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With the legislation now through both houses of parliament, The National Disability Insurance Scheme, or DisabilityCare, is law, and will quickly become a defining feature of Australia’s social policy landscape. Gillard’s Medicare-style tax levy, now locked in through the federal budget, will ensure a reliable flow of funds to the Scheme, and with the prospect of sustainable federal funding on the table, most states and territories have signed up for the national roll-out, and agreed to foot a share of the bill.

But with only weeks left before its launch, closer consideration of the detail of DisabilityCare, including how the organisations providing disability services, and their paid employees will cope, is well overdue.

For many years, demand for formal support services has been growing, and providers have struggled to properly resource their responses. De-institutionalisation since the 1980s has seen more people with severe or profound limitations living in the community, and in coming decades, the number of people aged under 65 with core activity limitations will continue to grow. In 2011, services funded under the National Disability Agreement were assisting one in 71 people, compared with one in 94 people in 2006.

In response, the number of workers who provide care and support for people with disabilities is also growing. Between 2012 and 2017, growth in the number of aged and disability carers is expected to be about 24%, even before the NDIS rolls out nationally, while the full rollout is expected to require the disability workforce to double. At the same time, the age structure of the paid care workforce means many workers will retire in the next decade.

In this context, it is no surprise that a large employer is pleading to meet the industry’s growth needs with temporary overseas workers. This avenue is already available for skilled positions such as nursing, special education, and social work, as well as some mid-skill welfare occupations. The use of temporary visas to ensure sufficient supply of lower skill personal carers seems a short-sighted and ill-suited response to real problems of long-term under-investment in the sectors greatest asset: its frontline workforce.

First, the “457 solution” is poorly aligned with the NDIS' vision of promoting the capacity of consumers to choose their own support staff, and in some cases to employ them directly, because 457 visaholders can only be employed by organisations, not by individuals.

Second, a temporary workforce is less than ideal for people with disabilities and their families. Support is labour intensive, and the personal element of the work means the security and consistency of sustained relationships is the key to quality, as these give the foundation for fostering capabilities, wellbeing and participation of people with disability, and promoting NDIS goals of choice and empowerment.

Third, the nature of disability support work means temporary migrants may be exposed to levels of exploitation over and above that already experienced by the domestic workforce. While staff working in the homes of people with disabilities are vulnerable to isolation, a lack of collegial support and poor union representation, those on 457 visas will face additional barriers in raising concerns over pay, conditions and health and safety, because their visa and residency (as well as employment) depends on employers. The limited capacity of the Department of Immigration and Citizenship to monitor employers’ compliance is well known.

Addressing workforce shortages with a temporary overseas workforce would leave intact the underlying structural workforce problems, and risk exacerbating the vulnerability to low pay, insecurity, and under-skilling of this female dominated workforce.

In 2010, more than a third of non-professional disability workers in the non-government sector were casual, and more than half of employers reported their non-professional employees were under-skilled.

Upskilling is far from straightforward, as under the NDIS, it is unlikely that qualifications will be mandatory. FAHCSIA’s portfolio budget statements indicate a commitment to exploring the Scheme’s workforce implications, with DisabilityCare Australia charged with developing a Workforce Plan. However, it remains unclear whether and how the training required will be paid for or delivered, and whether the cash payments allocated to consumers to direct to their preferred mix of supports will be sufficient to pay decent wages and to backfill while support workers up-skill. Our co-authored research underlines how individual funding models can result in financial uncertainty for organisations, and can raise challenges for planning a co-ordinated industry agenda to address recruitment and training needs.

Structural problems of low pay, low status, poor working conditions, and poor access to opportunities for skill development act as disincentives for workers to remain in the disability industry. A strategic, national and collaborative approach to addressing these will be necessary if the high expectations of the NDIS are to be met.

As demonstrated in recent postings on the federal government’s “Your Say” forum for the NDIS, service users and their families take these problems seriously, frequently pointing to problems of unreliable, inconsistent support, and high turnover.

From July 1, experiences in the NDIS launch sites will be closely scrutinised. As others have pointed out, there will inevitably be glitches with an initiative of this scale, and with this level of ambition.

If the NDIS is to deliver on its promise of sector expansion and choice for consumers, problems of workforce shortages, and associated issues of low pay, insecurity, low status, and under-investment in skill development, must be properly addressed. We need look only as far as the recent deals between the federal government, employers and unions in early childhood and aged care to see the value of a more co-ordinated, long-term approach.

Natasha Cortis has conducted commissioned research on issues in community services, and the community services workforce, for State and Federal Governments, and non-government organisations. However, this piece has not been funded by any agency.

Sharni has conducted commissioned research on issues in community services, and the community services workforce, for State and Federal Governments, and non-government organisations. However, this piece has not been funded by any agency.

This article was originally published at The Conversation. Read the original article.

The 2013 QS World University Ranking for Education have just been released, and are available in full from the QS website. This was the second year Education as a discipline has been ranked, using data derived from large-scale academic (70,000) and employer reputation surveys, and Scopus data relating to citations per faculty staff member. These were combined to produce the subject results. The evaluation included more than 2,000 universities around the world, and over 700 institutions were ranked. UNSW jumped from 30th to 19th in the very competitive ranking of the best universities in the world to study education. A particularly pleasing result was that we achieved the highest employer approval rating of any Australian institution of education, with a score of 95.6, the sixth highest score in the world, just behind University of Hong Kong (95.8), Harvard (97.4), Oxford (98.6) and Cambridge (100). We also scored well on academic reputation, although not surprisingly, given the very young average age of our staff, relatively lower on citations and H-Index. This is an amazing result for such a small School and bodes well for our future development. Congratulations to all !

University of New South Wales (UNSW) seminar – Friday 4 October 2013

“40 años no es nada: Historia y memoria de los golpes de Estado de Uruguay y Chile en 1973”

“40 years is nothing: History and memory of the 1973 military coups in Uruguay and Chile”

The 27 June and 11 September 1973 military coups in Uruguay and Chile changed the balance of power in the Inter-American theatre of the Cold War, putting an end to the experiments of armed as well as democratic transitions to socialist regimes in Latin America. These coups started a new experiment in neoliberal governance backed up by authoritarian regimes that have since been adopted by many countries in other parts of the world, including the negotiated transitions back to democratic government in Latin America.

Academics, early career researchers and students are invited to send abstracts to participate in a one full day seminar dedicated to discuss the historical legacy left by these regimes with respect to issues of transitional justice, social and economic equality, quality of democracy, neoliberal governmentality, resistance, historiography, and culture studies.

We welcome papers in English or Spanish from all areas of the humanities, social sciences and the arts. Those interested in presenting at this seminar must submit an abstract (200-300 words) of the paper to seminar40years@gmail.com, which gives a short and clear statement of the thesis or argument of the paper by Monday 22 July 2013. Selection of papers will be communicated on Monday 19 August 2013. Selected presentations must not exceed 20minutes. Papers must be sent by Friday 20 September 2013 so as to give all participants the opportunity to read in advance and discuss the arguments.

As we are interested in creating links with international participants, we also welcome virtual presentations where the paper can be read by a third person or presented through a PowerPoint with voice-over or a pre-recorded video. For this virtual alternative the only requisite is for the presenter to be available through video conference for questions and answers at the time set in the programme of the seminar.

Submissions should address any of the following themes

• Latin American armed forces (in the last 40 years)

• State terrorism

• Chilean and Uruguayan non-state actors in the Inter-American Cold War

• Human Rights and transnational networks of solidarity

• Memoria Reciente (Recent Memory)

• State and institutional conflicts

• Neoliberal economic policies in Uruguay and Chile

• Negotiated transitions to democracy

• Armed and peaceful resistance

• Inxile/exile during the dictatorships

• Human Rights violations, crimes against humanity, and transitional justice

• Culture, media and arts as resistance or support under dictatorial rule

Attending this seminar is FREE to all participants. Public and students are invited to attend and participate in the discussion.

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On 5 November 2012, the Global Irish Studies Centre held a reception for donors past and present, including those who were instrumental in building the Chair in Modern Irish Studies over a long campaign. 

We were delighted to welcome the Chancellor of UNSW, Mr David Gonski AC, who delivered his personal thanks to the guests and dignitaries, including Mrs Mary Lee, Chairperson of the Endowment Committee for the Chair in Modern Irish Studies, The Honourable Judge John O'Meally AM RFD, President of the John Hubert Plunkett Society, and Dr Richard O'Brien, former Ambassador of Ireland to Australia. In his message of thanks to attendees, Australian Ireland Fund Chair Professor Rónán McDonald outlined the achievements of past years and outlined a vision for the future that reflects a vibrant, open and comparative approach to Irish Studies at UNSW. The Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Professor James Donald reaffirmed the centrality of local community support to the continued success of Irish Studies at UNSW.

We thank the organisers, serving staff, musicians and all other assistance for contributing to a most enjoyable evening. Attendees repaired to the Patrick O'Farrell Memorial Lecture delivered by Professor Cormac Ó Gráda, which followed the reception.

Funded by the Irish Government's Emigrant Support Programme, 'Irish Anzacs' is a major new research project for the Global Irish Studies Centre. The project is being led by Dr Jeff Kildea (picture right) author of the book Anzacs and Ireland. We're pleased to welcome on board a new research assistant Jo Kildea, who is working to construct a database of Irish-born members of the Australian Imperial Force. Jo graduated from UNSW in 2006 with First Class Honours in Austraian History. Since completing her BA, Jo has worked as a research assistant at the Shrine of Remembrance in Melbourne and for author Thomas Keneally. The Irish Anzacs project is one of great personal and academic interest for Jo, who has Irish ancestry and wrote her honours thesis on the plight of Australian prisoners of war during World War I.

Global Irish Studies Centre scholars continue to raise the profile of Irish Studies in Australia and around the world through the dissemination of research via publications, conferences and symposia.

Since our last e-newsletter Centre Director Professor Rónán McDonald has, as invited speaker, delivered keynote lectures at two prestigious conferences:

At the English Language and Literature Association of Korea Global Conference 2012 he spoke on "Home and Away: Form and Affect in Irish Emigrant Letters from Australia'.

Rónán gave a keynote entitled 'Rigour or Vigour? Disciplinarity in Irish Studies', which mapped some of the challenges of Irish Studies internationally.

The centre was well represented at this key international conference. Adjunct Fellow Dr Pamela O'Neill, Adjunct Lecturers Dr Jeff Kildea and Dr Perry McIntyre, Postdoctoral Research Fellow Dr Gemma Clark, and PhD candidate Ms Miri Jassy all gave papers in New Zealand. Read abstracts of their talks here.

In a trip to Western Australia, Professor Rónán McDonald was honoured by the city on Bunbury as an invited speaker at the commemoration for John Boyle O'Reilly, the Fenian escapee, poet, journalist and humnitarian with strong links to Western Australia.

In speeches at the dinner and civic recption in Bunbury and the official commemoration at the O'Reilly Memorial in Australind, Rónán recalled the inspirational life and writings of O'Reilly, a great 'global' Irishman who following his hair-raising escape from captivity in Western Australia became an inspirational community leader in Boston.

Adjunct Lecturer Dr Jeff Kildea spoke on "'A veritable hurricane of sectarianism": the year 1920 and ethno-religious conflict in Australia' at the 'Religion and Greater Ireland' symposium at the University of Newcastle, NSW 3-4 December 2012. Dr Kildea has also contributed articles to the Dictionary of Sydney and launched a website for his publications and Irish-Australia blog.

The Conference will be hosted by the Centre here at UNSW Sydney. See 'The Ends of Ireland' conference website for details. In further ISAANZ news, Professor McDonald has been appointed to the Presidency of ISAANZ from 2013. As the 2013 conference co-convenor Dr Gemma Clark has also been appointed to the ISAANZ Committee.

Adjunct Lecturer, Dr Perry McIntyre is working hard with the Great Irish Famine Commemoration Committee to organize events surrounding the International Commemoration of the Irish Famine in Sydney 23-25 August 2013.

OPINION: Social media has profoundly changed the ways in which police are now able to communicate – unmediated – with the public.

Facebook, Twitter and other social media platforms have become essential communications tools for police, and the events surrounding last month’s Boston Marathon bombing indicate just how far police have come in engaging proactively with social media to achieve operational (and non-operational) outcomes.

With pressure on police to increase public confidence and reduce community concerns over crime, social media has emerged as a valuable tool for improving communication between organisations and their “customers” – the public.

And as we witnessed in Boston, social media is now the site for breaking news.

But increasingly it is the police, not the media, who are providing real-time crime news to an ever-interested audience.

In the aftermath of the bombings, and the ensuing pursuit of the alleged attackers, social media played a critical role.

For example, social media served as a channel for disseminating police information about the bombings, and facilitated “citizen policing” during the hunt for the prime suspects in the attack – with sometimes negative results, such as the wrongful identification of one missing student as a suspect.

But while the Boston case has brought attention to the nexus between police and social media, the intersection of social media and police work is not an entirely new phenomenon.

Over the last five years, police organisations around the world have been developing skills in using social media as investigative and public relations tools.

What my own research into this phenomenon has shown is that police are more than happy to take a lead role in defining crime events for the public, bypassing the traditional media platforms that have filtered much of the public communications work of law enforcement.

Dr Alyce McGovern is a Senior Lecturer in Criminology at UNSW.

Read the full opinion piece on The Crime Report.

OPINION: While the age of consent to sexual activity is 16 in NSW, naked or semi-naked pictures of those under the age of 18 can be defined legally as child pornography, even when those who produce the images are also under the age of 18. Legal cases in Australia and overseas have highlighted the risks to young people who may face registration as sex offenders for participating in sexting.

The Young People and Sexting in Australia study sought young people's opinions of the legal and educational responses to sexting. The first thing we learnt was that many young people considered the word sexting to be an adult term, and they didn't see all naked or semi-naked images as sexual.

Young people said they took and shared pictures for different reasons. Some pictures were intended as private self-portraits. Some were jokes. Some were part of friendships or flirtations. They felt adults tended to overreact to many images. One young man said: "Teenagers joke around a lot; but the moment you mention anything sexual [adults will] probably jump on it straight away and say sexting."

Very few had discussed sexting in class. Most agreed education should emphasise harm reduction, rather than prohibition. One young woman said: "You're never going to be able to completely police it and I think people need to accept that, and they just need to work more on prevention and protection."

One group of young women felt existing educational material represented sexting as primarily a problem for girls. Young men and women agreed that this material overplayed the shameful or embarrassing aspects of sexting, but underplayed young men's ethical and legal responsibilities.

All wanted more access to factual information about their rights in cases where images were taken or shared without consent, and their legal and ethical responsibilities as they applied to naked or semi-naked pictures.

They questioned why laws designed to prevent child abuse could be applied to consenting activity between young people.

Dr Kath Albury is a Senior Lecturer in UNSW's Journalism and Media Research Centre, and the co-author of Young People and Sexting in Australia: Ethics, representation and the law.

This opinion piece first appeared in The Sydney Morning Herald.

Arts & Social Sciences is proud to announce the introduction of the annual Dean’s Research Awards.

The awards will serve to recognise and reward excellent research performance by academics in the faculty.

The Arts & Social Sciences Research Committee have received, assessed and shortlisted nominations across six categories on behalf of the Dean, who will make a final determination on the award winners.

The successful recipients will be announced at a special event at Walsh Bay on Thursday 23 May, a date chosen to coincide with the Sydney Writers’ Festival.

The categories for the Dean’s Research Awards are wide ranging, recognising achievements such as social impact, scholarly impact and research leadership.

Congratulations to everyone shortlisted for this year’s awards. We look forward to announcing our winners shortly.

UNSW alumnus Damien Miller will become Australia’s first indigenous head of an overseas mission when he takes up his posting as Ambassador to Denmark this month.

Miller graduated from UNSW with a Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Laws in 1998. He also holds a Graduate Diploma in Foreign Affairs and Trade from Monash University.

Announcing the posting, Foreign Minister Bob Carr said Miller -- a career officer with the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) -- would also serve as non-resident Ambassador to Norway and Iceland.

He was recently Deputy Ambassador to Germany and has previously served in the Australian High Commission in Malaysia.

Miller told SBS radio that being the first Indigenous head of mission was a significant personal achievement.

“It is a real privilege and honour to be the first Indigenous ambassador,” he said. “There have been Indigenous people working in the Department (of Foreign Affairs and Trade) for many years … there are 49 and 12 working overseas. To be the first (Ambassador) is a great honour not only for me, but for my family and for Indigenous Australians."

Born in Brisbane, Miller’s family is from the Gangalu people from the Rockhampton region in central Queensland. In 1993 he was selected Aboriginal Scholar of the Year by the National NAIDOC Committee and while at UNSW received the Michael Harmer and Associates prize for first place in industrial law.

He entered DFAT in 1999 as a graduate straight from UNSW.

The number of Indigenous people progressing through DFAT marked a wider trend in society, Miller said.

“It’s a long process over many years where you see more Indigenous people turning up in all different areas whether it be government, the first Indigenous ballerina in the national ballet, or Indigenous sports people excelling in all manner of sports internationally.

“It is a mark of the progress being made.”

Listen to the full SBS Podcast.

Watch Mr Miller’s interview on ABC TV here.

Read Bob Carr’s media statement here.

Media contact: Steve Offner, UNSW Media Office, (02) 9385 1583

UNSW writers and artists will bring their talents to two of Sydney’s most dynamic events – the Sydney Writers’ Festival and the Sydney Film Festival.

Professor Stephen Muecke from the School of Arts and Media (SAM) will host the panel, Love and Extinction, a discussion on how writers explore environmental issues. The panel features UNSW visiting professorial fellow, Deborah Bird Rose.

SAM lecturer and author Dr Stephanie Bishop will host the panel, Water: New Writing a session of readings by authors Anita Desai, Dermot Healy and Amanda Lohrey.

UNSWriting will also host a Festival event at the Io Myers studio showcasing international poetry slam champion and performer, Anis Mojgani.

The Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) has been a major partner of the Sydney Writers’ Festival for the past two years. UNSW was the first university to partner with the literary event in 2010.

FASS Dean, Professor James Donald, said the partnership with the literary festival is continuing to be “very fruitful.”

“The two events hosted by FASS academics reflect our developing engagement with the fast-growing discipline of Environmental Humanities,” he said. “The Festival also offers the perfect location for the announcement of the FASS Dean’s Research Awards.”

The Sydney Film Festival will also showcase UNSW talent, with world renowned photographer and UNSW Visiting Fellow, William Yang, premiering his first film William Yang: My Generation at the Festival in partnership with ABC TV Arts.

My Generation, directed by Martin Fox, is one of seven existing performances that Yang has re-performed and digitised during his fellowship at UNSW. It captures Sydney's emerging artistic, literary, and queer scene through Yang's candid photography from the 70s and 80s coupled with his honest and humorous narration.

William Yang: In Conversation at the Museum of Contemporary Art, hosted by Vivid LIVE, will also screen at 10:30pm on Sunday 16 June on ABC1's Sunday Arts Up Late.

After over a decade of lobbying and at least three years of protracted negotiations, an overwhelming majority of the United Nations General Assembly voted to adopt the Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) in late March.

The treaty prohibits the transfer of conventional arms where the state knows that the weapons will be used to commit international crimes, including genocide, crimes against humanity and attacks on civilians.

During the negotiations over the final text of the ATT, Australian foreign minister Bob Carr reiterated Australia’s humanitarian concerns and its intention to advance the agenda of civilian protection. In that same statement, Carr indicated the trade and use of light weapons, stating that it undermines the “security, stability and welfare of communities around the globe”.

Australia showed effective global leadership in advancing the protection of civilians through its extended diplomatic efforts to secure a robust treaty. If it is truly committed to this agenda, the government should make every effort to lead international efforts to limit the use of drone strikes when Australia takes the presidency of the United Nations Security Council in September.

Small arms and light weapons have acted as force multipliers in intra-state and inter-state conflict, amplifying violence and the threat to civilians. The United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs (UNODA) notes that:

Small arms facilitate a vast spectrum of human rights violations, including killing, maiming, rape and other forms of sexual violence, enforced disappearance, torture, and forced recruitment of children by armed groups.

The devastating effects of small arms on civilian populations are self-evident, and the ATT is a significant step towards diminishing their availability.

UNODA describes small arms and light weapons as facilitators of terrorism and notes that their use contributes to the creation of fear and insecurity. This is one of the reasons their trade should be closely regulated and that we should seek to eliminate their circulation. But small arms and light weapons are not the only forms of military hardware that induce terror and create fear.

The use of drones severely compromises human security and has a detrimental impact upon the psychological and physical wellbeing of civilian populations. The Bureau of Investigative Journalism has collated data on the casualties and fatalities incurred as a result of United States drone strikes. They estimate that over 1,000 civilians have died in the past decade in Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia as a result of drone strikes, including over 200 children.

On April 23, Farea Al-Muslimi, a young man from Wessab in Yemen, made a statement to the United States Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Human Rights. In this statement he explained the impact that drone warfare has had upon his life and the lives of his family, friends and neighbours.

Six days prior to his presentation, a missile released by a US drone hit Wessab, aimed at Hameed Al-Radmi, a man who was reportedly affiliated with al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP). The inhabitants of Wessab, in Al-Muslimi’s words, wanted: to question him and find out what he was doing wrong so they could put an end to it. They still don’t have an answer to that question. Instead, all they have is the psychological fear and terror that now occupies their souls.

Others have described how drones have hit rescuers, meaning that people are increasingly less likely to assist those wounded by the weapons for fear of multiple strikes, and those attending funerals.

The US government has never publicly outlined its doctrine on the use of drones, but a cache of leaked documents suggests that threat identification happens on an ad-hoc basis and often using sketchy intelligence at best. Over half of the targets in Pakistan during the periods covered by the leaked documents (2006-8 and 2010-11) were local militants unaffiliated with transnational organisations, who therefore posed little or no threat to the US.

The effects of these strikes on civilian populations are devastating. In his testimony, Al-Muslimi repeatedly referenced the terror experienced by his friends and neighbours. The widespread fear and insecurity is caused by the scale of the devastation left behind: after one strike, Al-Muslimi recounts that “the bodies were so decimated that it was impossible to differentiate between those of children, women and their animals”.

Australia could use its new global influence on the UN Security Council to protect civilian harm from drones. EPA/Andrew Gombert

On the Security Council, Australia has a platform from which to challenge the use of drones and to demand accountability for the destruction they cause. In the light of the government’s commitment to civilian protection – recently put to such good use in the ATT negotiations – it is imperative that the government use its position to speak out about drone usage in the same way that it spoke out against small arms. Both forms of weaponry have the same effects: they both cause human insecurity; they both spread fear; they both destroy the livelihoods of communities and take the lives of individuals.

Effective protection of civilians cannot be achieved solely by taking small arms out of the equation in localised conflicts. Civilian protection requires a firm commitment to human rights, including the right to live free from fear of arbitrary violence.

As long as drone strikes continue unchallenged, and as long as the destruction that they rain upon civilian populations is not held up to international scrutiny, a commitment to the protection of civilians will be a hollow commitment indeed.

The authors do not work for, consult to, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organisation that would benefit from this article. They also have no relevant affiliations.

This article was originally published at The Conversation. Read the original article.

Under a UN ratified agreement 50 years ago on May 1st, Indonesia was given interim administration of Western New Guinea, now the Indonesian province of Papua.

Full integration into Indonesia was completed in 1969 through the controversial "Act of Free Choice". But despite its rich natural resources, Papua remains the poorest and least developed of Indonesia's provinces. Now Jakarta is undertaking several measures to address this and the ongoing attempts at separatistism in Papua.

Dr Eben Kirksey, from the UNSW School of Humanities speaks to ABC Radio Australia correspondent Kanaha Sabapathy:

LISTEN TO THE INTERVIEW HERE

 Speakers: Yoab Syatsle, defacto foreign minister of the self proclaimed Federal Republic of West Papua; Jacob Rumbiak, Papuan Representative; Dr Eben Kirksey, University of New South Wales

Providing stable housing for people with mental illness has reduced NSW hospitalisation rates by more than 80% and saved $30 million, a report by UNSW's Social Policy Research Centre has shown. WATCH VIDEO

A significant number of young Australians can’t stand school and many people are ill suited to a university education. So is it wise to insist that everyone complete year 12? Should we be encouraging even more young people to get an uni degree? Do we need a complete overhaul of vocational education and apprenticeships? Paul Barclay questions an expert panel including UNSW Social Policy Research Centre's Associate Professor Kristy Muir about what the ingredients are to a successful transition to work and adulthood for Australian youth. Recorded at the National Centre for Vocational Education Research forum.

 LISTEN NOW at ABC Big Ideas Program

This course provides an opportunity for you to learn the theoretical and practical aspects of preserving and organizing archives and historical documents, whether they be family papers and manuscripts or the archives of public or private corporations, organizations, associations and societies. The course curriculum has relevance to custodians of archives and historical manuscripts of public as well as private organizations, and is of particular relevance to local studies librarians, museum and historical society curators whose custodial responsibilities also include local government archives and private or personal papers.

The knowledge and skills imparted in this course have application for the management of archives and manuscripts in a wide variety of institutions and organizations, such as schools and colleges, churches and religious congregations, professional associations and learned societies, industrial organizations, pastoral and agricultural societies, business corporations, and local government authorities.

Course Brochure and Application

Course Program

Stage 1: Principles and Techniques Monday 17 June to Friday 21 June, 2013 School of Humanities, UNSW

Stage 2: Field Practicum Monday 24 June to Friday 28 June, 2013 Sancta Sophia College, University of Sydney