by admin4acal | Aug 4, 2019 | News
TCAL was delighted to receive a $145,000 workforce planning and development grant from Skills Tasmania in July. Skills Tasmania is the state training authority and also is responsible for workforce development, and takes a sectoral approach to industry development. In...
by admin4acal | May 23, 2019 | News
One week left to apply! Be recognised nationally for your commitment to LLN skills The Excellence in Language, Literacy and Numeracy (LLN) Practice Award recognises innovation and excellence by an individual involved in improving LLN skills in an educational,...
by admin4acal | May 15, 2019 | News
‘Adult literacy and liberal-progressive pedagogy: Australian contexts’, by Steven Black and Barbara Bee. Research in Post-compulsory Education, 23(2), 181–201.In this article, the two authors contrast the two key adult literacy discourses of...
by admin4acal | May 13, 2019 | News
On Monday 15 April the 25th anniversary of the Reading Writing Hotline was celebrated in Sydney. The Hotline offers important information and advice on available literacy courses and literacy qualifications nationally. TAFE NSW manages this well-respected service with...
by admin4acal | May 13, 2019 | News
On 21.2.2019 Senator Doug Cameron put the following questions to the Department of Education and Training in the Senate’s estimates committee: What level of funding has been allocated to undertake the PIACC survey? Is the PIACC survey going to be designed and...
by admin4acal | Apr 6, 2019 | News
The Review of Australia’s VET sector was recently completed and published. This Review, conducted by the Honorable Steven Joyce, a former New Zealand Minister for Tertiary Education, Skills and Employment, argues that there needs to be a significant upgrade to...
by admin4acal | Apr 6, 2019 | News
ACAL’s mission is to promote adult literacy and numeracy policy and practice. In advocating with ALA, ACAL is pleased to support the provision of adult LN in the Adult Community Education sector and recognises the role it plays as one of the many spaces in which adult...
by admin4acal | Apr 1, 2019 | News
Following our face to face meeting in February, ACAL contacted a number of politicians to put some questions to them about adult literacy and numeracy. The major parties were contacted, along with independent MPs. As we receive responses, we will share them in our...
by admin4acal | Mar 30, 2019 | News
The Australian Industry Group (Ai Group) is nearing completion of a workplace Language, Literacy and Numeracy support project for NSW apprentices and trainees. The project is called ‘Laying Foundations for Apprenticeship Project’ and is supported by funding from the...
by admin4acal | Mar 30, 2019 | News
There will no doubt be some readers who remember with sadness the demise, during the 1990s and beyond, of many of the repositories of adult literacy and numeracy resources. Names that come to mind include the Adult Literacy Information Office in NSW and The National...
