The Community Colleges Australia (CCA) Conference includes the most complete range of educational, resource and other organisational service providers ever featured at an Australian community education event: a record 17 organisations.
Platinum Sponsors
The Conference Platinum sponsor Coverforce Insurance Brokers manages the CCA CommunityGuard Group Insurance Scheme, which leverages competitive premiums for CCA members, tailored to meet the needs of our sector, eliminating unnecessary cover.
Joining Coverforce at the Conference is Ansvar Insurance, one of Australia’s most unique insurers, specialising in the community, care, education and faith sectors. Founded in 1887, Ansvar is an ethical insurer, with all available profits going to charitable causes through programs such as their community education program.
Community Education Student of the Year Award this year is supported by the NSW Government through the NSW Department of Industry. CCA thanks the Department for the support, which ensures that almost all community education student finalists will attend the Conference dinner.
Gold Sponsors
Hill Rogers is a Sydney CBD-based audit, assurance, tax, advisory and business solutions company that specialises in not-for-profit organisations, mergers and acquisitions and risk management. In addition to its charitable work, Hill Rogers partners with the St George Bank to produce a media industry economic update.
ish onCourse has created and manages a comprehensive online enrolment and marketing system for education providers – including a large number of CCA members. ish also specialises in modern, responsive website design that can be customised to user needs. Check out some of their clients.
The Learning Resources Group (TLRG) provides a number of solutions to Australian RTOs. TLRG conducts extensive outreach, frequently exhibiting at conferences. TLRG prides itself as the “one-stop shop” for educators, in relation to learning resources.
Silver and Welcome Drinks Sponsor
Audit Express: Audit Express is unique in the Australian VET service provider landscape. Principals Kevin Ekendahl (Managing Director) and Matthew Dale (Operations Manager) – who will both be at the Conference (Kevin is also presenting) – bring an unparalleled commitment to Australia’s not-for-profit community education providers. When you need them on your side, they are tough. Few private organisations can show as much commitment to Australia’s VET sector as Audit Express. CCA welcomes their continued support.
Silver Sponsors
Training Resource Solutions offers high quality training resources and assessment tools, all designed to save training organisations time, expense and frustration. Training Resource Solutions provides quality training resources and assessment tools in hospitality & tourism, business services, retail services, foundation skills and transport & logistics, to more than 170 Australian RTOs.
Rural Skills Australia: Given that Australia’s not-for-profit community education sector is over-represented in regional and rural Australia, Rural Skills Australia (RSA) – a not-for-profit organisation that works with the National Farmers’ Federation – is especially important. RSA fosters improved rural and related industry involvement in structured education and training, working with RTOs and industry bodies to support agriculture, horticulture and conservation land management training packages.
Watsonia Publishing is a leading producer of IT training courseware for educational institutions and training companies around the world, operating since 1993. The company offers printed course manuals and ebooks, full reproduction licences, courseware customisation and online courses.
Australia’s Copyright Agency is a not-for-profit organisation that provides simple licensing solutions to allow educational providers to use copyright-protected words and images. The Copyright Agency vision is for “a world that encourages and supports creativity, communication and learning.” They help to implement that vision by through their philanthropic Cultural Fund, providing grants to support writing, publishing and visual arts.
Canvas provides a cloud-based Learning Management System that makes teaching and learning easier, with tools designed to be used online, on mobile and on tablet… but mostly they're designed to be used. Read or watch their VET case studies or try out their apps.
Bronze Sponsors
CCA is thrilled to have the support of an unprecedented number of Bronze sponsors, including:
The VET Development Centre (VDC) – established by the Victorian Government – specialises in providing fee for service continuing professional learning webinars, workshops, and seminars well as customised consultancy to the Australian VET sector.
Total VET Solutions brings the largest RTO resources and licensed training resources store in Australia. The company offers customised course development and VET consultancy.
Cloud Assess uses the tagline “It's more than online assessment, it's a team dedicated to support you.” The company certainly is one of the “coolest” VET resource providers (see Indigo, the dog), designing software to “create”, “conduct” and “control”.
NSW IT Support is a Sydney-based IT company that offers IT, telecommunication, web development and IT procurement services for NSW businesses. Check out their cool, up-to-date blog, which covers topics such as how to buy a lap-top and tips to increase your Facebook fans.
Aspire Learning Resources is a not-for-profit company that specialises in developing competency-based training and assessment resources for VET. The company’s microlearning modules recently won the Educational Publishing Award in the TAFE and Vocational Education Teaching and Learning Resource. Aspire also offers grants through its foundation.
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