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This is Stephanie and myself after we had been to the hairdresser at Broadway....

We are here with the mob from Tapatjatjaka Arts Centre - Kenneth, Jane, Stephanie, Ansara and Susan. They are down here on an arts study tour. We are all in the classroom looking at how easy it is to place a photo - only taken yesterday - up on to the internet. This photo was taken at the Botanical Gardens. ...

As you are all aware the Govt has a new name for Access and Equity! Its social inclusion and the reason why we know is that there no longer central support for NSW Outreach. Our equity section has traditionally sent out a link to research papers on the social inclusion site to assist us with any of our funding applications ok and we thought we will put a link up here for you all too ok.

Peter Jeffs, Untitled 1, 1995-2000/2007, gelatin silver photograph, 115x174cm. From the exhibition Time and Distance at Centre for Contemporary Photography 2008.

The greatest power for progressive social change lies precisely with the excluded. The people who can best define and interpret the reality of exclusion and socio-economic insecurity are also potentially the only ones who can, in the end, determine the means towards, and the ends of, social inclusion.

John Falzon's eloquent article in Human rights Defender, Volume 17: Issue 1: August 2008, provides an overview of service delivery and advocacy to the most marginalised in our communities in the context of devolution of state responsibilities and "diminishing rights of citizens".

Further, the coercive corralling of disadvantaged groups into the low end of the labour market may result in the lowering of labour costs, but this in itself can act as a disincentive for business to actually invest in training and technological innovation. In other words, productivity increases can be discouraged because profit margins are increased on the backs of cheaper and more compliant labour.

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This is not the first time this question has been tackled. Leesa Wheelahan's paper interrogates the role of training packages and curriculum. What effect do training packages have on students access to theoretical knowledge underpining vocational practice?

This paper argues that competency-based vocational education and training qualifications in Australia deny students access to the theoretical k...

AVETRA is Australia’s only national, independent association of researchers in vocational education and training (VET). It was established in 1997 with initial financial assistance from the Australian National Training Authority Research Advisory Council and receives support from the National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER).

These links pages are designed to help AVETRA members a...

Have you ever had that awful awful feeling of "where am I going to stay in Sydney" and hey not to mention "at a place that suits my budget". Well we have found a pretty good tool for that hey. What happened was that my sister Susan is coming to Sydney for a conference with her work at Lifeline in Cairns and some of her colleagues were asking for some recommendations and Lesley has not been in the...

Educational Uses of Specific Learning Technologies The guide is mainly for teachers of Australian primary and secondary school. There are some great links to free and inexpensive resources that might be useful for adult education....

Welcome back to Outreach for another year of innovative Outreach practice. We have been busy at state office endeavouring to support your practice. The intranet site is being updated with information on staff, professional development, projects, resources and guidelines. We are also working on the feedback from the Outreach conference and addressing issues raised. The Equity Unit presented a respo...

Here is the NSW Outreach Staff List for you to download ok. It is important to keep the list updated so if you know of a change please contact Donna or Jude and they will in turn update the list.

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Rick Flowers pointed me in the direction of this conference information. His query was "If you or we convened a similar sort of seminar in Australia, would there be much interest?" The conference aims to explore how radical political education might be reshaped, maybe kick started. This would be followed with the publication of a policy discussion document to "promote political education and act...

The Austrailian Security Investment Commission has information available on their site for teachers/facilitators providing info to students re financial matters ok.

As the consumer protection regulator for financial services, ASIC's aim is to improve the financial literacy of Australian consumers so that they can make informed decisions about financial products and services, and identify and avoid financial scams and rip-offs. We believe that money management skills should be learned at an early age, if young people are to become confident and informed consumers in adult life. We provide lots of valuable information on our websites that can be used when teaching personal finance and consumer rights to young people.

This is worth a look ok. Click here for link....

Are you sick and tired of those emails that come through saying that you have won a prize or lottery? Well its most probably a scam hey. and after 60 minutes who can blame you for being paranoid...so Lesley has done a bit of research and went straight to the NSW Police site and thought I would post this for you all to use ok. SCAMwatch is a government run website giving consumers info on what...

Its that time again folks - A Big welcome to NSW LearnScope where NSWtox has ! Head Office has been successful again and has received a 2007 LearnScope funds to implement Outreach Ubiquitious Learning project. In order to record our learning, each member of the Ubiquitious Team will create a wiki to reflect their learning throughout the project. This will happen during our workshop. Members wi...

Monday 25^th June

Session 1 3 – 3:45pm @ Felton Woods Katoomba

Meet and greet. Share individual goals for the project.

3:45 – 6pm

Rick Flowers (UTS) Robyn Jay (LearnScope) and Barbara Bee (Outreach Teacher). The role of ubiquitous learning, social software and free and open source software in Outreach Practice

This will be followed by dinner @ Felton Woods

Tuesday 26^th June...

Is that grammatically correct? Need some help with your P's n Q's? The Language Literacy blog has a series of links to usful tutorial sites.

What is happening this year for Outreach practioners in their exploration of current educational debate and emerging technologies.... We have received funding for another LearnScope project and are in the process of preparing for our work shop. The project blog will be Ubiquitous Outreach Exchange where we will keep you up to date with where we have been, where we are and where we might be headin...

A couple of weeks ago i took the plunge and traded in my reliable old mobile for an updated model. To date i am pleased to say i am finding it well worth while. My phone now serves as a camera, audio recorder, mp3 player, research tool, alarm, calendar and anything internet. I feel utterly ubiquitous as i write this posting from my new appendage.

I have just listened to a conversation between Alex Hayes and Wendy Zammit about some of the options we should be exploring to enable us to provide truly rich and accessible tools to support our practice.

The recording with Wendy was a little patchy as we had a staggered line and my headphones need replacing however here is the recording.

It is well worth going to, Alex also demonstrates using wi...

What with all the cirriculum writing for the new units of competencies that are aspiring to capture the essence and heart of what makes Outreach, we thought we might use technology to help us along the way hey. If you would like to look at what is now being said about Outreach or should I say what is not being said and you would like to add your two bobs worth......get a load of this.

Outreach pr...

I am reading a paper from ANTA/ DEST called An Essentail Skills Plan, that exams future directions for basic literacy. It has a refreshing approach, talking about successful outcomes not only in terms of "employability" or "work ready" but functioning effectively socially in family and community contexts. The approach is less of a bandaid:

Short-term funding and strategies that set-up a competitive environment between providers of essential skill services are counter-productive to the development of sustainable partnerships and quality programs.6 Funding mechanisms need to be created that allow for flexible delivery of programs and encourage partnerships between organisations, with more flexible ways of utilising existing pools of funding being explored. Proposed new three-year funding cycles may help to facilitate greater collaboration for programs that seek to embed essential skills via a ‘builtin, not bolted on’ approach. Funding and support for successful and innovative projects and for new initiatives are particularly important.

I would love to hear what others think....

A few months ago I was chatting to Barbara Bee, she was recalling the events of days gone by at Granville. I asked Barbara is she would write it down as not all of us knew this history. I am pleased to say Barbara has recorded her story for us. An extract follows:

Despite all this TAFE remains my educational home and it has and still does give me the greatest satisfaction in teaching and encoura...

The Australian Qualifications Framework defines qualifications.

Qualification is defined as follows: formal certification, issued by a relevant approved body, in recognition that a person has achieved learning outcomes or competencies relevant to identified individual, professional,industry or community needs.

A debate I hear often is about course accreditation, the handbook goes some way in clar...

There is much debate about who needs the Certificate IV, old or new to teach or assess learners. Should those with the old Certificate IV be upgrading their qualification and other such questions emerge regularly in such debates. There are also questions about the value of the qualification in teaching practices. This link to the AQTF 2005 RTO standards is source of the requirements.

7.3 a The RTO...