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Community Colleges Australia (CCA) has welcomed four new Directors to its Board. New Directors elected at the recent Annual General Meeting include Jennifer Aldred, Senior Manager, Finance and Funded Programmes at Sydney Community College; Valerieanne Byrnes, CEO of Port Macquarie Community College; Ron Maxwell, CEO of VERTO (and previously CEO of Western College, Dubbo);...

Australian community vocational education and training (VET) providers excel at bringing their graduates into employment. That’s the key message arising from the report Government-funded Student Outcomes 2017, released by the National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER). Australian community education providers have the highest increase of graduate employment, compared to graduates of TAFE and...

A professional forum organised by Community Colleges Australia (CCA) has highlighted the capacity that community colleges can play in meeting New South Wales regional economic development challenges. The Hon Ben Franklin MLC, Parliamentary Secretary for Northern New South Wales – representing the Deputy Premier of NSW, the Hon John Barilaro MP, opened the Forum, saying...

Funding cuts to TAFE systems have been highlighted on ABC TV News. Speaking on a national news broadcast on 22 October 2017, Australian vocational education and training (VET) expert Dr Leesa Wheelahan – now based in Canada at the University of Toronto – said:  "We're at a tipping point right. We can either save...

ABC TV’s 7.30 Report has featured a story on independent Australian high schools hosted by not-for-profit organisations. Entitled Schools Helping Children Who Don't Fit In, ABC TV broadcast the 7’13” story on Monday 16 October. Reporter Michael Atkin visited two Queensland independent high schools that focus on the needs of teenagers “who don’t fit in”:...

The self-styled “queen of capitalism”, Business Council of Australia (BCA) CEO Jennifer Westacott, says that providing the best education and training to Australians as a “moral imperative”. Speaking at the National Press Club on 11 October, Jennifer Westacott proposed a new tertiary education and training system “to prevent Australians falling through the cracks...