NSW Adult Literacy & Numeracy Council
The professional body for adult literacy and numeracy in NSW
As the peak professional body in NSW representing teachers, workers and others interested in the field of adult literacy and numeracy the Council has a voice in policy and its implmentation.
The NSW Adult Literacy and Numeracy Council provided feedback on the Australian Government’s Discussion paper – Delivery of the Skills for Education and Employment (SEE) Program 2023. The Council believes this review of the SEE program is a timely opportunity for a critical review of what the current SEE program has achieved and what a future program could and should aspire to achieve. We look forward to a fresh and ambitious program and a supporting policy that places Australia as an international leader in a socially progressive and quality education program for vulnerable adults. NSWALNCFeedbackPDF.
The NSWALNC's submission can be viewed on the Parliamentary Website or as a PDF.
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2019 Submission to the VET Review
The NSWALNC made a submission to the VET Review. Our submission focused on priorities in the area of adult literacy and numeacy/ foundation skills.
2018 Submission to PWC for input into the case for change of the TAE training package.
2017 marked 40 years since the establishment of the NSW Adult Literacy and Numeracy Council and the establishment of the Australian Council for Adult Literacy. The 2017 NSW ALNC Conference was a forum in which participants considered the different spaces in which ABE demands exist, and what participants in the field can do to shape the ways in which the demands could be met. We asked: Where are the spaces to debate policy, practice and pedagogy in ABE?
Keynote Speaker Presentations
2017 Letter to NSW Minister for Education, Rob Stokes
2017 Letter to Managinging Director of TAFE, Jon Black
2017 Feedback to: Foundation Skills Professional Standards Framework
The NSW Council for Adult Literacy and Numeracy appreciate this opportunity to provide feedback on the draft Foundation Skills Professional Standards Framework (February 2017). Some of our members had attended the workshops held in Sydney in March, which they found helpful in understanding some of the assumptions and intent of the Framework and the associated tools.
The Council is the peak professional body for adult literacy and numeracy practitioners, including teachers, trainers, program managers, and researchers in NSW. We have been involved in the professional development of LLN practitioners, and advocacy for the field for 40 years. We hope the feedback that draws on our collective knowledge and experience in the field will be considered in the next stage of development of the Professional Standards Framework.
We limit our feedback to the following four key areas:
1. The professional competency model of expertise
2. Domains of the Standard
3. The uses of the Framework
4. The concept of Foundation Skills (download to see more)
In 2016 the Council conducted a survey of members to gain a picture of the NSW adult literacy and numeracy workforce and their current concerns for their students and the adult literacy and numeracy field. There were 78 respondents to the survey and their profiles mirror those in similar workforce surveys: predominately female, mostly employed part time, delivering face to face training in a classroom setting and an ageing workforce. A summary of responses can be downloaded here.
