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Success Stories

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

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