Adult Learning Australia is running a 2-day Bootcamp on financial advice for extreme times. Are U Ready – Surviving Small Business Disaster Day 2 Wednesday 8th April 2020 @ 1pm AEST The second webinar session is based on the dual Award winning book Are U Ready…surviving small business disaster that offers insight into the 3 […]

Adult Learning Australia is running a 2-day Bootcamp on financial advice for extreme times.   5 Steps to Ensuring Business Success in Extreme Times Day 1 Tuesday 7th April 2020 @ 1pm AEST This webinar session provides an overview of the current Covid-19 impacts on running a business and then discusses how to prepare that […]

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 level language, literacy, numeracy and digital skills will be most impacted at this time. Media […]

Effective testing underpins the successful delivery of language, literacy and numeracy learning programs, yet it is often poorly implemented. At this webinar, Rachel will highlight how the Australian Core Skills Framework (ACSF) provides a contemporary structure for the identification of LLN needs and how it can be used as a framework for contextualising learning and […]

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/

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 of Wyndham City of Melton ALA paper Summary 

This webinar explores the key ingredients that make for an engaging learning environment, including ensuring relevance, focussing on growth and progress rather than just achievement, building a positive learning culture and developing learner’s self-efficacy At the end of this session, you will have practical strategies to design engaging learning programs and experiences. About our presenter […]

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 the workplace. Read more .  

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/

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 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 to demonstrate a successful track record in business development, be articulate, self motivated and professional. […]

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 estimated dead, with many more injured or left starving.   ALA extends its sympathy to […]

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 well the Australian, State and Territory governments have achieved their goals for the vocational education […]

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 stand: The pedagogy of Occupy Wall Street Darren Webb Learning in social movements: Emotion, identity […]

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 forgotten that many Australians have no current prospect of enrolling in TAFE or university. With […]