Neighbourhood Houses & Learning Centres
November 15, 2005
Cairns resident Kevin Edmondstone, a 38 year-old, originally from Yarrabah, has gone from award-winning Indigenous student artist to art teacher in the space of a year. Kevin is now working as a tutor for the Visual Arts team at the […]
November 1, 2005
The Bairnsdale Neighbourhood House (BNH)in Victoria’s East Gippsland region runs a monthly ‘Volunteer Recognition Program’. Each month BNH holds a morning tea where they recognise the most outstanding contribution for the month. Volunteers get to know one another and find […]
October 19, 2005
Most Neighbourhood Houses are actually houses with several rooms and the capacity to run many courses and generate income – NOT the case with the Warrandyte Neighbourhood House in Melbourne’s NE fringe! This House operates in the Community Centre and […]
October 5, 2005
Yarram’s Community Learning Centre targets students struggling with the mainstream system. Eight teenage boys agree the program is ‘great’, that the members of the Men’s Shed are ‘awesome’. The Mentoring Program was runner-up in the Innovation in ACE category of […]
September 22, 2005
Melbourne’s Prahran Neighbourhood House (PNH)is a busy centre for more than 20 cultural groups. Each week programs bring around 2000 people to the centre and classes attract another 740. This week PNH was listed in ‘Your Guide to Victoria’s NOT […]
September 7, 2005
TRAVEL CONCESSIONS are available to all under-graduate students in Victoria EXCEPT overseas students. “Discrimination!” says Marc Barry, Activities Coordinator for international students at RMIT English Worldwide, the university’s language education arm, in Melbourne. Marc both teaches English and coordinates student […]
August 25, 2005
Pre-contact, historic and contemporary artefacts, artworks and photographs make up the Koorie Heritage Trust’s curatorial collection – unique in its focus on south-eastern indigenous culture. The Collection is housed at the Trust’s Cultural Centre on the corner of Little Lonsdale […]
August 24, 2005
Quality lifestyle for owners of a ‘non-accredited’ regional School of Fine Art & Study Tour business
Pat and Mick Waters did NOT do exactly as their 6 month business studies course suggested. They were mature-age students – Pat, a practising artist and TAFE art teacher with 30 years experience, and Mick, a fine arts craftsman. They […]
August 10, 2005
Seven training providers across Australia are about to begin e-learning trial programs for young people aged between 15 and 19. The 2005 Australian Flexible Learning Framework (2005 Framework) has allocated AUD$150,000 under its E-learning for Target Learner Groups Youth Project. […]
August 10, 2005
2000-2005 A long and Winding Road…..passing on FLN Coordinator’s newsletter: Anne Horrigan-Dixon writes: In the last 5 weeks I have had time to think about what has happened to Australia in that time and think what it has meant for […]
July 27, 2005
A northern Victorian PWF reader, impressed by the Echuca Neighbourhood House (NH) Term 3 Guide, has passed it on. When you read what Echuca offers – similar to most Houses responding to their community’s needs – it is hard to […]
July 27, 2005
The calls to boost skilled migrant numbers to solve our skill shortages can only work if migrants can FIND work in which they are qualified, yet the job search, daunting enough for locals, is even worse for migrants, with no […]