Language Literacy and Numeracy Web links

Language Literacy and Numeracy Web links

National
Australian The Australian Council for Adult Literacy (ACAL) promotes adult literacy and
Council for numeracy policy and practice in Australia. A national peak body, its state
Adult Literacy offices can be contacted by visiting ACAL's website: http://www.acal.edu.au/

Australian Australian Government Skills Connect is designed to provide businesses

Government large and small with access to the right sort of Australian Government
Skills Connect assistance, resources and funding for maximising your most valuable
resource - your workforce. Workforce planning and development can assist
you to revitalise your business by energising and empowering your
employees. It can help you to identify and attract the right employees, then
guide your investment in training, up-skilling or re-skilling staff and help to
ensure that Australian Apprenticeships work for you and satisfy your business
needs: http://skillsconnect.gov.au/

Language, The LLNP provides language, literacy and numeracy training for eligible
Literacy and clients. The program seeks to improve clients' language, literacy and/or
Numeracy numeracy with the expectation that such improvements will enable them to
Program participate more effectively in training or in the labour force and lead to
(LLNP) greater gains for society in the longer term. Eligible clients are referred to an
LLNP provider by Referring Agencies, currently Centrelink and Job Network
Members. Visit the DEEWR-administered LLNP website for more information
at: http://www.innovation.gov.au/Skills/LiteracyAndNumeracy/LanguageLitera
cyAndNumeracyProgram/Pages/default.aspx

Literacy Net LiteracyNet contains key information about Australian adult literacy activity
and links to a range of additional programme, professional development,
resources, and research
sites: http://www.innovation.gov.au/Skills/LiteracyAndNumeracy/LiteracyNet/P
ages/default.aspx

National The NCVER is Australia's principal provider of vocational education and

Centre for training (VET) research and statistics: http://www.ncver.edu.au/
Vocational
Education
Research
(NCVER)

Reading and The reading and writing hotline is a national telephone adult literacy referral

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Writing Hotline service, funded by the Australian Government Department of Education,
Science and Training.
Experienced teachers can provide callers with advice on ways to improve
reading, writing, and numeracy skills and give information on adult literacy
and numeracy classes in your local area. The hotline is open 24 hours.
Phone 1300 6555 06 from anywhere in Australia at the cost of a local call. All
enquiries are confidential: http://www.literacyline.edu.au/. Also see
DIISRTE Evaluation of the Reading Writing Hotline, August 2012

Service Service Skills Australia is the Industry Skills Council for the Australian service
Industries industries. It is responsible for developing and maintaining industry Training
Skills Council Packages and providing advice to industry, government and the VET system
(Service Skills in relation to skills developmen: http://www.serviceskills.com.au/
Australia)

VOCED Find out what resources have been produced from the Workplace English
Database Language and Literacy (WELL) Programme and the Adult Literacy National
Project (ALNP) by visiting VOCED, a free research database for technical
and vocational education and training. Visiting the site will provide you with
bibliographic records of resources, including author, title, date, publication
type, abstract, subject headings and an availability statement about where the
resources can be purchased or borrowed: http://www.voced.edu.au/

Workplace The main aim of the WELL Programme is to provide funding to organisations
English to train workers in English language, literacy and numeracy skills. This
Language and funding is available to organisations for language and literacy training linked
Literacy to job-related workplace training and is designed to help workers meet their
(WELL) current and future employment and training
Program need http://www.innovation.gov.au/Skills/LiteracyAndNumeracy/WorkplaceEn
glishLanguageAndLiteracy/Pages/default.aspx

International
Embedded The materials on this portal have been produced for use by teachers in the
Learning UK coming from vocational, professional and community education
Portal - UK backgrounds and also for teachers from specialist literacy, language and
numeracy backgrounds:http://rwp.qia.oxi.net/embeddedlearning/search.cfm

Nald@work - A recently launched Canadian web resource that provides an employer-

Canada friendly interface into the Canadian National Adult Literacy Database (NALD).
This online repository, containing program models, teaching and learning
materials, assessment tools and research documents can be found
at: http://www.naldatwork.ca/

New Zealand The New Zealand literacy portal is designed to provide a knowledge base of
adult literacy information contributed by both New Zealand and international

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Literacy Portal organisations: http://www.nzliteracyportal.org.nz/

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