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Lifelong learning for
a fairer Australia

Lifelong learning for
a fairer Australia

Forum: Learning, health and wellbeing across generations

  Presented by Adult Learning Australia in partnership with Brotherhood of St Laurence, Centre for Adult Education and Federation University This half-day forum was underpinned and informed by a major challenge in an ageing society, drawn from a recent, major UK meta-analysis of international literature on learning and wellbeing. It was, in essence, about staying well […]

ALA webinar: Validating your LLN learning and assessment strategies

It’s validation time again! This webinar is for our language, literacy and numeracy practitioners to come together as a group to validate their learning and assessment strategies to the Australian Core Skills Framework (ACSF). This session is all about collaboration and peer appraisal. The structure for this webinar involves participants sharing one small teaching or […]

Foundation Skills Workforce Development Project

The SA Government have developed a website to showcase the features of the National Foundation Skills Workforce Development Project. View the site here.

2014 Excellence in Language, Literacy and Numeracy Practice Award

Apply Now The Australian Training Awards are the peak, national awards for the vocational education and training (VET) sector, recognising individuals, businesses and registered training organisations for their contribution to skilling Australia. For the second year running, the Australian Training Awards will present the Excellence in Language, Literacy and Numeracy Practice Award. The Excellence in Language, Literacy […]

ALA forum: From LLN to Foundation Skills

Adult Learning Australia, in partnership with the Victorian Adult Literacy and Basic Education Council (VALBEC), held a forum at the State Library of Victoria Conference Centre. The forum explored different perspectives on national policy designed to improve adult literacy and numeracy. It also looked at the relationship between the foundation skills strategy, workforce participation, employability […]

AVETRA Conference

  Adult Learning Australia is partnering with AVETRA to provide an adult learning stream within the AVETRA conference to be held on the 22nd – 24th April, 2014 on the Gold Coast. Read more here.    

ALA webinar: Starting out with solar pv

You’ve made the decision to go solar now it’s time for the hard bit – choosing the right system and supplier. It’s important to take a lot of care when shopping for a solar power system. You need to be aware of what you are buying and who you are dealing with. In this webinar, […]

ALA webinar: Employing people with disability

This webinar introduces trainers, workplace support people and managers to techniques and strategies that can lead to positive employment outcomes for students with cognitive disability. In this session, Judy Buckingham from ACE DisAbility will cover: the employer perspective recruitment and job descriptions how people learn the impacts of disability on learning learning techniques fitting in […]

Oz eLive 2014

2 day online conference for e-educators.

Showing and telling – the Men’s Shed crawl

Australian and international delegates from the 5th National Men’s Shed conference took to the road to study the secrets of the success of the Men’s Shed movement. It was early morning and a convoy of cars drove through the streets of Ballarat. The Men’s Shed crawl had started. Around 50 people had car pooled and […]

Bridging the digital divide

Across the country Australians are being offered free tools and training to help them get online. Think about all the things you do in a day – both at work and at home – that involve using digital technology. You send emails with attachments, you post photos and share news with family and friends on […]

ALA webinar: Understanding Facebook’s formula

Many ACE providers already understand the potential benefits of Facebook to their organisation. In this session, we look at how to use this platform in the most effective way. In this jam packed hour focussed on Facebook strategy you will learn and understand: where Facebook sits in the social media mix the formula behind Facebook […]

Putting your website to work

    You probably invest time and effort in making sure your building looks welcoming and inviting and your staff are friendly and professional.  But can you say the same about your website? Here’s our tips for making your website pull its weight when it comes to making a positive and lasting impression.    1. […]

Social Inclusion in Learning Conference

  As part of Social Inclusion Week 2013, the Centre of Adult Education (CAE) in partnership with Adult Learning Australia organised a conference for over a hundred people at the State Library Victoria to consider the following questions. What does social inclusion in learning mean? How can we respond to the challenge of creating new […]

Celebrating a century of workers’ education

  A one hundredth birthday is worth celebrating and the Workers’ Education Association (WEA) have made a great job of it in 2013 with the centenary of the organisation’s arrival in Australia. In 1913, horses and carts were still a common sight in Sydney’s streets. Adelaide was scandalised by the arrival of a new dance […]