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Lifelong learning for
a fairer Australia

Lifelong learning for
a fairer Australia

Job Vacancy: Higher Education Trainer – Arnhem Land Progress Aboriginal Corporation

Higher Education Trainer – Full Time – Based in Galiwinku or Ramingining The Arnhem Land Progress Aboriginal Corporation You will be responsible for delivering academic language, digital literacy, and academic skills to support Yolngu students whilst empowering Yolngu mentors. You will strive to assist Yolngu students to improve their quality of life by enabling their […]

2020 Budget Letdown

At a time when Australia needs political courage to make the shift to a healthy, secure and sustainable future, we have instead a disappointing 2020 Federal budget relying heavily on tax cuts, the private sector and a gas lead recovery. While there are some spots of good news in the budget this year, there are […]

ALA webinar: Adults’ Lifelong Learning: the mediation of person + education + ‘community’

About this session As a means of advancing our understandings and practices as adult educators, this webinar explores how adults’ learning can be mediated by the interrelations amongst person + education + community. Certainly, we need more complete and comprehensive understandings of this phenomenon. What constitutes and supports adults’ learning across their lives for economic, […]

ALA webinar: Industry engagement for ACE RTOs delivering EAL and Foundation Skills qualifications

As a community-based registered training organisation (RTO) it’s important for your organisation to engage with industry to ensure your vocational qualifications are: keeping up to date with industry trends complying with RTO standards reflecting what is required by the industry.   To support ACE RTOs, Adult Learning Australia has convened a panel of stakeholders to […]

ALA LLN webinar: Validation of ACSF assessment resources

This webinar is for adult language, literacy and numeracy practitioners to come together and look at aspects of quality language, literacy and numeracy assessment. It provides an excellent opportunity to gain external validation of tasks mapped to the Australian Core Skills Framework (ACSF). About the ACSF The ACSF provides a validated framework of national benchmarks […]

ALA webinar: The Power and Potential of Adult Learning and Education in Changing Times

The Power and Potential of Adult Learning and Education in Changing Times A free webinar as part of Adult Learners’ Week – Celebrating 25 years Adult learning and education (ALE) is dynamic, it has a key role in solving some of the biggest challenges of our time. Social cohesion, health and wellbeing, digitalisation, equality, employment, […]

ALA Webinar: Building trauma informed supports in adult learning

This webinar is for adult educators who have experienced teaching to students living with trauma and PTSD. Share your experience This webinar is designed to gather experiences and professional insights from adult educators to assist in building stronger resources for teachers and the VET sector. The discussion will explore: students with trauma/PTSD and the statistics […]

Privilege and access

Catherine Deveny

Catherine Deveny, Author and comedian

Response to the Macklin Review

The Victorian Government has commissioned the Macklin Review into the post-secondary education and training to ensure the future prosperity of the State. Students’ futures depend on high-quality post- secondary education and training. The post-secondary education and training system depends on the capacity of providers to deliver quality learning within a stable and supportive policy environment. […]

Adult Learners Week 2020 national launch

Adult Learners Week 2020 Launch Join the conversation, as comedian and author Catherine Deveny explores stories of resilience and renewal through learning shared by our fantastic speakers. Guest speakers Shane Fitzsimmons – Former NSW Rural Fire Service Commissioner whose leadership guided NSW through one of the biggest natural disasters in our nation’s history. Sean Sweeney […]

ALA webinar: Lifelong learning: transitions, changes and learning across working life

Much is made of the importance of adults’ learning across adult life and, particularly, for work-related purposes. This is now seen as being both important and urgent as the requirements for work as well as social and cultural activities constantly change and the need to be employable over a longer portion of adult life and […]

The ‘gift’ of the pandemic

Assoc Prof Robbie Guevara

ALA webinar: The Little Things project

The Little Things project, which is led by the Farnham Street Neighbourhood Learning Centre in partnership with Meaningful Ageing Australia. The Little Things project is evidence-based training kit on intercultural communication built on authentic interactions between highly skilled PCAs from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds (CALD) backgrounds and older people who are accessing aged care. […]

God’s own country

Colin McGregor – ACE Aotearoa

Civil society voices demand a strong Ministerial Declaration and a systemic approach to the SDGs

ACED is part of the Education and Academia Stakeholder Group which is one of the Major Groups of Stakeholders (MGoS) that has issued the attached press release. Read more