ACE Vic

Adult and Community Education Victoria Inc. Representing Community Managed Providers of Adult Education

ACEVic’s Key Policy Position on Victorian Adult Community Education needs

In the lead-up to the 2010 Victorian Election, ACEVic has developed a series of papers highlighting what ACEVic’s members want to guide reform on the key issues facing Victorian Adult Community Education. The key policy is One Vision, One Voice through:

  • ACE providing Victorian learning that is client-focused and competitive.
  • ACE, a provider of choice that delivers high quality cost effective education, training and lifelong learning.
  • Valuing the significant contribution by ACE to social inclusion for disengaged and vulnerable Victorian learners.
  • Diverse communities strengthened through adult community education.

ACEVic’s Key Message is to remain competitive and we need renewed commitment from the next State Government to raise the profile of ACE and resourcing to make ACE providers more competitive to actively engage and strengthen Victorian communities.

Distribute and forward  One Vision, One Voice widely. If we do not take the opportunity to have our message heard then we may miss the opportunity to remain competitive.

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COAG Ministerial Declaration on ACE

First Some History:

In 1997, MCEETYA (the Ministerial Council for Employment, Education, Training and Youth Affairs) released the National Policy on Adult and Community Education to provide a framework for government activity to recognise and support adult community education. In July 2001, Ministers asked the Adult Community Education Taskforce to review this policy to ensure that the ACE sector is well placed to maximise its contribution to the national education and training effort.

The taskforce developed a Ministerial Declaration on Adult Community Education, which was endorsed by State, Territory and Commonwealth ministers at the 13th MCEETYA meeting in July 2002. 

The 2002 Ministerial Declaration on ACE was reviewed in 2007.  ACEVic 
provided a response to this review on behalf of its members.
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2008 COAG Declaration on ACE
This new statement supercedes the previous 2002 Declaration. It is designed to inform the policies and actions of all Australian State and Territory governments and the Commonwealth Government. A full copy of the Declaration is available here.
ACE is a unique field in that it sits in both the education and training and the community sectors. It is concerned with not just supporting individuals with skill development, but with empowering and developing communities. ACEVic values the recognition in the Declaration of this dual role. The Declaration identifies that ACE contributes to COAG’s productivity and workforce skills agendas and also to the Federal Government’s Social Inclusion policy.
The Declaration identifies the unique opportunties for ACE to deliver vocational education and training to individuals, while at the same time acknowledging the important role of ACE in building community capacity and encouraging social cohesion.
ACE varies widely from state to state with Victoria frequently acknowledged as the leader in fostering its development. Despite different approaches, the COAG Declaration indicates a shared view of its value and potential amongst all Australian governments, which bodes well for the future development of the sector.
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ACEVic Position on Securing a Job for Your Future: Skills for Victoria

The Victorian Government’s Review of the vocational education and training system has now been announced. This is one of the most radical shake-ups of funding to hit the sector in a long time. Please read ACEVic’s response to the package as well as our media release.

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Review of the Language, Literacy and Numeracy Program

ACEVic recently prepared a response to the Discussion Paper on the Language, Literacy and Numeracy program.  While only a small percentage of ACEVic members are involved in the delivery of this program, in earlier incarnations, this was a major source of activity for many providers. The introduction of price based competitive tendering, and the huge size of the regions covered by the program, has meant that less and less ACE providers have taken part in a program which is closely aligned to our core business of providing training to educationally disadvantaged people.  Read our submission below.

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