What's new? - website updates

This page is a chronological record of VECO website updates. It's purpose is to record new content rather than 'housekeeping' so it does not include minor edits or temporary items such as calendar and noticeboard items.

December 2000

Project Gallery (additions)
indicates ASTF priority areas project

• Midland Districts School Industry Training Association (Pushing the Boundaries)
• Wodonga Options for Work and Education(Years 9&10)
• Rural opportunities for Younger Australians (Rural and Remote)
• An introduction to the Mornington Peninsula Wine Industry (Urban)
• Seafood Training SA Early Intervention Project (Indigenous)
• Hobart Urban Priority Project (Urban)
•  Albury/Wodonga Indigenous Project 
•  Indigenous Youth Art Gallery: St Mary's Millenium Art Project (Indigenous)
•   Riverina Coordinators Network Final Report (Pushing the Boundaries)

November 2000

• Guided tour for Net*Working 2000 visitors

Project Gallery (additions/updates)
indicates ASTF priority areas project

•   Bowden Brompton Community Schools - Pathways Program (Pushing the Boundaries)
• ASTF Wadu Demonstration Program (Indigenous)
• Time for Work - Proserpine State High School (Years 9 & 10)
• Transition to process manufacturing in Melbourne's western region  (Urban)
• ASTF Lighthouse project - (Disabilities)
• Manufacturing - Careers in the Making  (Pushing the Boundaries)
•   FLAME - Flexible Learning and Alternative Mobile Education (Pushing the Boundaries)
• Sydney Christian Schools VET Cluster (Urban)
• Linking Young People and Industry - 2000 (Urban)

Program Registry (additions)

• Wodonga Options for Work and Education (9/10 Vic)

October 2000

• Rural & Remote/ Years 9&10 seminar report

Project Gallery (additions)
indicates ASTF priority areas project

• It's a RARE Pathway (Rural & Remote)
• WAVES Indigenous Vocational Strategy (Indigenous)
• Islands Hospitality Program (Rural & Remote)
• Cooloola Schools Cluster Work Readiness Program (Years 9 & 10)

Resources Library (additions)

• Future Finder-course and careers information
• No Bull- say no to bullying in the workplace
• Internet Directory of Organisations working with young Australians

September 2000

• Net links page for young people - updated

Project Gallery  (additions)
  indicates ASTF priority areas project

• Aboriginal Workplacements
• Pilbara Enterprise and Vocational Education in Remote Community Schools (Indigenous)
• FutureSkills:DeadlySkills Multimedia Project (Indigenous)
•   Case Study: Indulkana School & Community Radio (Indigenous)
• Charters Towers ROYA Project (Rural & Remote)
• WISE (Workplacement linking Industries and Schools in Emerald) (Rural & Remote)
• Rural Futures for Griffith (Rural and Remote)
• National coordination project - Forest Industries (Rural & Remote)
• QFVG-Banana Agribusiness Project (Rural & Remote)
• Trangie & Beyond Program (Rural & Remote)
• Rural Skills Agribusiness – Project Management Report (Rural & Remote)
• Urban Priority Project ­ Hobart, Tasmania (Urban)
• Doorways 2 Construction (Urban)
• Working Through Change (Years 9&10)
• The Dover Community Enterprise Learning Project (Years 9 & 10)
• YEAR 9 - 10 PATHWAYS PROGRAM
•   Community Based Learning at Cooroora (Years 9 & 10)
• Bridge to Bridge (Pushing the Boundaries)
• IYE Solutions (Pushing the Boundaries)
• Riverina Co-ordinators Network (Pushing the Boundaries)
• Bowden Brompton Community School Tutorial Centre (Pushing the Boundaries)
• Brotherhood of St Laurence Transition Project Phase 2 (Pushing the Boundaries) 

Resources Library (additions)

• Indigenous School to Work Transition
• Duty Statement - GRVEC Executive Officer
• Training and Youth Online - DETYA newsletter

August 2000

• Community Based Learning: VECO online guest web
• Special Focus Networks index page updated

Program Registry (additions)

• smb2000 - Smart Adolescent Behaviour  (9/10 NSW)

Resources Library (additions)

• Transition Teams (community based learning - UK)
• Complimenting the Placement (community based learning - UK)
• Motivated by Choice (community based learning - UK)
• Partners in a Learning Culture: national strategy and blueprint (indigenous)
• TAFE, University or work: the early preferences and choices of students in years 10. 11 and 12
• Exploring Careers in the South East
• Workplacement programs keep some at school

July 2000

• Event report: International Careers Conference (including links to resources)
• Wadu-net homepage updated

Program Registry (additions)

• Doorways to Construction (11/12 SA)
• Manufacturing Learning Centres (11/12 SA)

Resources library (additions)

• Survey Results: VET for Aboriginal students: how effective is it?
• Cape York Partnerships

June 2000

• OH&S for VET in schools: Online guest web

Program Registry (additions)

• Rural Futures for Griffith(9/10 NSW)
• Manufacturing Learning Centres (11/12 SA)
• Yass Student to Industry Program (11/12 NSW)
• Forest Industries: National Coordination Project (11/12 national)
• Bowen VET access Project: (11/12 Tas)

Resources library

• Working with Indigenous Australians: a handbook for psychologists
• Youth Work Safety Package
• Guidance on OH&S in New Apprenticeships
• National Guidelines for the Integration of OHS Competencies into Industry Competency standards

May 2000

Program Registry (additions)

• Wongutha CAPS School to Work Transition Program (11/12 WA)
• Pine Shire Industry School Links Scheme: (11/12 Qld)
• Music Industry Skills: (11/12 national)
• Dover Community Enterprise Learning Project (9/10 Tas)

Resources library

• Bridging Pathways
• (R Sweet): The Jigsaw Revisited: Comparative Perspectives on Transitions
• (R Sweet): Retrospective and Prospective Pathway Engineering: Comparative Perspectives

April 2000

• Bright Futures and You! Online guest web

Program Registry (additions)

• Alliance of Schools new Apprenticeship Program (ASNAP inc) (11/12 Qld)
• ONELINK Building Partnership (11/12 Victoria)

March 2000

• VECO Roundup - February summary
• Assessment online guest archives completed
• Upgrades and improved searching to Program Registry and Resources Library

Program Registry (additions)

• Charters Towers Secondary Schools Workplace Learning Program Inc.(11/12 Qld)
• Riverland School Industry Links(11/12 SA)
• SWIS-Link: South West Independent Schools Vocational Progam(11/12 WA)

Resources library

• ASTF Quick Tips 7: Winning the support of parents for your SWL program
• Senior secondary curriculum choice and entry into post-secondary vocational education
• What's happening with VET in Senior Secondary Schools (1998)
• Vocational Education in Senior Secondary Schools Project (1998)
• Workplace Learning Coordinators - Benchmark Salaries (VETNETwork, 2000)
• Australian VET statistics 1998: Students undertaking VET (at a glance)
• Assessment Resources for VET in Schools (1999)

January - February 2000

• Event report: Tumut Skills Auction
• Reworking 9-10 Bulletin 5
• Calendar updated for year 2000 events
• Coordinators Avoid Burnout - Top Tips

Program Registry (additions)

• Hervey Bay Student Industry Training & Experience (11/12 NSW)
• Work Studies 2000 course (11/12 NSW)

Resources library

• The Future of Workplace Learning (Ballarat seminar report - Nov 1999)
• EPIC Careers CD ROM

current updates

First published January 21, 2000. Last modified December 8, 2000.