Education and Training

As parents spend big for the new academic year, Victoria’s peak social advocacy body is warning high back-to-school costs are

We're helping train young job seekers for long and rewarding careers in Victoria’s booming community sector.

VCOSS is urging the State Government to take significant steps to ease the financial burden for school families.

VCOSS blasts plan for more school expulsions in Victoria

Victorian teachers, students, principals, schools and community workers are launching a campaign to make inclusive education a top-tier election issue.

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VCOSS is warning Victorians to be alert to a series of price hikes due to take effect in 2017. The cost

An alliance of Victorian social advocacy groups has produced a plan to drive better student engagement, reduce school drop outs

The Victorian Government is being urged to abolish a series of Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal (VCAT) fees which serve

The rising use of technology in the classroom and an increasingly competitive school system is adding significant costs to families’

Reports that Victoria is the most expensive place in Australia to educate a child in a government school shows the

Any overhaul of Victoria’s Vocational Education and Training sector should support students with higher needs and disadvantaged learners, and invest

Too many Victorian school students with disability and additional health and development needs are being left out by a support

The Victorian Council of Social Service today welcomed the significant education funding commitments made by the Andrews Government, delivering on

A State Government report has found broad community consensus that too many young people from disadvantaged backgrounds are missing out

A first of its kind for the Victorian community sector, the RMIT-VCOSS PhD Scholarship aims to strengthen the community sector’s

A scathing report into the true costs of schooling reveals Victorian families are struggling to pay for items and activities