The Australian TAFE Teacher - Contents

 

Spring 2011

FEATURES
The failure of the Productivity Places Program
Traditional Trades Training
Victorian TAFE Reforms
Industry rules and it's not OK
Becoming a 21st century leviathan
A five-point plan for quality, affordable TAFE
COLUMNS
From the president
Around Australia
TAFE newsmakers
What's on
Book reviews
News from NCVER

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Winter 2011

FEATURES
Julia Gillard on TAFE
Campaigning for the future of TAFE
Why qualifications matter
TAFE SA – pathways for Aboriginal people
Budget 2011 – TAFE & VET
More spin than spanner
The new national VET regulator
If laissez-faire rules, TAFE suffers
Green jobs in southern NSW
COLUMNS
From the president
Around Australia
TAFE newsmakers
What's on
Book reviews
News from NCVER

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Autumn 2011

FEATURES
Creating a future direction
Ending the deadly 'race to the bottom'
Literacy & Numeracy: Questions for VET managers
Adult & Community Education in Australia
VET workforce of the future
Empirical barriers
Support for a professional VET workforce
National VET Regulations
COLUMNS
From the president
Around Australia
TAFE newsmakers
What's on
Book reviews
News from NCVER

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Spring 2010

FEATURES
There is a tide... or is it head in the sand (again)?
Options for the future of VET teaching qualifications and continuing professional development
Victorian TAFEs facing hard times
Pathways of good intentions? - the connected tertiary environment in the ACT
How many VET students are there?
From "equal" futures to "creating" futures - how equality in VET is being framed
Skills for all - or are they?
What was and is "Tasmania Tomorrow"?
TAFE: BIG, beautiful, BOLD & bustling
Knua Buka Hatene's Expressional Arts Project in Timor-Leste
COLUMNS
From the President - Valuing people the key to success
Around Australia
Newsmakers
What's on
Reviews
News from NCVER - Contemplating the future of VET

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Winter 2010

FEATURES
Invest in Quality/Invest in TAFE
Principles of new approaches to TAFE teacher education
TAFE Teacher Education - What do we need and how do we get it?
Language Literacy and Numeracy Programs Under Threat
Education behind bars
Voluntary redundancies in Queensland Institutes of TAFE
The crisis in international education
The 2010 Fair Work Australia Pay Equity Case
COLUMNS
From the President - Keeping the Community in the dark
Around Australia
Newsmakers
What's On
Reviews
News from NCVER

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Autumn 2010

FEATURES
AEU State of our TAFEs Survey
Report reveals the truth on VET funding
TAFE teacher qualifications: too little, but it's not too late
The workforce of the future
The way forward for the Australian Qualifications Framework
Skills development and the benefits for TAFE
What talk about standards?
COLUMNS
From the President - Campaigning for the future of TAFE
Around Australia
TAFE Newsmaker
What's On
Reviews
News from NCVER

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Spring 2009

FEATURES
National TAFE Day
Coming to a TAFE near you?
TAFE teaching qualifications at the crossroads
Senate Inquiry into the welfare of international students
Tasmania Tomorrow
Who Benefits?
The right to education of persons in detention
25 years of International Solidarity
Timor-Leste independence
COLUMNS
From the President - Regulation in the VET Sector? Only when it suits!
Around Australia
TAFE Newsmaker
What's On
Reviews
News from NCVER

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Winter 2009

FEATURES
Being a TAFE casual
Putting the vocational back into VET
Investing Wisely
The role of frontline managers in TAFE - A reality check
TAFE & Human Capital
The changing base of VET funding
Training WA - Planning for the future?
Improving rural livelihoods - Cambodia and Laos
COLUMNS
From the President - Invest in a TAFE teacher today!
Around Australia
Members of the National TAFE Council Executive
TAFE Newsmaker
What's On
Book Reviews
News from NCVER

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Autumn 2009

FEATURES
The market is dead! Long live the market!
More than a competition - contributing to a more highly skilled workforce and a globally competitive country
Keeping the "E" in TAFE and the public in education
Tasmania Tomorrow - for better or for worse?
Gillard on Bradley on VET
Life beyond TAFE in the Northern Territory
Victoria's Dangerous Experiment
Arthur Hamilton Award
The cultural foundations of VET and the European Qualifications Framework
COLUMNS
From the President - And where to now?
The PPP and the market agenda (Federal TAFE Secretary)
Around Australia
TAFE Newsmaker
Product News
What's on
Book Reviews
News from NCVER

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Spring 2008

FEATURES
Contestability and the race to the bottom
Touching the future
Securing Victorian futures: NO guarantees
Expertise in teaching adults: A resource for innovation?
Labor goes corporate on IR
Impact of the Victorian Contestability Agenda
Some questions for educators in prison
World Indigenous Peoples' Conference on Education
COLUMNS
From the President - Reflections of a Lobbyist!
Around Australia
Product News
TAFE Newsmakers
What's On
Book Reviews
News from NCVER

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Winter 2008

FEATURES
Behind Closed Doors
Federal Budget 2008-2009
Facing up to Australia’s Skills Challenge
The high cost of qualification-based fees in NSW
The work of the AEU’s International Trust Fund
Advancing Paid Parental Leave in Australia
COLUMNS
From the President – What is happening to access and equity under the Rudd Government?
Around Australia
Product News
News from TAFE ATSIEC
TAFE Newsmakers
What's On
Book Reviews
News from NCVER

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Autumn 2008

FEATURES
What about knowledge? – The Deskilling of teachers’ work
If more competition is the answer for TAFE – what is the question?
Sydney to host flurry of skill and trade excellence
The ecological imperative: driving change in industry and vocational education and training
Modelling and driving employability skills?
Hidden privatisation in public education
Still Dying: Global HIV and the role of unions in Southern Africa
Woman Wanted – Rosemary Richards Awards 2008
Apology to the Stolen Generations
Victorian Training Awards – help develop a calling
COLUMNS
From the President – Rudd Government moves quickly, but is it the right direction for TAFE?
Around Australia
Members of the National TAFE Council Executive 2008-2009
TAFE Newsmaker
What’s On
Book Reviews
News from NCVER
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Spring 2007

FEATURES
TAFE Claim Launched
Towards TAFE Australia: Challenges for the next Australian Government
Election ’07: It’s crunch time
TAFE must take strong leadership role
Shaping the Future of TAFE
The Changing Role of the TAFE teacher
Education and Human Rights
Education International Congress
Rosemary Richards Award Project Underway
World Environment Education Congress
Key elements of John Howard’s WorkChoices
Supporting Public Education – Australia’s Future
COLUMNS
From the President – Federal Election Questions
TAFE Newsmaker
Around Australia
What’s On
Book Reviews
News from NCVER

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Winter 2007

FEATURES
TAFE after Stern: sustainable futures for all
What's New in environmental learning?
Case Studies - Connecting with people we know
Skills for Sustainability
Educating for Sustainability
Federal Budget report
TAFE Lobbying - Campaigning 2007
123 Big Mob!
Aceh - after the devastation - more devastation?
An engagement party for young Australians and everyone's invited
Award for TAFE Activist
COLUMNS
From the President - So what is TAFE's role?
TAFE Newsmakers
Industrial News - No hiding place from Workchoices
Around Australia
What's On
Book Reviews
News from NCVER

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Autumn 2007

FEATURES
Campaigning 2007
The COAG Agenda and what it means for TAFE
International threats to public education
The Federal Election - the fight of our lives
Jobs & Environment - why TAFE not "Workchoices" is the key to having the cake and eating it
The hidden cost of casual enployment in TAFE
AEU assists OH&S training and HIV Education for workers in Laos
Inaugural Rosemary Richards Award
COLUMNS
From the President
TAFE Newsmakers
Industrial News
Around Australia
TAFE ATSIEC
What's On
Book Reviews
News from NCVER

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Spring 2006

FEATURES
TAFE Futures: Snapshots and Voices
Social capital, VET and adult literacy and numeracy courses
Reading comprehension in the correctional classroom
RPL done often and well
‘If she was a boy, she could do an apprenticeship’
Skills fragmentation
Organisational culture and structure
Social capital, VET and adult literacy and numeracy courses
Queensland TAFE EBA
Migrant teachers face axe
COLUMNS

From the president
TAFE newsmakers
Around Australia
What’s On
Book reviews
News from NCVER

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Winter 2006

FEATURES
TAFE Futures - A National Inquiry
Teaching people, not skills
Showcasing the work of apprentices & trainees
A study of women in non-traditional trades
Women and VET policy: Keeping gender on the agenda
E-learning
TAFE ... a casual teacher's perspective
Working in a correctional setting
VET and the Federal Budget
The work of the International Trust Fund
Queensland Skills Plan
COLUMNS
From the president
TAFE newsmakers
Around Australia
Book reviews
News from NCVER

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Autumn 2006

FEATURES
Fighting the battle, weathering the storm - Learning from New Zealand
Queensland Skills Plan
Casual employment in TAFE: A case of unrequited love?
Corporate Social Responsibility, Lend lease and NSW TAFE outreach
TAFE leads the way with better choices for students
Creating Australia's future wealth: a challenge for TAFE teachers
Markets and funding in TAFE: blowing the whistle
Exploring dilemmas in competency-based assessment
Trade union training in Indonesia
Australian Education Union Arthur Hamilton Award for Reconciliation
Public Education for social justice and human rights
COLUMNS
From the president
Industrial news: Who is caught by the new federal IR laws?
Around Australia
News from NCVER
TAFE Newsmakers
Book Reviews

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Spring 2005

FEATURES
Challenging casualisation
The Federal Government’s attack on VET
We used to be educators - neoliberal restructuring in TAFE NSW
Teaching VET in ACT juvenile and adult detention centres
Challenges of ‘skills for jobs and growth’
Visions for Australian VET
Indigenous views, Indigenous futures
Contracting out
Aussies claim gold in Helsinki
COLUMNS
From the president
Industrial news: Why AWAs are bad for education
Around Australia
What’s on
Book reviews
TAFE newsmakers
News from NCVER

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Winter 2005

FEATURES
Adult literacy research
TAFE works

Howard’s agenda: The coalition has plans for TAFE
Opportunity to participate in VET research
New directions for the CDEP programme
TAFE practitioners keep upskilling
Casual TAFE teachers
Cross-age peer tutoring is terrific
Commonwealth tightens the funding screw
Skills shortages
AMES: An Industrial twilight zone
NSW corrections education campaign
COLUMNS
From the president
News from ANTA
TAFE newsmakers
Industrial news
Around Australia
Book reviews
News from NCVER

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Autumn 2005

FEATURES
Team Australia
What do TAFE casual employees want?
Actively campaigning for job security
Organising & recruitment around job security
Rebuilding hope from the tsunami tragedy
Australian Technical Colleges
TAFE funding and the new federalism
Responding to skills shortages
COLUMNS
From the Editor
From the President
News from ANTA
TAFE Newsmakers
Welcome to Howard's world
Around Australia
Book Reviews
News from NCVER

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Spring 2004

FEATURES
ANTA: New councils link with the trainers
Vocational education and training at the crossroads
Australia’s looming skills shortage
MARS targets engineering trades
Women’s issues are union issues
Cultural diversity in TAFE
Why Japanese students are turning to TAFE
A whole union approach
NET*Working 2004‘Inclusion and Inspiration’
Readers’ survey
Snapshot of the VET professional
COLUMNS
From the President
News from ANTA
NSW casual teachers await decision
Book Reviews
News from NCVER

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Winter 2004

FEATURES
NET*Working 2004 - ‘Inclusion and Inspiration’
TAFE Teaching: the ‘swampy ground of practice’
Up up and away with TAA
The challenges of credit transfer
Moving On Training Packages
TAFE and the Australian Stone Industry
Vote 1 for TAFE
Calling all members
Former TAFE Teachers
COLUMNS
From the Editor
From the President
News from ANTA
TAFE Newsmakers
Industrial news
Book Reviews
News from NCVER

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Autumn 2004

FEATURES
TAFE Forum held
Pedagogy, VET and the online environment
AEU asylum seekers and refugees project
TAFE fees action in NSW
Politicians lobbied in Canberra
Profession and Identity
The Right Stuff
National campaign underway
TAA Training Package goes in for endorsement
TAFE Council Executive 2004
Thoughts of a TAFE Optimist
COLUMNS
From the Editor
From the President
News from ANTA
Industrial News
What's On
TAFE Newsmakers
Book Reviews
Product News
News from NCVER

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Spring 2003

FEATURES
TAFE Professionals: Raising the standard
Gearing up to the funding campaign
Industry's investment in training
A youth guarantee
Moreton Bay Institute of TAFE, Bayside Campus: A learning community
Campaigning with the community, industry and students in TAFE NSW
Addressing casual employment
Working together to change lives: An interview with Janine Gawler
COLUMNS
From the Editor
From the President
News from ANTA
Industrial News
Product News
TAFE Newsmakers
What's On
Book Reviews
News from NCVER

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Winter 2003

FEATURES
Skills Development for Industry and Workers
New Industry Advisory Arrangements
The Future of VET for the IT&T Industry
Where are Australia's Manufacturing Industries going?
An Industry-led VET System
Towards a VET pedagogy
Climbing the Second Curve: Renewal and re-invigoration through connections with the National Innovation System
NSW TAFE discusses trades' issues
COLUMNS
From the Editor
From the President
News from ANTA
Industrial News
News from NCVER

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