Category Archives: NSW Election

The new NSW Labor Opposition Leader Jodi McKay has announced her shadow cabinet, which includes a number of changes relevant to adult and community education providers:

• Lakemba MP Jihad Dib (pictured), a former Sydney secondary school principal who had previously held the education role, picks up responsibility...

The NSW Government’s new ministry has been announced, and features Dr Geoff Lee (pictured) as the Minister for Skills and Tertiary Education, with responsibility for the state’s adult and community education providers. Dr Lee, the Member for Parramatta in Sydney’s west, and replaces the Hon John Barilaro, Deputy Premier, who retains the...

Community Colleges Australia (CCA) has outlined an ambitious plan for the next term of the returning NSW Government. This plan supports the work of the state’s adult and community education providers and will ensure that the state’s education and training system achieves its full potential, especially for the most vulnerable and...

With the NSW electorate going to the polls tomorrow, surveys show the NSW Government and the Labor Opposition locked in a 50-50 battle. In other words, it's "too close to call". Additional major party statements on approaches to the state's not-for-profit community education providers are now available, courtesy of Read more

Community Colleges Australia CEO, Dr Don Perlgut, writes the following analysis of one aspect of the NSW state election: Why has universal support for TAFE become a major feature of this week’s New South Wales state election? Community Colleges Australia (CCA) has reviewed and analysed the vocational education and training policies of all major political parties –...

It’s looking like a “TAFE bidding war” between the current NSW Government and the NSW Labor opposition. The latest additions is a promise by the NSW Nationals to build six more TAFE campuses across regional NSW: in Byron Bay, Cobar, Hay, Jindabyne, Nambucca Heads and West Wyalong, in addition to those campuses previously...