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Community Colleges Australia (CCA) has released a discussion paper on the role that Australian adult and community education (ACE) providers can play in sustaining Australian democracy and supporting civil society. CCA prepared the paper as a submission to the Australian Senate’s Legal and Constitutional Affairs References Committee Inquiry...

Australian vocational education and training (VET) graduates who study with not-for-profit community education providers continue to top the national figures in their move from unemployment to employment. The latest figures, released by the National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER) in the VET Student Outcomes 2019 report (December 2019), show that the...

CCA had an extremely busy year in 2019: view the 2019 CCA achievements infographic in PDF here or below. Aside from our successful national conference – with a record participation by seven Australian political leaders from local, state and Federal governments, and more than 150 participants, speaker and...

Funding for vocational education and training (VET) is at its lowest level in more than a decade and Australia risks failing to properly provide the high-quality training for the 45% of new jobs needing VET qualifications that will be created in the next five years. That’s the message from the Australian Investment...

Community Colleges Australia (CCA) wishes all of its members, friends and supporters seasons greetings and best wishes for the new year 2020. “It is a valuable time to remember the important role that Australian community education providers have played in adult education. Some of our members have served their communities since 1913, the year Australian Workers...