Relish and HEAT: A Mother’s Day for everyone

What do you get if you mix together some cooking tips from renowned chefs, a lot of goodwill and stir in a pinch of community spirit? Great food for good causes.

Relish is an initiative of the Rotary Club of St Kilda and shares recipes from local restaurants and cafes operating in St Kilda, Prahran, South Melbourne, Malvern and Elwood areas. The HEAT (Hospitality Employment and Training) cookbook features recipes and cooking tips from well known chefs such as Guy Grossi as well as heartfelt stories from young people whose lives have been changed forever by participating in training programs.

This Mother’s Day you can grab mum two recipe books for a special deal of $35 and feel good in the process.

All proceeds from The Relish and HEAT recipe books go to a range of charities and the HEAT hospitality training program, all working to improve the lives of people in need, both locally and overseas.

Purchase both books before Monday, 3 May to be in the running to win a special Mother’s Day treat.

You could be the favourite child as up for grabs is a three course lunch at Mirka at Tolarno’s Hotel for four people, designed by Guy Grossi, a beautiful bouquet and a box of Cacao’s award winning chocolates.

The books can be bought from the HEAT and Relish websites.

www.heat.org.au or www.relishrecipes.com.au

Further information/photos:
Julia Topliss
Rotary Club of St Kilda
Ph: 0411 364 004
Email: pr@stkildarotary.org.au

National Centre for Vocational Education Research

For parents who believe a child’s happiness is linked to having a degree, it may surprise them to learn that apprentices are just as happy as university graduates, according to a report released by the National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER).

Education and happiness in the school-to-work transition examines the relationship between individuals’ highest level of education and their self-rated happiness. It is based on extensive information provided by young people over 10 years of their lives (15 to 25 years), as part of the Longitudinal Surveys of Australian Youth (LSAY).

Education and happiness in the school-to-work transition can be downloaded from www.lsay.edu.au/publications/2239.html

For media enquiries or interviews with Dr Tom Karmel or Dr Mike Dockery, contact Anna Payton on 08 8230 8638 or Colleen Young, Marketing Services NCVER on 08 8230 8496/0414 584 142.

Full day professional development workshop

Innovation and Business Skills Australia (IBSA) in conjunction with Clear Space Organising is offering professional development workshops nationally.

This full day workshop will provide you with practical skills and knowledge to help you maximise your effectiveness in the workplace.

The workshop covers:
Eliminate paper clutter with a proven paper-flow system
Manage your emails so they don't sabotage your day
Learn how to spend your time on what really matters
Clear your head by managing your tasks effectively
Learn strategies for overcoming procrastination.

National Career Development Week 2010

National Career Development Week launched its 2010 campaign, with a special community career development forum, hosted by NCDW ambassador Steve Liebmann, guest speakers and inspiring career stories from extra-ordinary local people.

The Launch Your Future - get the life you love! Forum, an initiative of the National Career Development Week Team, held in conjunction with the Macquarie Fields community organisations who form the Learning, Employment and Economic Development Group (LEED), shows what can be achieved when a community works together to improve the career development prospects of its residents.

Celebration week is from 17 to 23 May, but you can be involved through events at any time of the year.

Register your events and receive an Australian 1st video series

Bold Ideas Better Lives Challenge

Got a great idea for creating better lives for people in Australia? Want access to amazing mentors and a bucket of cash (up to $1million) to get your idea off the ground?

The Australian Centre for Social Innovation is giving you the chance to turn your big idea into big impact. We’re committed to supporting up to 10 projects that show the best and brightest ideas in social innovation across Australia. Your idea could deal with anything from healthcare to education, climate change to the internet as long as it addresses a social need faced by communities in Australia.

Want to know more? Get more information or apply online on our website - http://www.tacsi.org.au/challenge, or you can contact Erin Green (challenge@tacsi.org.au) to find out more.

e-works PD Program

Adding the 'e' to e-learning action learning PD Program.

This program begins 1 March 2010 and involves 5 days of face-to-face support with 1 hour elluminate sessions between these days.

Contact Debbie Soccio - Debbie.Soccio@eworks.edu.au for details

NCVER Papers

Just off the press ...
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Vocational education and training workforce data 2008: A compendium
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_Editor: Hugh Guthrie_
This is a compendium of three reports. The first examines the size and attributes of the vocational education and training (VET) workforce using a variety of data sources. The second looks more specifically at TAFE's workforce. The final report considers the feasibility of a national VET workforce collection.
http://www.ncver.edu.au/publications/2218.html
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The role of vocational education and training in the labour market outcomes of
people with disabilities
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_Cain Polidano, Kostas Mavromaras_
Low levels of education generally among people with a disability is one of the factors contributing to their lower rate of labour market participation. The role vocational education and training (VET) plays in ameliorating this is the focus of this report.
http://www.ncver.edu.au/publications/2215.html
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What would it take? Employer perspectives on employing people with a
disability
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_Peter Waterhouse, Helen Kimberley, Pam Jonas, John Glover_
The purpose of this study was to answer the question 'what would it take' to enable employers to employ people with a disability.
http://www.ncver.edu.au/publications/2219.html
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Building capability in vocational education and training providers: The TAFE
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_Hugh Guthrie, Berwyn Clayton_
This paper focuses on issues which affect the capability of TAFE providers to meet their clients' and stakeholders' needs and draws extensively on the reports of the consortium research program which examined ways to help build vocational education and training (VET) provider and workforce capability.
http://www.ncver.edu.au/publications/2224.html