The Labor Shadow Minister for Skills Doug Cameron has re-stated Labor’s commitment to Australia’s community education providers.
In a speech earlier today – 13 April 2018 – to the AEU National TAFE Council, Senator Cameron said:
“The current vocational education and training system is flawed and it needs to be fixed – but the...
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New report on Australian education and inequality underlines the importance of focussing services on marginalised learners
Australia’s Public Education Foundation has released a major report that examines the price of educational inequality in Australia’s schools.
What Price the Gap? Education and Inequality in Australia, by the Foundation’s Executive Director David Hetherington examines educational inequality and its cost to Australia. The report estimates that over the six years from 2009...
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CCA releases Western Sydney Regional Economic Development Statement
Community Colleges Australia (CCA) has released a Statement on economic development in Western Sydney that shows the strong positive contributions that community colleges and other community education providers can make to the economic development of Western Sydney.
“This statement is timely, considering the recent release of the Western Sydney City...
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Reducing the Incarceration Rate of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples
The Australian Law Reform Commission (ALRC) has released its report Pathways to Justice–Inquiry into the Incarceration Rate of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples, which was tabled in Federal Parliament on 28 March 2018.
The purpose of the Inquiry was to inquire into the overrepresentation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in...
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American Community Colleges in the age of Trump, one year on – lessons for Australia
CCA CEO, Dr Don Perlgut, reports on the latest news from American community colleges and the American President:
When Donald J. Trump entered the White House in January 2017, American community colleges expressed cautious optimism: “Community colleges will finally get more of the attention they've been clamoring for,” wrote Claudio Sanchez.
The reason for...
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Productivity Commission releases final human services reform report
The Commonwealth Productivity Commission’s final report on Reforms to Human Services has just been released and uses the VET FEE-HELP program as a case study of policy failure, and the importance of good government stewardship.
The report states:
“In the VET system, reforms were not accompanied by adequate safeguards or oversight of providers. In 2012, the...
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