The college has run the aged care course since 1999 with completion rates in the 99 percentile.

The college usually gets funding for 10 people to complete their studies.

But under the new Smart and Skilled program, the college was allocated no funding for the aged care course and only the equivalent of four places for its child services training.

"Aged care is such a big program for us, especially on the Tomaree where there is an ageing population," Tomaree Community College chief executive officer Ella Clarke said.

"We definitely did not get as much funding as anticipated. We are doing everything we can to try and get funding so courses can run in 2015."

The college will still be able to accept paid enrolments and there is access to funding for people with disabilities, indigenous heritage or those from disadvantaged communities.

A meeting of Hunter registered training organisations was held at Warners Bay on Monday to discuss the impact of the program and call for a review of its implementation.

The Labor candidate for Port Stephens Kate Washington said: "Across the state we've seen training organisations with a history of achieving great outcomes, lose funding to deliver much-needed vocational training.

"It makes no sense whatsoever, that a terrific training organisation like the Tomaree Community College should lose its funding to deliver aged care and children's services training in circumstances when that's where our local skills shortages are," she said.