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.
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
If the government could give adult learners one thing for Christmas, what would it be? Our new ALA board has lots of suggestions. Professor Barry Golding I’d like to see a concerted all-of-government effort to support and facilitate learning across all ages and for multiple benefits and purposes. There is a need for something aside […]
Bianca Murray Bianca Murray has discovered a passion for cabinet making. Karren Duri has realised how much she wants to be an electrician. And Maria Polodonis has a real gift when it comes to working under car bonnets. All three are recent graduates from Thornbury Neighbourhood House’s ‘Women in Trades and Technologies’ course. Co-ordinator Sarah Derum […]
It’s a wet and windy spring morning in Melbourne’s CBD. A group of young people are battling the wild weather and pasting sheets of paper to a brick wall opposite a busy exit from Flinders Street Station. Several sheets later, a pair of eyes stare out from the wall, then a nose is added – […]
