Adult education in 2020
Prof Stephen Billett – Griffith Uni
News
2020 ALA AGM
The 2020 ALA Annual General Meeting will be held on Friday 8 May 2020, 1.00pm AEST. This year’s AGM will present the 2019 Annual Report and announce the results of this year’s Board elections, via teleconference. All members are welcome…
Adult and Community Education Sector Welcomes Latest Victorian Skills Package
Adult and Community Education Victoria (ACEVIC), Neighbourhood Houses Victoria (NHVIC), Adult Learning Australia (ALA) and Community Colleges Australia (CCA) have welcomed the recent announcement of the ‘Skilling Up Victorians to Get Through COVID19’ package by the Victorian Premier, Daniel Andrews…
ADULT AND COMMUNITY EDUCATION (ACE) – CALL TO ACTION
ALA calls for the Australian Government to keep our adult and community education (ACE) sector alive so that it can continue to train, upskill and educate our communities, particularly disadvantaged and vulnerable groups and the newly unemployed. People with low…
COVID-19 and Adult Learning Australia
Due to the escalation of public health measures to prevent the spread of coronavirus (COVID-19), we have put arrangements in place to ensure our staff can work remotely and ensure our service to members and the adult learning community is…
AEGT 2020 conference – cancelled
Due to global concerns about the spread of COVID-19, the Adult Education in Global Times (AEGT2020) conference planned for 4 – 7 June in Vancouver has been cancelled. Read more here https://edst.educ.ubc.ca/aegt2020/
Smart Learning Cities Forum papers and presentations
A partnership event with Adult Learning Australia, RMIT and the Australian Learning Cities Network – 26 February 2020. The forum examined Smart City developments and linkages with Learning City approaches. Program Forum Bios Background paper Introduction Professor Mike Osborne City…
ALA Pre-Budget Submission 2020-21
The ALA Pre-Budget Submission makes 12 key recommendations to the Commonwealth government including outlining the case for a Lifelong Learning Policy and the need for a National Adult Literacy Strategy that prioritises language, literacy and numeracy in various contexts, including…
You’re invited to the Smart Learning Cities Forum
Australian Learning Communities Network, RMIT University and Adult Learning Australia are hosting the Smart Learning Cities forum.
For details: https://ala.asn.au/youre-invited-to-the-smart-learning-cities-forum/
Are you serious about adult learning?
2020 Nominations for the ALA Board are CLOSED Why nominate? As an ALA Board member, you will bring your energy, expertise and know-how to advance our mission of equitable access to lifelong and lifewide learning. You will also be actively…
Adult Learning Australia is seeking a Business Development Officer
ALA is offering an exciting opportunity for an experienced individual who can work in a fast-paced community environment to help generate new and sustainable business opportunities for both ALA and our newly formed Foundation, Learning Changes Lives. You will need…
Adult Learning Australia Statement on the Australian Bushfires
Adult Learning Australia (ALA) acknowledges the devastating impact the Australian bushfires have had and are still having on our community, ecology and economy. People have perished, businesses, homes and stock have been lost, and more than 1 billion wildlife are…
Submission to the Australian Government regarding the National Agreement for Skills and Workforce Development (NASWD)
Submission to the Australian Government regarding the National Agreement for Skills and Workforce Development (NASWD) Adult Learning Australia (ALA) and Neighbourhood Houses Victoria submission into the National Agreement for Skills and Workforce Development. The review of the Agreement examines how…
New issue of Australian Journal of Adult Learning out now!
Volume 59, Number 3, November 2019 Close, yet so far apart: Bridging social movement theory with popular education Kai A. Heidemann Learning by participating in social movements: Ethnographic research in Madrid (Spain) Héctor S. Melero & Inés Gil-Jaurena Here we…
Clever countries look beyond the usual suspects
We should be a clever country but some of us are not getting a ‘fair go’. Despite the increasingly fashionable use of the term ‘lifelong learning’ in everything from discussions of kindergartens to higher education, we seem to have conveniently…
ALA Podcast: What is good governance?
Good governance is all about setting up effective processes to make and implement decisions. It’s important for community-based not for profits to have the strategies they need to ensure good governance processes are in place. In this session, our facilitator…
ALA Podcast: Show me the money – winning grants applications
This webinar is for ACE Providers and practitioners looking for alternate revenue streams. Find out what’s out there and how it could fund your idea, by spending an hour with Keith Whelan, the Grants Guy. Think fundraising, grants, crowd-sourcing –…
Adult and Community Education (ACE) Sector Statement – Victoria
Adult and community education peak bodies – Adult and Community Education Victoria (ACEVic), Neighbourhood Houses Victoria (NHV), Adult Learning Australia (ALA) and Community Colleges Australia (CCA) welcome The Future of Adult and Community Education in Victoria 2020-2025 Ministerial Statement which…
Media release: Victorian Government recognises the essential role of adult and community education
Adult Learning Australia, the national peak body for adult community education (ACE), welcomes the Victorian Government’s commitment to ACE through a Ministerial Statement that acknowledges its transformative power and unique strengths. In launching the Ministerial Statement on the Future of…
ALA podcast: Social procurement – A great opportunity for new and existing social enterprises
About this podcast Social procurement is a rapidly emerging opportunity for social enterprises to start, grow and scale their businesses and their social impact. In 2017, Social Traders worked with 15 corporate and government buyers to support their procurement teams…
