Launch of Victorian $23 million skills training initiative. The Victorian Minister for Skills, Jacinta Allan, today launched Victoria's Skills Stores - a four year, $23.46 million initiative to encourage Victorians to undertake further education and training, recognise existing skills and help employers meet emerging skill needs. Ms Allan said the initiative would also award 5,000 Skills Stores' clients with grants of $250 to assist with the cost of formal recognition of skills at a TAFE or other registered training organisation. "People can literally walk in off the street into one of our Skills Stores and get free expert advice about their current skills, future skill development options and training they need to turn their skills into qualifications." Ms Allan said. Minister for Skills, 17 July 2007. [edna education news]
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Future Minds Forum 2007.

Future Minds Forum

Friday July 6th 2007

We live in a time of vast changes that include accelerating globalization, mounting quantities of information, the growing hegemony of science and technology and the clash of civilizations. Those changes call for new ways of thinking in school, business and the professions.

Professor Gardner defines the cognitive abilities that will command a premium in the future... the Five Minds for the Future:

• the disciplinary mind
• the synthesizing mind
• the creating mind
• the respectful mind
• the ethical mind

Armed with these well-honed capacities, a person will be equipped to deal with what is expected in the future - as well as what cannot be anticipated. Without these “minds” individuals will be at the mercy of forces they can’t understand - overwhelmed by information, unable to succeed in the workplace and incapable of making judicious decisions about personal and professional matters.

Howard Gardner

“One of the most influential psychologists of his generation”
-The Economist

“By most accounts, Howard Gardner is the most influential living theorist in the education world today”
- NEA Today

The Board of the Central Ranges LLEN, in conjunction with the Hume and Loddon Mallee Regional Offices of Education and the Department of Education are please to present a forum with Professor Howard Gardner.

 

Future Minds Forum 2007

[Central Ranges LLEN News]
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New Minister and "Super" Ministry for Education. Former Victorian education minister John Lenders has been named as Treasurer in Premier John Brumby's new Cabinet.

Premier John Brumby has made major changes to the planning, education, and community portfolios in the Cabinet reshuffle announced this afternoon.

The Hon. Bronwyn Pike will head what the Government calls a new "super department" for Education and Early Childhood Development, assisted by new Cabinet member Maxine Morand.

Ms Morand will become the Minister for Children and Early Childhood Development.

Under the plan, children's services will move from Human Services to Ms Pike's new department.

"It will be great news importantly for young children... starting off in the kindergarten system and being better prepared as they go on to school and later in life," Mr Brumby said.

The full press release with the entire Cabinet rundown, can be downloaded from here.

 

[Central Ranges LLEN News]
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