Community Colleges Australia (CCA) is thrilled that last weekend’s New South Wales cabinet reshuffle has resulted in an Assistant Minister for Skills, the Hon Adam Marshall MP, Member for Northern Tablelands. There is now a second minister in the portfolio – assisting Deputy Premier the Hon Barilaro MP, who is also...
Read more
About: Don Perlgut
Recent Posts by Don Perlgut
More bad news for Australia’s private for-profit higher education sector
There’s more bad news for Australia’s private for-profit higher education sector. CCA’s CEO, Dr Don Perlgut, reports below:
Read more
*****
Earlier this month of January, the Australian Government Department of Education and Training released its report Completion Rates of Higher Education Students: Cohort Analysis, 2005-2014. A great deal of attention has been paid to how...The new American President – what impact?
CCA CEO, Dr Don Perlgut, has published a blog post entitled “Australian VET in the age of Trump,” on the CCA website.
In the article, Don Perlgut speculates on what impact the new US President will have on Australian vocational education and training (VET). He notes the differences between the US and Australian educational systems,...
Read more
Make Education an Investment not a Commodity – CCA in The Sydney Morning Herald
CCA appeared in today’s edition (10 January 2017) of The Sydney Morning Herald letters page, under the title “Time to value education as investment, not commodity." The letter, from CCA CEO, Dr Don Perlgut, referred to an article by reporter Eryk Bagshaw about the coming closure of the private for-profit VET college, Australasian...
Read more
Australian Government VET Student Loans Program Commences
The Australian Government’s new VET Student Loans program commenced on 1 January 2017, replacing the troubled and scandal-ridden VET FEE-HELP program.
CCA has welcomed the VET Student Loans program as bringing long-needed reforms to funding of VET students, but has noted that only a minority of community education providers utilised VET FEE-HELP, in...
Read more
CCA Extends Overseas Community College Networks to Malaysia and USA
Community Colleges Australia (CCA) has extended its overseas networks in Malaysia and the USA.
In early January, CCA’s Chair, David Fuller (also CEO of WEA Illawarra), met with the Director General of Malaysia’s Department of Community College Education, YBhg. Dato' Amir Bin Noor, and a number of his senior directors at the Ministry of Education...
Read more
Recent Comments by Don Perlgut
No comments by Don Perlgut yet.