Community Colleges Australia (CCA) has partnered with Per Capita, a not-for-profit Australian think tank, to research the value of infrastructure investment in adult and community education (ACE) organisations.
Many Australian community education providers received funding from the Commonwealth Government in 2009/10 through the “Investing in Community Education and Training” (ICET) program,...
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For-Profit Australian VET Provider Update
Why won’t the issue of for-profit Australian vocational education and training (VET) go away, even with the long-awaited and much-welcomed replacement of the flawed loan program VET FEE-HELP with VET Student Loans?
CCA CEO, Dr Don Perlgut, addresses this question in his latest blog post on the CCA website.
Dr Perlgut notes that, “There is an...
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VET Student Loans Program Update
The first round of organisations approved to offer the Commonwealth’s new VET Student Loans program during the “transition period” (to 30 June 2017) includes four CCA members: Community College Gippsland, Kiama Community College, St George and Sutherland Community College and WEA Hunter. A small number of other not-for-profit organisations and associations have also been...
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CCA issues a call for presentations to the July Melbourne conference
CCA has issued its first “Call for Papers” for the annual conference, to take place in Melbourne from 25-27 July 2017. We are looking for innovative presentations and ideas that will engage the conference attendees, who will come from all around Australia and overseas. While we are interested in presentations that deal with the conference...
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Report calls for increased investment in community education to tackle disadvantage and unemployment in rural Australia
Australian governments should increase investment in community education to address higher levels of disadvantage and unemployment in rural and regional Australia, according to a new report from Community Colleges Australia (CCA).
The report, The Role of Community Education in Australian Regional and Rural Economic Development, finds that not-for-profit community-based vocational education and training (VET) providers...
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Education features in duelling National Press Club addresses by Prime Minister and Opposition Leader
Issues of education featured highly in the duelling National Press Club speeches last week by the Prime Minister and the Leader of the Opposition.
While Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull focussed the majority of his speech on macro-economic matters (on Wednesday 1 February), he did say that, “Now there is no better way to provide Australians...
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