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The Yapeneyepuk -Worawa Indigenous Education Conference will be held in Melbourne 27 -28 May.
More information about the Conference with its associated forums and workshops can be found at www.cso.edu.au.

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Professor Victoria Carrington discusses some of the diverse and exciting texts and literacies that are emerging around new technologies and discusses the tensions that come into play as young people adopt and employ them.
This interview will be available online mid-week of the week beginning 05 february - www.taketimeradio.com

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All parties interested in the way roots, soil and the things that live amongst them interact in agricultural systems are invited to attend the lectures and discussions to be held until 3 February at the CSIRO’s Black Mountain site.
Further information can be found at www.csiro.au/csiro/content/event/pe5a.html

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The following Quality courses will be offered in 2007:
- Grad Cert in Community Service Quality Improvement
- Diploma in Business Quality Auditing
- Internal Quality Auditing
- Continuous Quality Improvement
- Risk Management
For further information, go to www.distss.org.au

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Friday 23 February 2007
9.00am -4.30pm
Telstra Dome, Melbourne
This Conference and the Local Government Masterclass to be held on Thursday 22 February will benefit local, state and federal government grant managers and funders and all those responsible for managing, implemanting, overseeing or assessing grants programs.
Keynote Speakers include: Leslie Riggs, Executive Director, AusLink (DOTARS) and Jacqui Thomson, Director of [...]

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The Australian Governement will support six LASP (Linkage Learned Academies Special Projects) beginning in 2007 with funding of $502,000 over three years.
This will increase funding into research into the solar system, biofuels, nonatechnology, professional development for early career researchers, humanities infrastructure and creativity and innovation.

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Two day dementia- specific workshops for Diversional Therapists, Activities and Lifestyle staff will be held by Alzheimer’s Australia Victoria on:
- 15, 22 February
- 1, 8 May
- 4, 11 July
- 23, 30 August
- 25 October, 1 November
Contact Alzheimer’s Australia Victoria - edu@alzvic.asn.au or 03 9816 5750 for further information on these or other relevant workshops.

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The latest report (2005) on university finances show they are in a strong financial position.
From 2004 to 2005:
- total revenue increased by 8.1% to $13.9 billion
- operating result increased by 36.6% to $838 million
- total federal government funding increased by 9.3% to $7.8 billion
- net assets increased by 7% to $25.7 billion
- cash and investments [...]

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The Uniting Church in NSW has called on the State Government to match the recent commitment of the Coalition to fund an additional 200 ESL tacher places.
The Social Policy Officer with UnitingCare NSW, ACT, Justin Whelan said the number of ESL teachers had increased by just ten since 1993, leaving 41,000 students with no ESL [...]

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Abstracts for this Congress on Environmental Education close on 31 January 2007. More information is available through the International Secretariat sectariat@environment-education.org

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