Edition 42, March 2007

The Adult Literacy National Project - helping to skill Australians

The Australian adult literacy website is a key source of information about Australian adult literacy activity, including links to a range of additional programs, professional development, resources, and research sites.

It is part of the Adult Literacy National Project, which funds a diverse range of projects from service provision to research and resource development. The projects enhance adult literacy on a national level. The beneficiaries of these projects include individuals in the community and adult literacy practitioners.

This project aims to:

  • provide language, literacy and numeracy input into a range of existing national policy initiatives
  • ensure the development of quality products to support current literacy practice and provision within the broader vocational education and training sector
  • build models of national collaboration and resource sharing
  • provide quality data and research on language, literacy and numeracy for national use
  • contribute to the professional development of vocational edcuation and training and language, literacy and numeracy practitioners, and
  • provide individuals and communities with resources to support lifelong learning

The Adult Literacy National Project funds projects including:

By funding a mixture of research, resources and professional development in the vocational education and training and community sectors, this national project assists Australians as workers, citizens and learners to improve their literacy and numeracy skills.

Racing industry literacy resource

Among the many resources available via the site is an online resource that embeds literacy learning into the Certificate II in Racing, for jockeys and stablehands. These online materials can be used by instructors in the racing industry in conjunction with other industry specific materials, to encourage and support learners to improve their reading and writing skills along with their skills in racing.

Each of the 5 topics in the resource contribute to the skills required in five of the seven elements on the Unit of Competency RGRH208A "Work effectively in the thoroughbred or standardbred code of the racing industry".

The resource is available free on the website www.staff.vu.edu.au/racing  If a CD copy is requested, a cost recovery price and postage wil be charged.

This page was generated on 26 August, 2009