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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The Australian Catholic Bishops’ Social Justice Statement for 2017–18, Everyone’s Business: Developing an Inclusive and Sustainable Economy, has been released. Each year the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference issues a major statement for the coming year, on Social Justice Sunday (the last Sunday in September). This year’s statement calls for “an...

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Community Colleges Australia (CCA) has called for a national training policy to get Australians back to work. “It’s time to get serious about reducing Australia’s unemployment rate,” Dr Don Perlgut, CCA CEO, has written in today’s blog post, entitled “Let’s Get Serious About Reducing Unemployment: We Need a National Training Policy that Gets...

This week, CCA CEO Dr Don Perlgut attended the TAFE Directors Australia (TDA) Conference in Adelaide, where he presented about leveraging economic development through VET. In this blog post, Don reflects on some of the messages arising from the conference. He observes that a while ago, Tim Costello (World Vision Australia CEO), proposed that...

The picture emerging from Community Colleges Australia’s (CCA’s) recent Annual Conference shows a community education sector exhibiting great innovation, flexibility and responsiveness, a real standard-bearer for ethical education with a high degree of professionalism. The sector manages to combine these attributes with a strong ability to work with vulnerable and disadvantaged Australians. Held in Melbourne...

Study overseas is a time-honoured way of extending life experiences as part of university education, and has more than quadrupled in the last ten years, with more than 38,000 Australian students participating each year. There is also some evidence that studying abroad helps an Australian university graduate obtain employment. The most popular...

The National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER) 2016 “Total VET Students and Courses” report (released 22 August 2017) shows a surprising – and very healthy – massive increase in activity for Australian community education organisations. The report estimates the number of community education provider students in 2016 at 378,900, more than doubling the percentage...