by admin4acal | Nov 21, 2019 | News
If you would like to reflect further on the presentations many of the presenters have made available PDFs of their slides. The PDFs are on the website...
by admin4acal | Oct 28, 2019 | News
Presented at the AGM October, 2019 with Lidia Lipkiewicz, winner of the Australian Training Award in Excellence in Language, Literacy, Numeracy Practice (2018) ‘Plan a project’ is a weekly, project-based program that develops language, literacy and numeracy skills as...
by admin4acal | Oct 12, 2019 | News
Literacy for Life Foundation Location: Ltyentye Apurte (Santa Teresa), Regional NT Duration: This is a 12 month contract beginning 6 January 2020 Salary & conditions: Base salary $80,000 plus 9.5% superannuation; 38 hours per week; 25 days annual leave. Rostered...
by admin4acal | Oct 8, 2019 | News
Notice of Meeting The 2019 Annual General Meeting of the Australian Council for Adult Literacy will be held on Wednesday, October 23, 2019 commencing at 3.00pm AEDT by webinar. Note Daylight saving will be in operation. Check local times A link to the webinar and...
by admin4acal | Aug 4, 2019 | Archive
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...
