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ALA Webinar: Managing Projects – Hints for Success
Presenter: Rosemary Sharman When: Wed 29 April @ 1pm AEST. This webinar will take you through the steps for managing projects and the basics of planning, monitoring and controlling them, […]
ALA LLN Webinar: Validating FSK Assessments
ALA LLN Webinar: Validating FSK Assessments. Returning in 2015 by popular demand, this webinar is for foundation skills practitioners to come together as a group to validate your assessment strategies […]
Save the Date: WAVE National Conference 2015
Women in Adult and Vocational Education announce their National Conference 2015, in partnership with Manufacturing Skills Australia. Wednesday 8 April 2015 (preceding the AVETRA Conference 9-10 April) Leaders, teachers, learners, […]
Learning on the road
Educational tourism is booming. But it’s not new in Australia’s adult education sector. The WEA in Adelaide and Sydney have a long history of offering courses where students travel with […]
What I’ve learned about Adult and Community Education in 2014
Our board members share their insights. Professor Barry Golding, President I’ve learned that the great work we are doing at ALA: our policies, publications and advocacy, are not only valuable […]
Are You SuperStream Ready?
Did you know employers typically spend at least 50-100 hours a year sorting out super contribution issues? Many employers are still paying their super funds by cheque. The federal government […]
ALA Webinar: Validating Assessment Strategies to the FSK
The introduction of the Foundation Skills Training Package (FSK) has provided practitioners with a framework of units of competency to support and complement a variety of training programs. This webinar […]
ALA webinar: Validating your LLN learning and assessment strategies
It’s validation time again! This webinar is for language, literacy and numeracy practitioners to come together as a group to validate your learning and assessment strategies to the Australian Core […]
Meet the Board : Cath Dunn
Cath Dunn has been an ALA Board member since 2012. She first came across ALA in 2000 in the course of her work with the WA Department of Training, where […]
Talking about suicide
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Christmas wishes for adult learners
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 […]
Hall of fame for adult educators
Los Angeles has Grauman’s Chinese theatre where Hollywood stars are celebrated on the footpath. Philadelphia celebrates baseball on its Wall of Fame. In Oklahoma, it’s leading adult educators who are […]