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Adult and Community Education News
- Opening of Ozanam learning centre: A new chapter for homeless people
- Prime Minister Kevin Rudd today opened the Sydney Ozanam Learning Centre, a facility that will provide new opportunities for homeless people.
- Leadership Achievement for Women Award opens
- The Centre for Leadership for Women (CLW) Leadership Achievement Award has been established to recognise women in the community who use their own initiative to create and implement projects for the benefit of the community and in collaboration with the community. It aims to encourage leadership of Australian women and to advance the rights and status of women in Australia. Applications close on 22...
- Life Matters discusses volunteering and baby boomers
- This program examines questions such as : What are the newly retired looking for in their volunteering roles? Are they more discriminating than older seniors? Is there a connection between volunteering and good health?
- ABC seeks to broadcast original short stories
- The ABC is looking for short stories that will make great radio from people who live outside metropolitan areas (but including residents of Hobart and Darwin). All stories must be original, previously unpublished and less than 800 words in length. Entries close closes at 5pm AEST on Friday 17 August 2007.
- RMIT supports community mentoring program
- The Linking of Young people into Employment and Training (LYPET) aims to link trained community mentors with young people who are currently not involved in education, employment or training or who are 'at risk' of becoming early school leavers. The objective of the program is to provide an opportunity for disengaged young people to be matched with an adult in their community who will assist them t...
- New report on informal learning in men's sheds
- The National Centre of Vocational Research and Education (NCVER) has recently released a report entitled 'Men's sheds in Australia: learning through community contexts'. It examines the educational role of men's sheds and the communities which develop around them.
- Voices of Australia
- To mark the 30th anniversary of the Racial Discrimination Act (RDA), the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission (HRECO) is putting together 'Voices of Australia' - a magazine and audio CD of real-life stories about diversity and living together in contemporary Australia. 'Voices of Australia' will be distributed to community groups, schools, libraries, local councils, religious groups, gove...
