Category Archives: 2019 Conference

Introducing the profit motive in Australian post-secondary education has been an abysmal failure. That’s the message from the recent research by Professor John Quiggin (School of Economics, University of Queensland, pictured left) in his Conversation article, “Why the profit motive fails in education” (10 December 2019), and presented at Read more

Almost 150 participants, speakers and sponsors attended CCA’s November annual conference at the Stamford Plaza in Brisbane last month. Highlights: CCA hosted a number of Australian political leaders: Assistant Minister for Vocational Education, the Hon Steve Irons MP (pictured), gave a special lunchtime address on day 1. Shadow Labor ministers for education...

Turning Australian vocational education and training (VET) into a market has disadvantaged learners in regional and rural Australia. While introducing “marketisation” (privatisation) competition into VET was meant to increase quality, responsiveness, efficiency, access and more equitable outcomes, the impact of competition has particularly disadvantaged regional and remote Australia, as well as disadvantaged learners generally. These are...

Community Colleges Australia (CCA) has announced the winners of this year’s Community Education Student of the Year Award. The winner of the 2019 Award is Carmel Kentwell (pictured left, and below), a student from Atwea College (formerly WEA Hunter), Newcastle. Carmel grew up in the NSW country town of Warren – northwest of Dubbo, and...

CCA’s conference in Brisbane next week will feature a noted research and analyst from Ernst & Young (EY), who will talk on the topic “Widening your lens: climate change, sustainability and risk”, with particular applicability to post-secondary education providers in the adult and community education and VET sectors.

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