Central Australian Education and Training Network
(CAETN)
This project is funded by DEST’s Reframing the Future
project. It is being managed by Alicia Boyle/Charles Darwin
University. The CAETN has established a Community of Practice
across Central Australia to develop ways of working both within and
between providers and organisations with the aim of improving
outcomes for stakeholders with an interest in Indigenous
education.
The aim of the project is to build on and exchange knowledge so as
to develop members’ capabilities to ensure provision of
Indigenous demand-responsive education and training whilst
operating within new Commonwealth governance arrangements including
Indigenous Coordination Centres, Shared Responsibility Agreements,
and with regard to changes to the Community Development Employment
Program, Remote Area Exemptions and the Job Network.
This project brings together all public and private providers, job
network agencies, DEWR, DEET, ICC, LGANT and others to action
initiatives to meet its aims. The document repository for this
project is hosted on the Desert Knowledge CRC website.
Growing the Desert: Effective educational pathways for
remote Indigenous people
This project is funded by the National Centre for Vocational
Education Research (NCVER http://www.ncver.edu.au) and is nearing
completion after two years with the project final report due at the
end of August. The final stage of the research has seen the
undertaking of four case studies across desert Australia, with
Newmont Mines in WA, Waltja based in Alice Springs, Murdi Paaki
Regional Assembly in western NSW and DesArt with the Mutitjulu
Community.
BVET (NSW Board of Vocational Education and Training)
– Putting Skills and Innovation to Work
Conference
The Desert Knowledge CRC was invited to speak at this conference
held on the 27–28th June in Sydney. Alicia Boyle represented
the Desert Knowledge CRC at this most interesting conference and
all presentations are available at
http://www.skillecosystem.net/events/1144301815_3981_20060406.html
