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Internet Resources for Education

Post-Compulsory Education

Australian Resources | Overseas Resources | Electronic Journals

	Australian Resources

• Adult Learning Australia
• ANTA: Australian National Training Authority
• Australian Correspondence Schools
• Australian Qualifications Framework
  Unified system of twelve national qualifications in schools, VET and universities.
• AVETRA Australian Vocational Education and Training Research Association
  • 2002 AVETRA Conference
  • Conference Archives
• Create Australia National education and training body for the arts, media and cultural industries.
• Department of Employment, Education, Training and Youth Affairs
• Dusseldorf Skills Forum
  Promotes innovative developments in educational, workplace and community practices
• Enterprise and Career Education Foundation
  • ECEF Online Library Contains downloadable copies of publications related to work place learning, school-business partnerships and programs, case studies and pre 1999 publications
• EdNA Home Page
  Education Network Australia has links to resources for Adult Community Education and VET.
• Flexiblelearning.net.au
  Gateway to national initiatives in flexible and online learning in Australian vocational education and training
• It Pays To Stay Information on training options in Australia
• Learning network Queensland (Formerly Queensland Open Learning Network)
  Offers an wide range of higher education, continuing education and training programs.
• Literacy links for both children and adults.
• National Centre for Vocational Education Research
• National Vocational Education & Training Clearinghouse
  Includes the Vocational Education and Training Database (VOCED).
• NTIS: National Training Information Service
  Database developed by the Australian National Training Authority.
• OLA: Open Learning Australia
  TAFE and tertiary level studies available for study at home.
• OZJAC Australian Courses and Careers Database
• Queensland Vocational Education and Training Information
  Queensland Department of Employment and Training
• School to Work
  Education Queensland information on activities to prepare students for post school options and choices.
• UTS Research Centre for Vocational Education and Training
  • RCVET Research Publications
  • Links to Vocational Education sites
• VECO: Vocational Education Community Online
• Vocational Education and Training - VET in Schools Education Queensland information, including the statement "Vocational Education and Training in Schools: Future directions" (.pdf file, 5 pages)
• VOCED Database
  From the National Vocational Education and Training Clearinghouse. References to research reports, evaluation studies, journal articles, theses etc.

Online Publications

• Hang on Tight! All aboard for the New World: Language, Literacy and Numeracy Support Final Report on the ANTA/DVET Language, Literacy and Numeracy Support Project, March 1998

	Overseas Resources

• Adult Learning Documentation and Information Network (ALADIN)
  An initiative of the Documentation Centre of the UNESCO Institute for Education which brings together a network over 90 adult learning documentation and information services in all regions of the world.
• ERIC Clearinghouse on Adult, Career and Vocational Education
  • ERIC/ACVE Publications Includes fulltext
• International Council for Adult Education

	Electronic Journals

• Australian Training Review Selected articles
• Continuing Professional Development
  Refereed international journal on continuing education and lifelong learning
• ERIC/ACVE- Journals on the Web
  List of websites that include either full text or tables of contents and abstracts for the journals that ERIC/ACVE indexes and abstracts in Current Index to Journals in Education
• ERIC/ ACVE In-Process Abstracts
  Read the abstracts weeks before they appear in ERIC

• Info Alert

• Research in Post-Compulsory Education
• Studies in the Education of Adults
  International refereed academic journal. Abstracts only are available.
• Training Agenda Journal of vocational education and training (VET) from NSW TAFE.

Education Resources

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Please contact Helen Hooper if you have any comments, suggestions or additions.

Links checked November 2001; Updated September 2002 by lbcy,
Information and Research Support, James Cook University.