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The Minister for Foreign Affairs, the Hon Alexander Downer MP, will launch Better education – a new policy for Australia’s aid program, at Parliament House, Canberra today (31 May, 2007). The policy aims to increase the number of children in school in our region by 10 million and improve the quality of education for 50 [...]

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A transcript of this speech is available at http://www.dest.gov.au/Ministers/Media/Robb/2007/05/R001300507.asp

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The Federal Government is proud to be spearheading the reopening of old style technical schools to help reduce Western Australia’s skills shortage.
Responding to a clumsy, politically inspired attack by the state Labor Education Minister, Mark McGowan, the Federal Minister for Vocational and Further Education Andrew Robb AO MP said today, “One of the biggest mistakes [...]

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NCVER has just published the report, ‘Men’s sheds in Australia: Learning through community contexts’. We believe this report is may be of interest to you, your colleagues and contacts.
Community-run men’s sheds have recently developed and proliferated, mainly across parts of southern Australia and with higher proportions of older men not in work. They are often [...]

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Voice technologies are being used to support Indigenous learners in land and conservation management – an area of growing employment opportunities. GippsTAFE in Victoria has been awarded $67,270 for its Cultural Studies with E-learning pilot, which has been funded and supported by the national training system’s e-learning strategy, the Australian Flexible Learning Framework (Framework). Currently [...]

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Emerging e-Trends in education If you wish to get on top of emerging trends and developments in e-learning, make sure you join the free e-Trends online conference running 19-20 June. The conference will look at how to use emerging technologies, such as wikis, blogs, mobile learning, virtual worlds and web conferencing, to provide effective e-learning [...]

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Australia’s baby boomers want to go back to school.
 
Continuing education is one of the most important issues for people over 50.
 
They are confident about their ability to take on new courses in computing, languages and trades. If there were more courses in suburban, country and regional areas they would participate.
 
These are the findings of [...]

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Background
According to the Australia Automobile Association, 1602 people died from car crashes in
Australia in 2006.  A further 22,000 people are seriously injured (paraplegia, quadriplegia, limb amputations and brain damage) each year.
 
We have lost more people to road deaths than in battle in two world wars.
 
This means that 31 people die every week, or one person [...]

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After 10 years and 400 completed community projects, the Shopfront has generated real social benefits. Community engagement is one of UTS’s core values and the Shopfront has linked UTS to many community-initiated projects. It has provided learning opportunities for many students as well as running forums, seminars and workshops. The program has developed an international [...]

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