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Vegneskumar Maniam; Veronica McKay; Robert Boughton – Studies in the Education of Adults, 2025
In 2008 the South African Government launched the "Kha Ri Gude" mass literacy campaign to address the country's adult illiteracy problem. The Campaign drew upon the Cuban "Yo, Si Puedo" campaign model. In 2012, an Australian non-governmental organisation, Literacy for Life Foundation, likewise informed by the Cuban "Yo, Si…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adult Literacy, Illiteracy, Models
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Nakar, Sonal; Bagnall, Richard G.; Hodge, Steven – Australian Educational Researcher, 2018
This paper reviews the nature and implementation of the Australian VET FEE-HELP (VFH) policy initiative: a scheme introduced in 2008 to extend income-contingent loans to the vocational education and training (VET) sector in Australia. We argue that the implementation of the scheme has been seriously flawed, leading to a range of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocational Education Teachers, Reflection, Ethics
Lonsdale, Michele; Ingvarson, Lawrence – ACER Press (Australian Council for Educational Research), 2003
This paper is in response to an invitation from the Victorian Department of Education and Training to undertake a targeted review of effective teaching recruitment strategies. The paper provides a "snapshot" of what is happening in other States and Territories and in selected countries overseas. The main focus of the review is on the…
Descriptors: Teacher Shortage, Foreign Countries, Politics of Education, Teacher Recruitment
Harrison, Craig; Barnett, Kate – 2001
One strategy to increase participation in vocational education and training (VET) by Australians with a disability involves intervention at the secondary school level to reduce early school leaving by providing structured VET learning and work placement opportunities. The Enterprise Career Education Foundation's Lighthouse initiative, which was…
Descriptors: Action Research, Agency Cooperation, Apprenticeships, Cooperative Planning