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Learn the Language, Live the Culture! Endeavour Language Teacher Fellowships 2014
Practising, retraining and pre-service language teachers can soon apply for the 2014 Endeavour Language Teacher Fellowships (ELTF), a three-week in-country study program funded by the Australian Government’s Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations. |
Austraining to celebrate and share its Indonesian ties at INDOfest
Austraining is proud to be sponsoring INDOfest, an annual South Australian festival to celebrate all things Indonesian, for the fourth consecutive year. |
Human rights on the agenda for Australia's youth at AYAD Forum
A gender campaigner, refugee advocate, education specialist and appearance activist will showcase how youth can advocate for human rights at the free Australian Youth Ambassadors for Development (AYAD) Forum 2013 in Melbourne on April 9. |
Austraining response to Asian Century White Paper
Austraining International welcomes the release of ‘Australia in the Asian Century’ White Paper and the Australian Government’s commitment to strengthening ties across Asia. |
Gender diversity in non-traditional roles
Austraining’s Alison White presents on the importance of gender diversity in non-traditional roles at Women in Project Management event. |
Volunteer Stories touring Australia
Austraining International is a hosting a series of returned volunteer speaking events across Australia as part of its role as a Core Partner of the Australian Volunteers for International Development program. |
A new office in Kiribati
Austraining International has opened a new office in Kiribati in order to strengthen and better support its growing work portfolio in the small Pacific nation. |
Austraining International opens Regional Asia Office
Austraining International this week officially opens its Regional Asia office in Vietnam, strengthening its footprint in South East Asia. |
Event organiser experiences cultural exchange with Viet Nam festival
To understand how other countries execute their art festivals, Adelaide event organiser Kate Donnelly travelled to Viet Nam with the Endeavour Executive Awards. |
Austraining International staffer named UN Youth Representative for Australia
Austraining International Online Marketing Coordinator Dan Ryan has been named the 2012 United Nations Youth Representative for Australia, the highest profile advocacy role for a young person in the country. |
Learn the Language, Live the Culture - Endeavour Language Teacher Fellowships
Applications are now open for practising and trainee (pre-service) language teachers to undertake an overseas study tour to boost their language skills and cultural knowledge through the Endeavour Language Teacher Fellowships. |
International Volunteers Day
Read about how Austraining International celebrated the work of our volunteers both locally and in the more than 20 countries to which we send skilled Australians to contribute to sustainable development. |
PNG academic researching creative ways to foster discussion of HIV/AIDS
To mark International Women's Day 2012, Austraining International spoke with PNG academic Jane Pumai Awi, a PhD candidate and Prime Minister's Pacific Australia (PMPA) Awardee. Click below to read her story. |
Australian language teachers to depart on overseas study tours
Congratulations to the 2012 Endeavour Language Teacher Fellowship (ELTF) Awardees who will commence their three week total immersion study and cultural program in one of ten countries in January. To read more about the 2012 Awardees and the ELTF program, click below. |
Addressing poverty in the Philippines through textile design and development
Reviving the Philippines' textile industry by encouraging the production of local fabrics is a bold plan to tackle poverty by an Endeavour Award Holder studying in Melbourne. Click below to read Mary Joanne Lesaca's story. |
High achieving Pacific scholars ready to embark on Australian work placements
Thirty Pacific scholars who are the recipients of a prestigious Federal Government scholarship were honoured at an awards ceremony in Canberra earlier this month. To read more about the Prime Minister's Pacifc- Australia Award recipients, click below. |
Jade Cooper, Prime Minister’s Australia- Asia Award
The Prime Minister’s Australia Asia Awards provide an exclusive opportunity for developing future leaders to contribute to establishing education and professional linkages between Australia and its Asian neighbours. |
Austraining International and Australian Business Volunteers in partnership to deliver business volunteers
Austraining International and Australian Business Volunteers (ABV) are proud to announce their partnership in delivering the business component of the Australian Volunteers for International Development program. |
International Literacy Day: Establishing libraries in East Timor
Australian Volunteers Daniel and Beth Gilfillan are supporting a public library initiative in central East Timor which is helping boost the reading and writing skills of people in the local community. |
Endeavour Award Holder receives grant to continue breakthrough research at home university
Endeavour Awardee Dr Sanjay Chavan and fellow researchers have been awarded a grant from the Australia-India Strategic Research Fund for a project which will strengthen the links between the scientific communities of the two countries. |
Refugee Week – Canberra youth volunteer reaches out to refugees
Australian Youth Ambassador Amie Hope will soon be using her experience supporting recent arrivals in Canberra to better prepare Burmese refugees for a new life in Australia. Amie is readying for a nine month volunteer placement with the International Organization for Migration – Regional Office in Bangkok where she will work to enhance a cultural orientation course available to all refugee and special humanitarian entrants prior to their departure for Australia. |
World Environment Day – one volunteer’s passion for orang-utan conservation
As the global community readies for World Environment Day, one Australian is preparing to relocate to a remote Indonesian animal sanctuary to work with endangered Sumatran orang-utans. Annaleis Martin will start a two year volunteer assignment as an orang-utan welfare and training specialist with the Sumatran Orangutan Conservation Project in Jambi, South-East Sumatra, on Sunday, June 5. |
Kevin Rudd addresses Australia Award holders in Brisbane
Keven, meet Kevin: Endeavour Awardee Keven Lee met Foreign Affairs Minister Kevin Rudd at the Australia Awards event. |
Austraining International named core partner of Australian Government’s new overseas volunteer program
Austraining International is proud to be named a core partner of the Australian Government’s Australian Volunteers for International Development Program. The new Program draws all Australian Government overseas volunteering initiatives together under a single banner, and was launched by Foreign Affairs Minister Kevin Rudd at Parliament House, Canberra, last week. The Australian Government, through AusAID, is partnering with Austraining to continue to provide a range of rewarding international development opportunities for Australians aged over 18. |
Australian Volunteers take the stage at world conference on drowning prevention
Four Australians volunteering in South East Asia will help highlight the epidemic of drowning deaths in developing countries at an international conference being co-sponsored by Australia in Vietnam this week.
Child drowning is estimated to claim more than 350,000 lives each year in Asia, or 1000 a day. In Bangladesh, drowning kills more people aged 18 years and under than infectious diseases. |
National Volunteer Week
Optus employee Jann Kohlman, Group Manager Sponsorship and Community Programs, used her 25 years experience in the marketing and communications industry to help boost the profile of international aid organisation CARE. |
KOTO Founder Jimmy Pham Honoured
Austraining International congratulates Founder of Know One Teach One (KOTO), Jimmy Pham, who has been recognised by the World Economic Forum (WEF) as a Young Global Leader. KOTO, a not-for-profit restaurant and vocational training program, has lifted over 300 Vietnamese youth out of poverty by offering them training and employment. |
Laying foundations of hope in Bangladesh: Australian Youth Ambassadors for Development Build for underprivileged families
Austraining commends the work of AYAD volunteer Lydia Lao who raised $5000 and worked helping to build two new homes for two underprivileged local families. Working alongside the recipient families, the occasion was filled with much lifting, laying, mixing and building. |
Minister for Tertiary Education, Senator Chris Evans
Minister for Tertiary Education, Senator Chris Evans presented three Prime Minister’s Australia Asia Awards and 19 Endeavour Awards to recipients at a reception in Beijing hosted by the Australia China Alumni Association. |
PM Julia Gillard meets Awardees at Parliament House
Awardees of the Prime Minister’s Australia Asia Awards and Prime Minister’s Pacific Australia Awards met with Prime Minister Julia Gillard at Parliament House on Tuesday 23 November 2010. The Awardees enjoyed a busy day networking before being presented with their Awards that evening by Minister for Tertiary Education, Chris Evans. |
International Volunteer Day
International Volunteer Day on December 5th provides the nation with an opportunity to recognise the contribution of Australian volunteers and their impact on communities locally, nationally and internationally.
Our media release outlines examples of Australian volunteers and partner organisation’s commitment in developing countries contributing to Australia’s priority to strengthen sustainable development and poverty reduction. |
Volunteers in Aid Conference
Prospective volunteers interested in learning more about volunteering in the aid and humanitarian sector are invited to register for the upcoming Volunteers in Aid conference to be held in Melbourne on Friday 3 December 2010.
Austraining International, who manage the VIDA Program on behalf of AusAID, are a sponsor of the event, and are committed to making people aware of the impact they can have as a volunteer.
The conference is for prospective volunteers of all ages and backgrounds, from school and tertiary students to professionals and retirees.
We will be there and hope you will join us. |
Media Release from The Hon Stephen Smith MP (30 June 2010)
In 2010, for the first time, the Youth Ambassador program was extended to Africa, where Australia has considerably enhanced its foreign policy engagement and development assistance presence. |
Learnt the language? Endeavour Language Teacher Fellowships
Austraining International has recently been appointed as the new manager of the Endeavour Language Teacher Fellowships program on behalf of the Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations.
The Endeavour Language Teacher Fellowships, a part of the Australian Government’s broader Endeavour Awards, provide opportunities for both practising languages teachers in Australian schools and trainee (pre-service) languages teachers in Australian universities to improve their language and cultural skills through intensive short-term study programs. The study programs take place over a three-week period in January each year. Programs may be held in Asia, Europe, Latin America or the Middle East. |
Austraining International Supports 1Goal
Education for All campaign is the FIFA supported campaign for this year’s World Cup. 1Goal is using the publicity of the World Cup to get as many people to sign an online petition that will be presented to world leaders in time for the UN General Assembly meeting in September. Austraining is supporting the goal to raise awareness of the lack of access to basic education for 72 million children around the word and put pressure on world leaders to act. |
Bringing Cutting-Edge Skills to Philippines Public Schools
Imagine teaching a computer class with fifty-five (55) students sharing about ten almost obsolete computers. While to others this herculean task might sound impossible, this is a usual daily routine for Anwar, a high school teacher in a public school nestled in a disadvantaged community in southern Philippines. |
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