[Greens-Media] Adult Learners Awards

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MEDIA RELEASE Kerrie Tucker ACT Greens for the Senate
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4 Sept 07

Adult Learners Awards


Kerrie Tucker, Greens Senate candidate for the ACT, attending the Adult
Learners Awards Dinner at the CIT restaurant tonight, has called for
greater recognition of the link between adult education and other social
policy goals.

"We need an national approach to adult and community education" Ms Tucker
said today.

"If elected to the Senate this year I will push for a Senate Inquiry to
examine the connections between broader social policy goals - health,
well-being, workforce participation and social capital - and the role ACE
plays in forwarding them within the community."

"I am happy to support Adult Learners Week 2007 as the Adult and Community
Education sector makes a vital contribution to community life."

"For a community to prosper environmentally, socially and economically,
there needs to be a wide range of adult and community education
opportunities that are of a high standard and that are affordable,
accessible and responsive to local cultural and community realities."

"Community providers are often the first point of contact for many people
who have not had positive or rewarding experiences of education in the
past
or who, for various reasons, have missed out altogether.  Non-threatening
and supportive adult and community learning experiences allow people to be
re-engaged in their education" Ms Tucker said



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Media contact Roland Manderson 041 224 1379

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ACT Greens 8-10 Hobart Place Canberra City ACT 2601
ph: 6247 6305 fax: 6247 6455
kerrie.tucker at greens.org.au
www.greens.org.au
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