About: Don Perlgut

A new report from Community Colleges Australia (CCA) shows how NSW adult and community education (ACE) providers consistently over-perform compared to other types of training providers, disproportionately catering for students from the state’s most disadvantaged groups and regions. On almost all tracked measures of vulnerability and disadvantage, not-for-profit NSW ACE providers reach these learners far...

CCA has released a summary of its achievements during 2022, when it reinforced its position and role as Australia’s leading advocate for the not-for-profit adult and community education (ACE) sector. (Download this report in PDF.)

Major Events

• A ground-breaking in-person conference in September – the first in three years – engaged many...

Australian adult and community education (ACE) providers have achieved the best results in bringing students from unemployment into employment, according to 2022 student outcomes data released by the National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER).  ACE providers have shown the greatest increase of adult students employed after training, compared to other vocational...

Byron Community College will establish a demonstration garden for sustainability and resilience near its headquarters in Mullumbimby. (Pictured at the garden site are Chantal Abouchar, College CEO, and Lauren O’Reilly, Permaculture Trainer.) The project will demonstrate idea and principles of how to create a sustainable and resilient garden in a small space. The mission will be...

The three CCA members which were heavily impacted by the February and March 2022 NSW north coast floods are now recovering from the experience. CCA CEO, Dr Don Perlgut, visited the three affected members in mid-December – ACE Community Colleges (based in Lismore), Byron Community College (Mullumbimby and Byron Bay) and North Coast Community College (Alstonville). The...

Community Colleges Australia (CCA) has requested changes to the selection criteria and processes of the NSW Government’s Smart and Skilled program expression of interest (EOI), to ensure the state’s not-for-profit (NFP) adult and community (ACE) providers will not be disadvantaged. About Smart and Skilled: The NSW Government’s Smart and Skilled program provides...