Category Archives: News

Community Colleges Australia calls for a dedicated NSW Board of Adult and Community Education

Community Colleges Australia (CCA) – the national peak organisation representing Australia’s not-for-profit community education providers – has released its NSW election policy platform with details of what the community education sector wants and needs for the sector and the state. (View the full Election Platform in html here or download a PDF here.) CCA...

March 1, 2019

Federal Labor releases terms of reference for proposed post-secondary inquiry

Federal Labor has released the terms of reference for its proposed Inquiry into Post-Secondary Education in Australia. In her speech to the Universities Australia conference in Canberra yesterday, Labor Deputy Leader and Shadow Minister for Education Tanya Plibersek spoke about Labor’s plans, if they win government. These...

March 1, 2019

NSW Election Watch: Education and Employment Precincts

CCA is monitoring relevant announcements by all political parties in New South Wales In the run-up to the election on 23 March 2019. Yesterday, the NSW Premier and NSW Treasurer announced plans for the “creation of an integrated Central Coast Education and Employment Precinct around a revitalised Gosford CBD with increased education...

February 27, 2019

NSW Election Watch: Nationals announce a regional youth policy

CCA is monitoring relevant announcements by all political parties in New South Wales In the run-up to the election on 23 March 2019. Earlier this week – as part of their campaign policy launch – the NSW Nationals announced a series of new initiatives, including a regional youth...

February 27, 2019

Latest from ASQA and TEQSA

Earlier this week, Mark Paterson AO (pictured), Chief Commissioner of ASQA (Australian Skills Quality Authority), gave an update on ASQA’s priorities, at an ACPET event in Sydney. CCA’s CEO, Dr Don Perlgut, was there and filed this report:

ASQA has a number of priority regulatory activities over the next two...

February 26, 2019

Australia’s National VET Review: The Story So Far

The National VET Review being conducted by Steven Joyce, former New Zealand Minister for Tertiary Education, Skills and Employment, has become a major platform for discussion on the future of VET. There has been some press commentary about the National VET Review which gives a good indication of where the Reviewer...

February 14, 2019