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What’s happening in Adult Basic Education (ABE)?

ABE welcomes new staff members Ngulla Murrandah (full-time teacher), Bronwyn Sanders (full-time clerical), Pathmini Umapathy (part-time LLNP clerical), Rebecca Alderton (part-time teacher) and welcomes back Carmel Gerrie, Helen Ford and Gillian Crealy (part-time teachers). Congratulations to Kate Filan who recently announced her engagement. Woohoo! It’s just as well we have such enthusiastic staff as we [...]
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Creating learning communities for OTEN students

OTEN teaching sections are exploring the use of social networking sites, such as Facebook and Twitter, to encourage students to use these sites to engage in collaborative and knowledge-sharing activities. Here is what Community Services’ teachers have to say about using Facebook for educational purposes:

Life on the good ship “Communication”

2010 was an eventful year for the Communication section. Head Teacher, Tony Hill, went overboard (retired!) in August and apparently has no regrets… although we are very happy to note that he is now on a life boat as an active offsite teacher. Now in 2011 Connie Papanikolaou is currently steering the ship in Communication. [...]
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OTEN TVET Students are winners!

Fourteen TVET students from OTEN were successful in being awarded the Australian Vocational Student Prize. The Prize is designed to acknowledge outstanding achievement in a HSC VET course. Each student receives a certificate as well as $2000. The students studied courses in Accounting, Business Services, Children’s Services, Information Technology, Property Services and Tourism. There was [...]
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OUTREACH, YOUTH, EQUITY (OYE)

The OTEN Outreach motto is an aphorism of Hippocrates. “Primum non nocere” – “first do no harm”. Outreach gives people who have disengaged from mainstream education a positive and encouraging opportunity to re-enter education and/or employment training. • Outreach delivers the Statement of Attainment and the Certificate 1 in Access to Work and Training (AWT) [...]
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