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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Workplace Literacy and Numeracy Learning: An Opportunity for Trade Union Renewal in Australia?
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Yasukawa, Keiko; Brown, Tony; Black, Stephen – International Journal of Training Research, 2012
This paper first examines the current literacy and numeracy "crisis" in Australian workplaces where loss of productivity, lack of take-up in training, and skills shortages are being blamed on workers' lack of literacy and numeracy skills. Literacy and numeracy in workplaces are more complex and require alternative understandings of literacy and…
Descriptors: Workplace Literacy, Unions, Numeracy, Foreign Countries
Education for Organising in a Hot Climate: A Manufacturing Union's Experience
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Brown, Tony – International Journal of Training Research, 2006
This paper reports on research into a national education program within one of Australia's largest trade unions. The program was designed to assist the union's staff and elected officials respond to the rapidly changing industrial and political conditions in the manufacturing sector. It is ambitious in scope comprising sixteen modules that range…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Manufacturing, Unions, Politics