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HJ Heinz, in partnership with Simplot Australia, has released its new multimedia demonstration preparing food production staff for Certificate II in Food Processing. The Food Processing Compliance e-learning demonstration provides staff new to food production with online resources and multimedia packages for educating and training that can be delivered in a flexible manner, accessed at their [...]

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How to write a business case for e-learning ACT workshop - Friday 7 March (repeat)
Last week, the ACT hosted the first ’How to write a business case for e-learning’ workshop, which is part of a series of national workshops hosted by the Australian Flexible Learning Framework. If you were unable to attend the first workshop (on Wednesday 13 February), we [...]

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We have been informed by our Vice-President, Heribert Hinzen and by our colleague in UIL, Bettina Bochynek that the deadline for the national reports for CONFINTEA VI has been extended by a month, to the end of April 2008. Please find below the announcement that UIL will be soon publishing in its website.
CONFINTEA VI National [...]

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Please see below a link to register for a presentation by the Deputy Prime Minister, the Hon Julia Gillard MP next Thursday 28 February at 4.30pm at the University of NSW, Kensington.

http://public-files.syd.bang.net.au/cisco/cis2874_social%20innovation%20edm/CIS2874_social%20innovation_web.html 
 
The event is being hosted by the Centre for Social Impact in partnership with the Australian Social Innovation Exchange, a project being developed in association with [...]

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Public Training Program Update
Please find outlined below some of the upcoming public training programs being conducted by Diversity@Work.
As specialists in all areas of diversity and inclusion, we believe that these programs will prove beneficial for you or your organisation, whether you are a government body, corporation, employment service provider, recruiter or community organisation.
Along with these [...]

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Literacy is a concern not only of developing countries but also of many countries in Europe.
In the region, an increasing proportion of the population lacks the basic competencies to
tackle the demands of everyday life. It is in this context that the UNESCO Institute for
Lifelong Learning, with support from the European Commission, organized the European
Regional Meeting [...]

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The Australian Flexible Learning Framework has made available $510,000 in funding for registered training organisations (RTOs), business and industry to develop E-learning Innovations projects in Western Australia.  Western Australian E-learning Innovations Application Guidelines are available at http://www.flexiblelearning.net.au/wa. Applications close on 4 April 2008. You can attend one of the following Framework funding and application process information [...]

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Next Funding opportunityApplications guidelines for innovation  projects from the Australian Flexible Learning Framework are now being made available for each state on the Australian Flexible Learning Framework site(click on your relevant state link from this page).  The funding announcements were made in last Saturday’s Australian. Innovations funding is available in 2 categories – Business Partnerships and [...]

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The International Year of Planet Earth will be launched at UNESCO in Paris on the 12/13 February 2008.

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Second-chance vocational education and training
Tom Karmel, Davinia Woods
The vocational education and training sector (VET) has a reputation for providing learners with a second chance. This report critically examines this idea, and finds that although VET provides opportunities for a second chance at education to many prospective students, the percentage who complete their studies and gain [...]

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