Gwen's WOW pointed to ‘Future Directions’ and more...

Gwen from Petersham Outreach took her WOW class to the Ultimo campus where they exposed to an array of options for further study. One was an inspirational presentation urging them to consider study in science. They were exposed to a range of family friendly career options that could follow on.
Gwen ended the day encouraging the students to go to the Strand arcade and see the Ultimo College fashion design students show alongside Australia’s best fashion designers in the ‘Future Directions’ show.





Photo's by Gwen Berger

IWD 2007

Congratulations to everyone for another wonderful International Women's Day!

We had a lot of variety in events across TAFE NSW.

The WOW students from Outreach at Mt. Druitt TAFE hosted a very successful morning tea to celebrate International Women’s Day on Thursday March 8, 2007. Students made posters and ribbons with the traditional suffrage colours of purple, white and green and organised the morning. Women staff and students attended to get information on IWD and joined in a cuppa and a scone.

Women from New England Institute have posted their events on another blog - check out their great photos!

What did you do for IWD?

The Cycles of History

A few months ago I was chatting to Barbara Bee, she was recalling the events of days gone by at Granville. I asked Barbara is she would write it down as not all of us knew this history. I am pleased to say Barbara has recorded her story for us. An extract follows:

Despite all this TAFE remains my educational home and it has and still does give me the greatest satisfaction in teaching and encouraging community initiatives.

I think too that Outreach is under-appreciated and under-valued because its philosophy is at odds with user-pays. It resists the commodification of a basic human right to adult education and argues it’s never too late to learn.

So, you may be asking at this point, where’s all this preamble leading to and what has it to do with the present reorganization of TAFE women’s programs in Outreach?

Thank you Barbara