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‘The First Learning Festival in Urugay’ has just taken place. Organised by the Ministry of Education and Culture it aimed to value, celebrate and spread the importance of lifelong learning, youth and adult learning.
It was attended by among others represenataives from NIACE and Sweden.

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A national review has examined the use of innovative software applications across computer networks and firewalls to identify ways of supporting leading edge e-learning practices in vocational education and training (VET).
As part of its efforts to encourage the uptake of innovative education and training, the national training system’s e-learning strategy, the Australian Flexible Learning [...]

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Voc Ed Learning Group (VELG) will be running a series of Professional Development workshops across Australia for RTOs seeking to understand auditing requirements and arrangements under the AQTF 2007 Essential Standards for Registration.
The AQTF 2007 Essential Standards for Registration focus on outcomes, which are demonstrated by [...]

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Steffi Franke - Sydney - 02 903 72995 - are attempting to find a language teacher in Canberra (postcode 2609) who could provide a 20 hour course in business english with lessons twice a week between the hours of 9am -5pm.
Interested parties should ring the Sydney number.

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The president of Senegal and UNESCO’s Director-General will open the Seventh Meeting of the Education for All (EFA) High-Level Group in Dakar, Senegal, from 11-13 December.
At the halfway point to 2015 - the internationally-agreed target date to achieve EFA- the meeting is expected to produce key recommendations to step up progress.

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The 2008 Education for All Global Monitoring Report is now available. Please visit our website at
www.efareport.unesco.org
to find out where countries stand midway to 2015 on providing a quality education to all children, youth and adults.

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This has been developed to assist Learning Choices programs and schools to understand and identify your program’s strengths and weaknesses. It also enables you to see how your program rates against the average of all programs using OSAT, and provides a comprehensive list of relevant resources which are freely available to download from the [...]

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The world is far from achieving its education targets with 72 million still out of school and 774 million illiterate adults . These disturbing figures are some of the findings in the recently released Global School Report which can be seen and downloaded at http://www.campaignfor education.org/schoolreport/2008_reports.

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From Disengaged to Re-engaged - Young People’s Right to Education and Training
Deadline for submissions: 22 February 2008 National
Dusseldorp Skills Forum

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Almost 1,000 teenagers across Australia were surveyed about their expectations of the use of information and communication technology (ICT) in post-secondary education and training as part of a groundbreaking national campaign.
The campaign encouraged teenagers to “PUT THE HARD WORD” on teachers and trainers to ensure that they get a say in what, where, when and [...]

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