CCA appeared in today’s edition (10 January 2017) of The Sydney Morning Herald letters page, under the title “Time to value education as investment, not commodity." The letter, from CCA CEO, Dr Don Perlgut, referred to an article by reporter Eryk Bagshaw about the coming closure of the private for-profit VET college, Australasian...
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Australian Government VET Student Loans Program Commences
The Australian Government’s new VET Student Loans program commenced on 1 January 2017, replacing the troubled and scandal-ridden VET FEE-HELP program.
CCA has welcomed the VET Student Loans program as bringing long-needed reforms to funding of VET students, but has noted that only a minority of community education providers utilised VET FEE-HELP, in...
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National Policy Direction on Vocational Education and Training Means that Community Education Loses Out
Australia's lack of a national VET policy means that community education will continue to lose out. The recent VET FEE-HELP reforms and replacement with VET Student Loans, while welcome, are not enough. Dr Don Perlgut, CEO of Community Colleges Australia, reports below.
“Contestability” in VET - A disaster for community education
History has not been kind to...
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