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Boost in
English
teaching
More English-language programs
would be provided at technical and
further-education institutions, the Min- ■
ister for Education, Senator Baume,"
said yesterday.
The programs would aim to increase
English proficiency to a level where
migrants could enter courses in TAFE
or other post-secondary education in*
stitutions and to help migrants who
might already have skills to develop an
adequate command of English for occupational
purposes and recognition of
their overseas qualifications.
The TAFE Council of the Commonwealth
Tertiary Education Commission
would invite each State and
Territory TAFE authority to submit
programs detailing their requirements,'
under the scheme.
In 1983 the program would cost$3.27
million, including $1.2 million
transferred to the Commonwealth.
Tertiary Education Commission frgm„
the Adult Migrant Education Program
of the Department of Immigration and "
Ethnic Affairs.
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