Category Archives: 2019 Conference

An international community engagement specialist will speak at CCA’s annual conference in November. Dr Wendy Sarkissian (pictured), who is based in Vancouver, Canada, will travel to Brisbane to speak at the conference on the topic of “The Fearless Community Engagement Practitioner”. Dr Sarkissian spent many years working in Australia, including running...

A French-Canadian community college leader will give a keynote speech and workshop on how to encourage innovation in post-secondary education at CCA’s upcoming annual conference in Brisbane in November. André Gobeil (pictured), Director General of Cegep de Chicoutimi in Quebec Canada, has worked in the field of innovation for several years, facilitating events at...

A Northern Territory vocational education and training (VET) expert will use big data to explore the impact of marketisation on the sector, at CCA’s upcoming Brisbane conference, 19-20 November. Dr Don Zoellner (pictured), a former Pro Vice Chancellor at Charles Darwin University, will expand on Professor John Quiggin’s...

In each of the past two conferences, CCA’s evening entertainment has featured a noted Australian comic. But this year’s conference in Brisbane is different: Mandy Nolan, whose writing was called (by The Sydney Morning Herald) “Australia’s wittiest comedic columnist”, will not only provide entertainment at the Conference Dinner on 19^th November, she...

An internationally famous Australian economist will headline of CCA’s Brisbane conference keynote addresses. Professor John Quiggin (pictured), an Australian Laureate Fellow in Economics at the University of Queensland, will give a keynote presentation on the failures of Australian vocational education and training (VET) policy. Professor Quiggin is one of Australia’s most outspoken...

Community Colleges Australia (CCA) has offered a “sneak peek” at what’s in store for its November conference in Brisbane. CCA has released the names and details of 16 speakers and 11 conference exhibitors. “Every CCA conference is the place to go for Australia’s adult and community education providers – and for those...