Community Education Conversations - A CCA Professional Development Event

When: Friday 12 May 2017 from 9.00 am (registration from 8.30 am) to 3.30 pm

Where: Rooftop Conference Room, 370 St Kilda Road, Melbourne

Our Sponsor and host: Audit Express

Topics and speakers:

• Setting the scene: Julie Neeson, Southern Grampians Adult Education and Community College
• Auditing in the new age – a presentation by Kevin Ekendahl, Audit Express
• Update on Skills First, by a representative of the VIC Department of Education and Training
• The special case for community education providers in rural and regional Australia: challenges and opportunities, Dr Don Perlgut, CCA CEO
• Community RTOs in Victoria: History, Scope, Scale, Success Factors and Prospects, By Dr Kaye Bowman, VET consultant & former Director of Research at NCVER
• Foundations Skills Training Package: where are the consultations up to? Have your say - a session with Tim Rawlins, PwC Skills for Australia
• What you need to know about the Commonwealth’s new VET Student Loans program, even if you will never use it
• Community education providers and local and regional economic development roundtable discussion – come prepared to share your experiences
• A new national community education infrastructure program – what’s happened since the last one in 2009?

Cost: Free