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- Social Enterprise
Good to Wear, Made for Good – The Social Outfit Opens The Doors
The Social Outfit has opened the doors at their retail shop in Newtown, Sydney. 'Good to Wear, Made for Good' cleverly sums up this fashion social enterprise in Sydney's Inner West.
- Alternative Learning
Learning Choices Case Studies — Tenison Woods College Flexible Learning Program, South Australia
Check out our Learning Choices Case Studies where you can delve deeper to explore the real work organisations are doing to keep young people connected to learning.
- Maranguka, Place Based Change, Youth Justice
Justice reinvestment in Bourke
During 2013, members of the Justice Reinvestment campaign, the Bourke Aboriginal Community Working Party and the Australian Human Rights Commission worked together to develop a proposal for implementing justice reinvestment in Bourke.
- Education
Martians and Pirates: a gateway to creative learning
Author David Eggers grew up around teachers. In 2000, he became aware that his teacher friends were struggling with large class sizes and little time to offer one-to-one attention to their students.
- Education
Social and Emotional Wellbeing of Indigenous Youth – Muru Marri Report
A discussion with The Aspiration Initiative (TAI) staff about the Muru Marri Report on the Social and Emotional Wellbeing of Indigenous Youth.
- Vocational Education
Simplicity is the solution – Sanitation in South Africa and Nepal
WorldSkills Competition Gold Medalists Shane Trevitt (UK) and Ciaran Coady (Ireland) recently visited Diepsloot, South Africa to help Australian company Healthabitat implement a Sanitation Studio.
- Education
Images That Talk
With another school term underway comes The Sydney Story Factory’s new after school program ‘Radio with Pictures.’ This program will see participants create a series of animated stories.
- Education
Transforming Young People’s Lives
Jasper, aged 8, has been coming to Sydney Story Factory for three terms. He has a problem with hyper-mobility in his hand, which means he has trouble holding a pencil.
- Education
Opportunity knocks – Building Futures for Young Australians workshop May 7, 2014
On May 7, a group of alternative learning organisations gathered at Melbourne University to workshop and advance some exciting new developments in the Building Futures project as it faces a new phase in its development – a public web site.
- Education
Open Learning Forum
Participants from all walks of life joined international speaker and author David Price OBE and Professor James Arvanitakis from the University of Western Sydney for an evening of provocation and discussion on the shifting nature of education in the 21st Century.
- Social Enterprise
Pitch Perfect
Recently The Social Outfit was asked to pitch for financial support at The Funding Network, an organisation that helps social entrepreneurs showcase their work, secure funding and expand their donor base.
- Education
Creativity is a universal language
The Social Outfit ran a fashion and sewing project with the Intensive English Centre at Fairfield High School from July to September 2013. Ten newly arrived students from Iraq, Iran and Syria undertook accredited design and sewing classes.
- Social Enterprise
Doors are opening for The Social Outfit
The Social Outfit signed the lease on 353 King Street in February and are now in the process of fitting out their new training, retail and manufacturing hub.
- Social Enterprise
A year of firsts – Bread and Butter Project
The Bread & Butter Project is celebrating their one year anniversary as Australia’s first social enterprise bakery. With the support of their board, staff, friends and numerous foundations, they have come a very long way in 12 months.
- Education
The science of long-term engagement
NISEP’s science expos have proved time and again to be the most effective way to stimulate interest in education and science, develop links with schools and local communities and provide students with information about tertiary education.
- Education
Ripple Work makes waves
Dusseldorp Forum are partnering with The Aspiration Initiative (TAI) to deliver an adjunct program of hands-on professional development for teachers and staff employed in over 15 NSW schools in which TAI students are currently enrolled.
- Education
Fire, Friction and Culture on Country
On 7th and 8th of April 2014, NISEP staff were invited to a “Fire, Friction and Cultural Connections” workshop hosted by the Nature Conservation Council on the NSW North Coast.
- Education
How the technological revolution impacts work – Open Learning Forum
As well as observing how social learning has impacted the way people acquire new information and skills, David Price OBE has also spent a lot of time exploring how the technological revolution has impacted the world of work.
- Education
What make social learning so effective? – Open Learning Forum
A core theme running through Open: How We’ll Work, Live & Learn in the Future is the need for formal educational settings to recognise and incorporate more of the factors that make social learning so engaging, impactful and effective.
- Education
Virtual 3D learning in Singapore
Worldskills Champions Michael Christensen (Canada) and Simon Noerdjan (Suriname) are half way through a three-month adventure in Singapore where they are taking part in the second WorldSkills and Institute of Technical Education (ITE) Virtual 3D Learning Innovation Lab.
- Philanthropy
Emily Tow Jackson Visits Australia
Emily Tow Jackson is the Executive Director of the Tow Foundation, a major catalyst for United States juvenile justice reform. The Tow Foundation has a powerful record of results in this area.
