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This journal is a channel for description, explanation, interpretation, discussion and debate of issues and practices relevant to current developments in vocational education and training. It is published four times per year in February, May, August and November. This issue includes the following articles: Beyond TER: a vocational educator's perspective on student selection / Ken Whiteman; Principles for the design of national VET curriculum: a step forward? / Peter Grant; Professional curriculum design conference / Lyn Watson and Katherine Rogers; Vocational developments in the UK: evolution or revolution? / Frank Stoner. Show less

Training Agenda is a channel for description, explanation, interpretation, discussion and debate about issues and practices relevant to current developments in vocational education and training (VET). It is published four times per year, in February, May, August and November. This issue focuses on training in NSW prisons and contains the following articles: Within these walls: training a captive audience; Inside out: a practitioner's view of prison training; Fitting out a future; Humanitarian award for cultural awareness training; Inside TAFE training; Broken Hill: training solutions to complex issues. Other articles in this issue include: Vocational education and training in schools / Ken Boston; Coffs Harbour: three years on... / Warren Grimshaw; From a ward to award: a profile of the 1997 Vocational Education Student of the Year, Georgina Butt; Lifelong learning: concepts and context for the future / Jozefa Sobski; The pelican's flight: apprentices experiencing on- off-job learning environments / Roger Harris, Peter Willis, Michele Simons and Fiona Underwood; Training tonic for gin brigade / Peter McCleary. Show less

This journal is a channel for description, explanation, interpretation, discussion and debate of issues and practices relevant to current developments in vocational education and training. Training Agenda is produced four times per year, February, May, August and November.

This issue features several articles on the topic of recognition. The feature begins with an article by Fiona Love which summarises the context for recognition arrangements as they affect TAFE NSW and defines the various terms associated with recognition. Following this are edited extracts from papers presented at the Recognition Forum (Sydney, 24-25 May 1995) by representatives of the TAFE, School and Adult and Community Education sectors, of industry and of the Industry Training Advisory Board (ITAB) sector (TD/NSW 45.48).

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Training Agenda is a channel for description, explanation, interpretation, discussion and debate about issues and practices relevant to current developments in vocational education and training. It is published four times per year, in February, May, August and November.

The current issue focuses on competition in the vocational education and training sector and includes interviews with Clive Graham of the Australian Council for Private Education and Training (ACPET), Brian Jones of Email, Robin Shreeve of North Coast Institute of TAFE, and Richard Jenkins of MTIA, Australia’s Manufacturing and Construction Industry Association. Other articles include: On the right track / Fiona Love; Postcard from Mexico / Robin Booth, Clive Chappell and Ruth Cohen; Equity in apprenticeships and traineeships / Michelle Wheeler; VET and the 1997-98 budget / Des Fooks; New Apprenticeships and the Institute / Patricia Strauss; Not much user choice / Frank Hegerty. Show less

This journal is a channel for description, explanation, interpretation, discussion and debate of issues and practices relevant to current developments in vocational education and training. Training Agenda is produced four times per year in February, May, August and November.

This issue of Training Agenda addresses access and equity issues relating to vocational education and training programs for Aboriginal people. The feature includes a range of articles, case studies, news items and an interview related to the topic. Show less

'Adult learning Australia', published quarterly, is the newsletter of Adult Learning Australia (ALA), the peak Australian non-government organisation (NGO) for adult and community education (ACE). Articles focus on international activity and on the art and results of surveys. 'Community based education in Taiwan' by Garry John Traynor (p. 12-13) highlights the work of young Taiwanese community educators. 'Meet me in St Louis' by Roger Morris (p. 14-15) reports on three conferences on adult education held recently at the Old Union Railway Station in St Louis, Missouri (the 51st Annual Conference of the American Association of Adult and Continuing Education (AAACE); the International Society for Comparative Adult Education Conference; the Commission of Professors of Adult Education Conference). A report on the ALA survey of its members' requirements and their view in relation to various key areas of ALA (p. 5-8) reveals that advocacy and national policy are priority areas for the association. Professional development and access to communities of practice are perceived as benefits of membership. An evaluation of Adult Learners' Week, a promotion to encourage lifelong learning with 'literacy' as this year's theme (p. 9-11), reveals that it is widely perceived as a positive event that should continue. Other short articles report on the Global Campaign on Education (GCE) board meeting held in Brazil in January, lifelong learning in New Zealand, and learning circles as a tool in community capacity building in the Campbelltown area of New South Wales. Show less

This periodical, published quarterly, provides current information for vocational education and training (VET) practitioners on educational, policy and industrial developments affecting the VET sector in Australia. Articles in this issue include: ‘2006 and onwards’ by Linda Simon (p. 4-5) which highlights changes to the Australian VET system resulting from the Skilling Australia’s Workforce Act 2005 (indexed at TD/TNC 83.246); Fighting the battle, weathering the storm: learning from New Zealand’ (p. 6) which is a summary of the address given by Lloyd Woods, National President of Association of Staff in Tertiary Education (ASTE) at the 2006 Australian Education Union (AEU) TAFE Council Meeting; ‘Queensland skills plan’ by John McCollow (p. 8-9) which summarises the key points of the VET white paper ‘Queensland skills plan’ (indexed at TD/TNC 85.453); ‘Casual employment in TAFE: a case of unrequited love?’ by Tom Karmel (p. 10-11) which highlights the findings of work carried out by the National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER) that explored the growth of casual employment in TAFE; ‘Corporate social responsibility, Lend Lease and NSW TAFE Outreach’ by Sue Angel and Camilla Couch (p. 12-13) which looks at an innovative community-social partnership program; ‘Creating Australia’s future wealth: a challenge for TAFE teachers’ by Dennis Macnamara (p. 14-15) which looks at the challenge of supplying flexible learning packages and learning environments; Markets and funding in TAFE: blowing the whistle’ by Damon Anderson (p. 16-17) which is a keynote address given at the 2006 TAFE AGM and which looks at the issue of training markets; ‘Exploring dilemmas in competency-based assessment’ by Sue Mandley (p. 18-19) which looks at how education and learning are measured. Show less

Training agenda is a channel for description, explanation, interpretation, discussion and debate about issues and practices relevant to current developments in vocational education and training (VET). It is published four times per year in February, May, August and November. This issue focuses on online delivery.

Individual articles from this issue are indexed from TD/NSW 58.02 to TD/NSW 58.13. Show less

Training Agenda is a channel for description, explanation, interpretation, discussion and debate about issues and practices relevant to current developments in vocational education and training (VET). It is published four times per year, in February, May, August and November. This issue focuses on part-time traineeships in schools and contains the following articles: Background, definition and requirements; Part-time traineeships and associated programs in NSW schools: 1998-99; Maitland schools engineer Metals traineeships; Traineeships in the Illawarra; Vocational education and training in the NSW HSC / Phil Stabback; Training packages: opportunity or threat? / Paul Comyn; Training packages: a perspective on quality / Douglas Greening. Other articles in this issue include: The future of curriculum / Jozefa Sobski; Industry partnership: leaning on a broken reed / Des Fooks; Staff development in VET: a critique of current practice / Erica Smith; Should we 'let them eat TAFE'? Barry Golding; Encouraging welfare in rural communities; Vocational education and training for offenders / Bob Semmens. Show less

The Network of Women in Further Education (NOW in FE) originated in 1985 as a network of the Australian Association of Adult Education. NOW in FE's position on adult, community and further educational issues is based on feminist analysis. The NOW in FE newsletters include news of interest to women in the adult, community and further education sector, international perspectives, and in depth articles on women's learning.

Feature articles in this second newsletter for 1994 are: 'Literacy: a stepping stone to women's development' by Anne Wigglesworth, describes her experience working in literacy programs in Nepal, Mozambique and El Salvador and observed the difference between men and women studying in those programs; 'Literacy in a community flat' by Philippa McLean, explores aspects of working with women in women only classes; 'Questioning 'progressive' pedagogies' by Alison Lee, reports on her research into some of the communication, behaviour and learning in mixed gender classes in New South Wales (NSW), and raises questions about pedagogy; 'Changing times, changing classes', an interview where Renate Tratter reflects on her experience of working with women and dilemmas posed by her current work which is mainly with men in Melbourne; 'The politics of space' by Kris Plowman, discusses gender roles, space and power; 'Do men and women talk in different languages?' by Lesley Stirling, puts forward some revealing research on language, gender and power.

Other contents are as follows: Editorial; Voices from NOW in FE; Oodgeroo Noonuccal [brief biography; in 1964, under her former name, Kath Walker, she became only the second known Aboriginal writer and the first Aboriginal woman writer to be published]; Beijing [information about the Non Government Organisation forum]; Letters to the editor; Review: Women's courses: an endangered species; National news; Study group. Show less