Need legal advice, graphic design skills, fundraising expertise, training and HR advice? Sometimes finding the right volunteers for the work that needs to be done in your organisation can be a challenge. Some of your volunteers are likely to be giving time to your organisation because they want to develop their own skills. Others might […]
Four days a week the large kitchen at Birallee Park Neighbourhood House (BPNH) is buzzing. On Mondays, it’s students from the Murray Valley Centre for Adults with a Disability, Wednesdays it’s VCAL students from a nearby high school who’ve come to learn hospitality skills and volunteer in their community, and on Thursday it’s a dedicated […]
In rural areas of Australia suicide rates are around double the national average. Inverell Community College, one and a half hours from Armidale in rural New South Wales, recently hosted a free community based education program to help prevent suicide among farmers. The program is known as SCARF which stands for Suspect, Connect, Ask, Refer […]
On Wednesday mornings the young mums start arriving around 9am, pushing prams, or carrying their babies into the Milligan Community Learning and Resource Centre in Bunbury, 180kms south of Perth. Kate Kelly, Co-ordinator of Nixi Teen and Young Mum’s Group is there to greet them. By ten past nine, after some singing and stories with […]
Learning to be a Lifelong Learner: Three Things I have Learnt This Australian College of Educators seminar will explore what it means to be a lifelong learner and will look at metacognition, self-directedness, information literacy and entrepreneurship, and whether these be measured, taught and developed. Presenter: Professor Michael Osborne, Chair — Adult & Lifelong […]
Lifelong Learning in Scotland and Contemporary Europe This Australian College of Educators seminar will examine the recent policy contexts in Scotland and the European Union, demonstrating the growing tension which exists between promoting lifelong learning for the needs of the economy and the broader goals of personal development, education for citizenship, and tackling social […]
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 […]
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 […]
The SA Government have developed a website to showcase the features of the National Foundation Skills Workforce Development Project. View the site here.
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 […]
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 […]
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.
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, […]
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 […]
2 day online conference for e-educators.
