Community Colleges Australia (CCA) has provided a submission to the Australian Government Department of Education and Training on the new VET Student Loans program. This program was passed at the last day of 2016 Parliamentary sitting – Thursday 1 December – and is due to go into effect on 1 January 2017, one...
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NSW Minister for Skills John Barilaro CCA Conference Opening Address Highlights
The Hon. John Barilaro MP, NSW Minister for Skills (now Deputy Premier, Minister for Regional Development, Minister for Skills and Minister for Small Business) gave the Opening Address at the CCA Annual Conference on 19 October 2016. CCA has now uploaded the audio and the transcript of the Minister’s speech.
The following...
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CCA Releases audio, video and transcripts from the Sydney Conference
CCA has released audio, video and transcripts from its national conference held in Sydney in October. The following video files are now available:
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- Conference Dinner and Innovation Award Prize-Giving to ACE Community Colleges, Lismore for its program “Licensed and on the Road”, which offers free driving lessons to Aboriginal people in New South...
CCA Sydney Conference News Coverage
CCA’s successful October conference was covered by mainstream and social media stories:
The Hon John Barilaro MP on Twitter (John Barilaro is Leader of the NSW Nationals, Deputy Premier of NSW, Minister for Regional Development, Minister for Skills, Minister for Small Business, Member for the Monaro): “Great to talk about the fantastic work community colleges...
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Community Colleges Australia welcomes two new Board Directors
Community Colleges Australia (CCA) has welcomed two new members to its Board of Directors. Danielle Bensley, CEO of The Parramatta College, and Theresa Collignon, CEO of Macquarie Community College, were both elected to the CCA Board at the Annual General Meeting (AGM) held in late October.
At the AGM, CCA Chair (and CEO of WEA Illawarra)...
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Wisdom from Star Wars at CCA’s Annual Conference
Monica Laurence, founder of Turtle Talks and former Head of Strategic Development for Lucasfilm in California, gave last month’s CCA conference closing address. In her talk, following the conference’s movie theme, she drew from the wisdom of Yoda (“Star Wars”), and has posted the following summary on her Facebook page:
Last month I gave...
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