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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 is...

NSW Labor – in the run-up to the March 23^rd election – has promised a 10-year plan to provide 600,000 students with free TAFE courses in a bid to reduce skill shortages. The Sydney Morning Herald reported today (11 February) that, “The state’s independent Parliamentary Budget Office has put the cost of the...

St George Sutherland Community College, located in Sydney’s southern suburbs, celebrated its 40^th year, in an event at Cronulla on 6 February 2019. The day’s events included an inspiring speech by College CEO, Patricia Carroll, who said that, “One thing that has remained constant throughout the college journey is that...

The Community Colleges Australia (CCA) submission to the Australian Government’s Expert Review of the VET Sector highlights the important contributions that not-for-profit community education providers make to Australian post-secondary education. Key points of the CCA submission: VET Sector and Community Education

• In 2017, 442 not-for-profit community education providers delivered training...

The national VET regulator, the Australian Skills Quality Authority (ASQA) has cancelled a number of private college registrations and also assisted police in the arrest of three former college staff. Eight private for-profit colleges have had their accreditation cancelled in ASQA’s decisions announced on 2 January 2019:

• Lianrick Pty Ltd, trading as Advanced Careers College
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Community Colleges Australia (CCA) has published an article by Libby Waring, Principal of City East College (Bondi NSW), about how to go about maximising search engine optimisation (SEO) of your website. She writes: There are few businesses who wouldn’t want to increase their online discoverability. After all, in the big wide...