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In the following opinion piece, CCA's CEO Dr Don Perlgut, advocates that VET trainers of aged care, disability and foundation skills need to receive vaccination priority status.

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Certain Australian vocational education and training (VET) teachers need to receive priority status as Australia commences its vaccination roll-out next month. The success...

Community Colleges Australia (CCA) has released its Year in Review achievements during 2020.

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During a very challenging year, CCA successfully adapted to the arrival of the Coronavirus pandemic, moving professional development, member engagement, representation and advocacy to online and virtual platforms, underpinned by a new brand and logo. We obtained $2 million...

The NSW Auditor has found TAFE’s commercial purpose has “conflicted with legislated social objectives” of ensuring access by the state’s disadvantaged communities and groups. This is one of the main conclusions of a report by the NSW Audit Office into the “One TAFE” modernisation program. The Report also notes that the TAFE Act “defines...

Forced online learning in the age of COVID-19 has presented significant challenges to VET and university learners in Australia and overseas.  Literacy and numeracy: The Reading Writing Hotline has released its report on Online Learning and Digital Isolation during COVID-19: The report concludes that with cessation of face-to-face...

Investing in Australian adult and community education (ACE) provider infrastructure makes economic sense, as Australia struggles to recover and emerge from the economic downturn caused by the Coronavirus epidemic. That’s the conclusion CCA draws from recent research by the Australia Institute (TAI), which published its paper Design Principles for Fiscal Policy...