2019 AGM and speaker

Photo by Rodrigo De Mendoza on Unsplash Members and friends of VALBEC are invited to the Annual General Meeting of the Council and a presentation by Magistrate Therese McCarthy. Wednesday, April 3, 2019, 6.00pm Dinner afterwards at own expense St Georges Restaurant,...

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Brain Science workshop

Adult Literacy:  Teaching Learning and Brain Science. An informative and interactive workshop which will give participants tools to enhance their teaching practice while working with marginalised adult learners. Do you work...

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VALBEC seeks conf admin

VALBEC seeks conf admin

As part of VALBEC's commitment to provide quality professional learning to its members, an annual conference is organised, usually in May of each year. Our long term conference administrator, Don MacDowall, has done a great job for many years, however, he...

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VALBEC turns 40

VALBEC celebrated it's fortieth birthday with a large card at the ACAL conference and invited particpants to add a comment. Scroll down to see an enlargement of each page.

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Resources Research

Resources Research

Calling all adult literacy supporters – we need your input! With support from the Reading Writing Hotline and State Library of Victoria, Adult Literacy Connect is currently conducting research towards establishing an online portal of quality curated teaching and...

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New Life Members

It was with great pleasure that the VALBEC committee recognised the commitment to the Adult LLN field, and in particular, VALBEC,  by awarding Lynne Matheson and Sarah Deasey Life Membership. Lynne Matheson has been a member of VALBEC and the committee for...

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New logo

New logo

We are turning 40 years old this year and have decided to have a bit of a facelift! This is our new logo. This is still reminiscent of the old logo but hinting at the digital aspect of new literacies.

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