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NEW BILL TO PROVIDE INCREASED FUNDING OF $112.6 MILLION FOR AUSTRALIAN TECHNICAL COLLEGES
December 7, 2006
The Australian Minister for Vocational and Technical Education, the Hon Gary Hardgrave MP, today introduced the Australian Technical Colleges (Flexibility in Achieving Australia’s Skills Needs) Amendment Bill (No. 2) 2006 into Parliament.
The Bill will provide [...]

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AUSTRALIAN APPRENTICESHIP NUMBERS CONTINUE TO GROW
December 11, 2006
The Australian Minister for Vocational and Technical Education, the Hon Gary Hardgrave MP, said that National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER) statistics provide evidence that the Australian Government’s initiatives in encouraging people to take up training opportunities, particularly in the trades, are working.
A report released today [...]

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2006 HUMAN RIGHTS MEDAL AND AWARDS - WINNERS AND HIGHLY COMMENDED
The winners of the 2006 Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission’s (HREOC) Human Rights Medal and Awards were presented on Thursday, 7 December 2006, during a luncheon ceremony at the Sheraton on the Park Hotel in Sydney.
Media personality Julie McCrossin was MC at the awards [...]

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Presentation proposals are being accepted for the 5th Annual Illinois Online Conference (IOC) for Teaching and Learning. Featured speakers include Tony Bates, Margaret Maag, Chip Banks and Jonathan Finkelstein. For more information, go to our website at
http://www.ilonlineconf.org
Submissions will be accepted through December 13, 2006. The conference will be held February 14-16, 2007. Please submit your [...]

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Literacy experts from 17 countries attended a meeting in Hamburg from the 27 -29 November to exchange innovative pedagogical approaches to literacy and how these approaches are transferred into practice.
Among the trends identified were:
- the growing convergence of different literacy approaches on the need for flexibility, learner-centredness, the need of welltrained facilitators and eclectic use [...]

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A master class will be led by Sam Galea, Executive Coach, Coachabilityon 26 -27 February 2007 at Quay West Sydney.
For more details visit the website http://www.arkgroupaustralia.com.au/events-elearning.htm

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Adult Education Tasmania State Manager Grag Peart has been unanimously elected as President of Adult Learning Australia.
Mr Peart replaces Garry Traynor, Principal of Sydney Community college as the head of our national peak body for adult learning in Australia.
Mr Peart said that across the country there is excellent work being done by ACE providers in [...]

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Call for Papers  
 International Researching Work and Learning Conference RWL5 
2 – 5 December 2007,
Cape Town, South Africa 
 
We invite you to diarise the RWL5 conference and submit abstracts for consideration for papers, symposia and posters.  Please note that the closing date for submissions will be 15 May 2007. 
 
The RWL5 conference is being held for the first [...]

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