2019 Annual General Meeting and webinar

2019 Annual General Meeting and webinar

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...

$145,000 workforce planning and development grant

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...

Australian Training Awards

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,...

‘Empowerment’ or ‘Compliance’

‘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...

Reading Writing Hotline turns 25

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...