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The Woombalah Festival is expected to attract some 10,000 people over the weekend and you’re the Community Safety Officer.
There will be stalls, a camp ground, bands, kids rides and parking facilities for festival goers, who range from toddlers to senior citizens.
Lucky for you there is an e-learning resource that will talk you through your [...]

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SAE
INSTITUTE
BYRON
BAY TO HOST FREE STUDY DAYS FOR POTENTIAL STUDENTS 
 If a career in the exhilarating industries of film and sound production or audio engineering interests you, a day road testing the latest technologies and techniques at SAE Institute may be enough to inspire you to take the next step. 
SAE Institute’s
Byron
Bay campus will host its free annual [...]

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Carers Australia will today launch the Young Carers Secondary School Resource at Darwin High School at
10:30am.
Carers Australia has developed the Young Carers Secondary School Resource to help teaching staff raise
awareness of some of the needs of young carers, assist in identifying young carers and understand the
impact of caring on the education of young people.
“This resource [...]

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Find out how businesses are using e-learning to speed up skills acquisition at a free industry event in
Melbourne on 22 November. 
Hear about industry e-learning solutions to skills shortages from the Australian Stainless Steel Development Association, who are teaching gas tungsten arc welding online; Tradelink, who are upskilling mature workers through retail management e-training; and how [...]

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All the funding numbers in the OCED’s latest education report look bad for Australia, writes SIMON MARGINSON
This article released on APO can be accessed on www.apo.org.au/webboard/comment_results.chtm/?filename_num=175821

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The speech made by The Hon Andrew Robb at this Conference can be viewed at http://www.dest.gov.au/Ministers/Media/Robb/2007/09/R001240907.asp.
An edited version will be printed in the next edition of Quest.

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Indigenous Australian researchers from five universities will share in $1.12 million over three years to undertake projects in areas such as Indigenous education, violence prevention, climate change and reconciliation through sport, under the Australian Government’s Discovery Indigenous Researchers Development scheme.
Announcing the latest round of funding from the Australian Research Council (ARC) today, the Minister for [...]

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Alan levine, an international advocate for the use of new technologies in e-learning, is taking part in a national speaking tour sponsored by Australian Flexible Learning Framework. Sessions will be held in each capital city between 15 - 26 October 2007.
For more information about the tour, dates and contact numbers in your state or territory [...]

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A free collection of resources to help Indigenous people get ready for the workplace has been released in a CD-ROM format.
The multimedia learning materials, web links and suggested text resources support the delivery of the Queensland Certificate I in Work Education.
Indigenous e-learn = e-skills n work has been put together using resources produced by the [...]

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240 students in Lismore and
Richmond
Valley will benefit from the Howard Government’s investment in new training facilities at Lismore TAFE. 
The facilities, including the refurbishment of classrooms and amenities at TAFE NSW - Lismore campus, were opened today by the Federal Minister for Vocational and Further Education, the Hon Andrew Robb AO MP. 
“This investment by the Australian [...]

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