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TAFELINK Issue No. 3 | August 2007

Feature story

Other news

What's new

Events

Course profiles

Feature story

Defence staff manage complex projects

TAFE NSW is assisting the Defence Materiel Organisation (DMO) to train hundreds of Defence employees across Australia.

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Other news

Staff skills enhanced through voucher programme

Gourmet food manufacturer Earthstar Foods is improving the food processing skills of employees after a welcome financial boost from the Australian Skills Vouchers Programme.

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TAFE NSW gets mobile for confined spaces training

TAFE NSW – Western Institute is expanding its delivery of training for people who need to work or conduct rescues in confined spaces with students and employers benefiting from a new purpose-built trailer equipped for on-site delivery in workplaces around the region.

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Indigenous training initiative implemented

TAFE NSW National Business has formed a training partnership with the NSW Department of Environment and Climate Change (DECC) covering the development and delivery of an Aboriginal Cultural Education program for DECC’s entire staff over the next three years.

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What's new

TAFE NSW Quality Awards – sponsorship opportunities

If you have an interest in aligning your values, products, services or relationships with those of TAFE NSW, then you should consider sponsoring the 2007 TAFE NSW Quality Awards.

Sponsorship of the Awards will position your organisation with the achievement and promotion of best practice in TAFE NSW. In addition, sponsorship of the Awards offers an attractive range of more immediate benefits.

Sponsors are associated with the entire Awards program, but can be directly associated with one of five award categories for the Showcase and the Awards ceremony.

Sponsorship is available for each of 5 categories:

• Teaching and Learning Practices
• Business Relationships
• Planning, Processes and Systems
• Workforce Development
• Safety and Environmental Sustainability

Learning Plan Generators

The Manufacturing, Engineering, Construction & Transport Curriculum Centre (MEC&T) has undertaken to expand the current range of 5 Learning Plan Generators to cover 24 training packages and the NSW Access Employment Education and Training (AEET) framework by December 2007.

Learning Plan Generators allow teachers to perform an analysis of a workplace to determine a suitable qualification. The generators create full training/learning plans, program the delivery, create roll book inserts and perform other labour saving functions. Two levels of Recognition of Prior Learning process are built into each generator to assist learners and teachers in the creation of a customised learning plan.

MEC&T backs up each Learning Plan Generator with a professional development program to learn the application of the tool and provides assistance to licensed users.

The Learning Plan Generator was developed by teachers in an industry environment, and has been continually refined based on feedback by teachers using them in the workplace and in TAFE NSW colleges.

Current Learning Plan Generators are customised to their specific training package and the practitioners’ requirements, assisting RTOs in meeting a range of AQTF standards. MEC&T is committed to developing a Learning Plan Generator for every endorsed training package.

Visit our exhibition booth at:

• VELG National Conference Brisbane, August 9/10 2007
• TLSA Conference Hobart, August 30/31 2007
• 2007 AUSTAFE Conference Darwin, October 4/5 2007

Green Card for Valuers course

TAFE NSW has joined forces with the Australian Property Institute to deliver vital training for the building industry in the Workcover – Green Card Course for Valuers.

This general Occupational Health & Safety (OHS) Induction Training course aims to familiarise participants with the basic principals of OHS in the construction industry.

Completion of this course is a mandatory legal requirement. Such has been the demand for the course that TAFE NSW is running another course at the Australian Property Institute premises in September.

Aged Care courses look to future

With an aging population and the prospect of more and more people requiring aged care in the years to come, TAFE NSW – Riverina Institute is planning for the future. The Institute’s Finley Campus is also running higher level courses in Aged Care, with a Certificate IV in Aged Care Work available from July 2007.

The Certificate IV in Aged Care Work is for people who are employed in aged care work or have prior experience in aged care work who want to develop their knowledge and skills in this area. Graduates from the Certificate IV will be able to work in aged care residential and centre-based services.

Bonded Asbestos – Nominated Supervisors Course

A 4-hour program for people who supervise teams in the area of bonded asbestos removal has been developed by the Manufacturing, Engineering, Construction & Transport Curriculum Centre (MEC&T) in collaboration with TAFE Institutes and WorkCover NSW.

The new course, Bonded Asbestos – Nominated Supervisors, was developed in response to amendments to OHS Regulation 2001. It supports the existing Bonded Asbestos Removal course in addressing the WorkCover NSW licence categories for the safe removal of bonded asbestos.

Events

Agri-Food National Conference 2007

27-28 September 2007
Crowne Plaza, Darling Harbour, Sydney

The second Agri-Food National Conference in Sydney will take place at the Crowne Plaza, Darling Harbour.

The aim is to engage the agri-food industry and bring together eminent speakers to present recent, relevant perspectives on skills development & training, workforce transferability and industry innovation. This should lay the foundation for powerful new ideas and thinking on meeting industry needs for a skilled workforce and how that will be carried out.

Who should attend?

• Decision-makers and change agents from industry, enterprises (small and large), Government and training providers.
• Those with a vested interest in agri-food and in training, enterprises and individuals from across the spectrum of agri-food and vocational education and technical training.

Course profiles

Deal with conflict

Apply Conflict Resolution Strategies – TAFE PLUS Statement

Whether you’re a manager, just trying to deal effectively with colleagues, or want more control over day-to-day interactions, then this course is for you.

You’ll learn how to devise appropriate strategies to achieve effective conflict resolutions which you can take back to work or your daily life.

Gain bar and barista skills

Bar Smart – TAFE PLUS Statement

If you’re interested in a career in hospitality, or just looking to earn some extra cash on the side, then the Bar Smart course covers the four essential skills required for bar work. You will learn about responsible service of alcohol and responsible conduct of gambling, and will gain bar skills and barista (coffee making) skills.

Work with databases

SQL Programming – TAFE PLUS Statement

The information stored on databases is very valuable to business – and you will be too if you understand how to work with them. This course will provide you with the skills to use Structured Query Language (SQL) to manipulate databases using SQL Server. You’ll need to already have a basic understanding of programming and exposure to relational database design.

For more information on TAFE NSW courses, visit www.tafensw.edu.au.

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