Taking the Lead

Australian Council for Adult Literacy

The Australian Council for Adult Literacy (ACAL) promotes adult literacy and numeracy policy and practice in AUstralia. A national peak body, its state offices can be contacted by visiting ACAL's website: http://www.acal.edu.au/

Embedded Learning Portal

The materials on this portal have been produced for use by teachers in the UK coming from vocational, professional and community education backgrounds and also for teachers from specialist literacy, language and numeracy backgrounds: http://rwp.qia.oxi.net/embeddedlearning/search.cfm

Learning Object Repository Network (LORN)

The new e-learning resource portal, LORN, offers a single point of access to e-learning resources developed specifically for the Australian vocational education and training system. Trainers and assessors looking for resources can search the LORN site by keyword, competency, industry or licence type. All resources are copyright-cleared and conform to leading Quality Training Product Standards. They are either free or incur a small cost. Resources can be previewed before download or purchase: http://www.flexiblelearning.net.au/lorn

LiteracyNet

LiteracyNet contains key information about Australian adult literacy activity and links to a range of additional programme, professional development, resource, and research sites: http://literacynet.dest.gov.au/

Nald@work

A recently launched Canadian web resource that provides an employer-friendly interface into the Canadian National Adult Literacy Database (NALD). This online repository, containing program models, teaching and learning materials, assessment tools and research documents can be found at: http://www.naldatwork.ca/

National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER)

The NCVER is Australia's principal provider of vocational education and training (VET) research and statistics: http://www.ncver.edu.au/

Service Industries Skills Council (Service Skills Australia)

Service Skills Australia is the Industry Skills Council for the Australian service industries. It is responsible for developing and maintaining industry Training Packages and providing advice to industry, government and the VET system in relation to skills development: http://www.serviceskills.com.au/

Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) Australia Limited

TVET Australia provides a service to enable users of the national training system to identify and acquire training materials, identify copyright requirements and enter licenses for use of that material: http://www.productservices.tvetaustralia.com.au/

The Language, Literacy and Numeracy Program (LLNP)

The LLNP provides language, literacy and numeracy training for eligible clients. The program seeks to improve clients' language, literacy and/or numeracy with the expectation that such improvements will enable them to participate more effectively in training or in the labour force and lead to greater gains for society in the longer term. Eligible clients are referred to an LLNP provider by Referring Agencies, currently Centrelink and Job Network Members. Visit the DEEWR-administered LLNP website for more information at: http://www.llnp.deewr.gov.au/

The Reading and Writing Hotline

The reading and writing hotline is a national telephone adult literacy referral service, funded by the Australian Government Department of Education, Science and Training.
Experienced teachers can provide callers with advice on ways to improve reading, writing, and numeracy skills and give information on adult literacy and numeracy classes in your local area.
The hotline is open 24 hours. Phone 1300 6555 06 from anywhere in Australia at the cost of a local call. All enquiries are confidential: http://www.literacyline.edu.au/

The National Reporting System (online)

The National Reporting System (NRS) is a system designed by literacy trainers to assess client literacy and numeracy: http://www.nrs.dest.gov.au/ 

The New Zealand Literacy Portal

The New Zealand literacy portal is designed to provide a knowledge base of adult literacy information contributed by both New Zealand and international organisations: http://www.nzliteracyportal.org.nz/

VOCED Database

Find out what resources have been produced from the Workplace English Language and Literacy (WELL) Programme and the Adult Literacy National Project (ALNP) by visiting VOCED, a free research database for technical and vocational education and training. Visiting the site will provide you with bibliographic records of resources, including author, title, date, publication type, abstract, subject headings and an availability statement about where the resources can be purchased or borrowed: http://www.voced.edu.au/.

Workplace English Language and Literacy (WELL) Programme

The main aim of the WELL Programme is to provide funding to organisations to train workers in English language, literacy and numeracy skills.  This funding is available to organisations for language and literacy training linked to job-related workplace training and is designed to help workers meet their current and future employment and training needs: http://www.dest.gov.au/sectors/training_skills/programmes_funding/
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