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CCA recently hosted South Korea researchers visiting Australia, who are studying lifelong and adult education.  Dr Hye-Sook Lee from The Seoul Institute and Yong-Moon Jung (Faculty of Education & Social Work, University of Sydney) met with Evelyn Goodwin, CCA’s Manager of VET Policy and Programs, on 29 October 2016. During the meeting, Evelyn provided an overview...

Community Council for Austrlia Chair Tim Costello launched the first report or AusWeWant on 27 October 2016 - the first ever benchmark of how Australia, and each State and Territory, is performing against values prioritised by leaders in the charities and not for profit sector.   You can read the report here....

Evelyn Goodwin, Manager, VET Policy and Projects, looks forward after the CCA 2016 Annual Conference...

Community Colleges Australia (CCA) is pleased to announce the winners of the 2016 Community Education Innovation Prize, recognising the leading programs in Australia’s community education sector. ACE Community Colleges took out the 2016 prize for their program “Licensed and on the Road”, which offers free driving lessons to Aboriginal people in Lismore NSW. The lessons are delivered...

A new era has begun for VET FEE-HELP, the highly troubled Commonwealth Government loans scheme for vocational education and training (VET) students.  It’s called “VET Student Loans”, and it replaces VET FEE-HELP, as announced by Senator the Hon Simon Birmingham, Minister for Education and Training on 5 October 2016. “The new VET Student Loans...