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Grants for teachers of less than five years to BEA Brisbane July Conference

Mon, 15 Mar 2010 12:24:56 +1000

Business Educators Australia, in conjunction with affiliate organisations, is offering the opportunity for those teaching less than five years, to attend the BEA Conference in Brisbane on 15 to 17 July, 2010. Two grants are available and will cover flights and registration.

You need to be a member of a BEA affiliate (such as your school being a VCTA member, or you having your own Individual membership.) The application form contains further details. (You need to be logged in to access this form - call VCTA Membership if you do not know your username and password on 03 9417 3555.)

Applications close 26 March.

For further information on the BEA conference itself click here. To access the early bird registration fee you need to register prior to 30 June.

Business Educators Study Tour to China this year!

Wed, 03 Mar 2010 18:31:18 +1000

Developed specifically for business educators, this tour offers rich insight China's rise to economic superpower status.

Travelling through key economic zones, the tour will connect you to Australians doing business in China and to leading China business experts. This one is really worth checking out!

This excellent Business Educators Australasia (BEA) study tour, on 27 June to 8 July 2010, is specifically designed for business educators. The tour is managed by the Asia Education Foundation and more details, including the price, locations visited and a summary of the activities, are available here.

Compak: Issue 2 (Feb 22 ) now available online

Wed, 03 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +1000

Every VCTA member can access Compak. Just click on Access Compak on the right hand side of every VCTA web page - you can't miss it as it is bright orange!

This will take you directly to the second issue which is now available. You can select your subject of choice by clicking on the green subject tab bar. To download a Compak article you need to ensure you are logged in with your own user name and password.

In the subject sections there are activities in VCE Units 1 and 3, some course timelines and more. And in VELS there are ready-to-go activities related to work education, rights and responsibilities and financial literacy.

You can find articles from the first issue of Compak by clicking on Archive at the top. Please note: the Archive function, whilst active, is still under developemnt.

A big plus of the new VCTA website and the new online Compak is that Compak will be fully searchable by a variety of criteria and by keywords - making life easier for our members! The search function is a work in progress and being refined as we go.

Compak has eight issues per year, an increase of four from previous years. Issue sizes will vary with the third issue available on 12 April.

Our thanks go to all Compak contributors and our wonderful editors. For now, we hope you enjoy the second issue of our new Compak!

VCTA awarding members

Wed, 17 Feb 2010 15:35:08 +1000

Every year the VCTA Awards Committee meets to consider recommending to the VCTA Board of Directors individuals for Life Membership of the association. Candidates are nominated by VCTA members. Nominations are now open and close Friday 30 April 2010. Further details and the nomination form may be accessed here.

In addition VCTA has an award to recognise outstanding achievement in business education. This award – the VCTA Medal – is made on the recommendation of the VCTA Awards Committee. Nominations are open and close Friday 30 April 2010. Further details and the nomination form may be accessed here.

VCTA AGM and Nominations for Board of Directors 2010

Wed, 17 Feb 2010 15:29:23 +1000

The VCTA Annual General Meeting will be held on Thursday 27 May at 6.00pm. There are twelve Board positions with current financial individual members eligible to be a nominee, proposer or seconder.

VCTA has appointed Alex Robins, a VCTA Life Member, as the returning officer. Nominations close Friday 26 March at 4.00pm and must be received by the returning officer by this date and time.

Further details, including access to the AGM agenda and the Board of Directors nomination form are available here. Then simply scoll down to the bottom of the page.

The VCTA Board of Director duties, the VCTA Memorandum and Articles of Association and a list of current VCTA Board of Directors are available here.