AquaEd 2010

[Louise Ward]

Hi All Aquaculture Educators and Trainers

We're discussing plans for AquaEd activities in conjunction with the Australasian Aquaculture Conference in 2010, and would like to know if you would prefer a combined education session within the main conference, or a separate AquaEd workshop. As I understand at this time all options are on the table for discussion, and we look forward to some feedback to design the most productive forum for those attending.

Happy to take comments online on Ning, or you can email me directly at [e-mail] or phone [phone].

We realise many people will be involved in the final format, just keen to get discussions rolling...

Many thanks

Louise Ward

National Centre for Marine Conservation and Resource Sustainability (NCMCRS)
Australian Maritime College
University of Tasmania

[Lisa Terry]

Hi Louise,

I like the idea of a seperate AquaEd before the main conference where we educators can get together. I go to the Australasia Aqua conference primarily to hear the latest updates on aquaculture research and industry developments and would prefer to go to those sessions. I think it works well on the Sat/Sun before the conference starts. I also think it's good having it hosted at an educational facilty and doesn't have to be too fancy.

Regards

Lisa Terry

[Stuart Whitney]

Hi Louise,

Would like a separate AquaEd 10 workshop focusing on the process of training, relevance, students numbers, and the SFITP review building on Aquaed 08. Then follow on with stronger ties to the education session within the main conference focusing on industry needs, application and dissemination of new technology

[Stuart Whitney]

Hi Louise,

Follow our phone call, I do feel that your 2 suggested sessions;
1. Articulation between TAFE and UNI – with specialist speakers, case study models
2. Integration of TAFE and UNI – with specialist speakers for your UTAS curriculum units and maybe Swinburne , case study models

Are right on the money and would be valuable session for AquaEd 2010 I also would like to see
3. Integration of High schools and TAFE – QLD SPL (Senior Phase Learning) specialist, SA examples and other examples

I’ll ask the broader AquaEd ning community to may be suggest specialist or speakers to present best practice models and case example
Cheers
Stuart witney

[Louise Ward]

Hi All

Just to follow Stuart's posting, in addition some other related issues that may be of interest as sessions for discussion/workshop sessions could include:
- wider recruitment strategies and articulation from high schools then between TAFE and Unis
- negotiating potential difficulties with co-taught programs (e.g. different reporting mechanisms between TAFE/uni systems)
- aligning pedagogical approaches for articulated courses
- changes to Agriskills
- updates on restructure of the seafood package

These are just some ideas, and i'd be keen to hear if these are of wider interest for discussion, or alternatively if other Ning users have other suggestions or burning issues for the AquaEd workshops, please add to the discussion.

Cheers
Louise

Stuart Whitney said:

Hi Louise,

Follow our phone call, I do feel that your 2 suggested sessions;
1. Articulation between TAFE and UNI – with specialist speakers, case study models
2. Integration of TAFE and UNI – with specialist speakers for your UTAS curriculum units and maybe Swinburne , case study models

Are right on the money and would be valuable session for AquaEd 2010 I also would like to see
3. Integration of High schools and TAFE – QLD SPL (Senior Phase Learning) specialist, SA examples and other examples

I’ll ask the broader AquaEd ning community to may be suggest specialist or speakers to present best practice models and case example
Cheers
Stuart witney

[Justin Fromm]

Hi All

I hope the key AquaEd people read this.

As I hope most of you are aware I am the CEO of the National Aquaculture Council taking over from Simon Bennison at the start of this year.

I am, along with Roy Palmer on the Executive Committee of the Australasian Aquaculture Conference. I am co-chair along with Dan Machin on the Program Committee. I also run the administrative side of the conference.

I’d obviously like to talk about AquaED and how it links into AA10. I have spoken to a few of you about how we link AquaEd with AA10.

However, there doesn’t seem to be much going on from the AquaEd side of things. With 6 months to go until the conference, things are getting tight for the EC and we need some sort of action from AquaEd on what you all want to do.

I have read all your comments and they reflect what people have told me on the phone. My preference is for a stand-alone AquaEd conference on the front end of the conference. I also take peoples view that they do not want to feel obligated to go to a training/education session at AA10 just because that is their field. That is why at this stage there is no stand alone Training and Education. Unfortunately, our industry is yet to value training enough to warrant a session. I do like Kerry’s views that TEd presentations should be put into the specific sector sessions. However, some of the sectors have opted not have species specific sessions, because of the same reasons above. I encourage you all submit a abstract regardless.

The conference has made the following offer to a few AquaEd people, but it is either unacceptable or it hasn’t been on-forwarded. So here it is. To be blunt this really is the ‘last boarding call’ from the conference’s point of view as EC needs to finalise promotion material. It would be good to include AquaEd on that.

The Conference has offered to handle all AquaEd budgeting/ logistics/ registrations/ accommodation etc. for a fee that would be cost recovered through your ticket price. We would also offer the early bird conference registration rate to all attendees of AquaEd, regardless of the timing of their booking.

The only thing AquaEd would need to do is handle the programming. To handle this I suggest a small steering/program committee. In addition the Conference will supply the secretariat to coordinate the committee, eg take minutes, actions, etc.

The conference also suggests the following itinerary:
• Friday 21 May – Arrive Launceston by am (maybe night before for some), Registration and welcome lunch. If people have arrived early, perhaps a UTas facility tour. Half day afternoon session at UTas Launceston Campus then dinner with keynote presentations
• Saturday 22 May – early start (7am?) ½ day program at UTas Launceston Campus, travel to east coast in afternoon, site visit, further travel and overnight. Dinner presentations from local industry and further keynotes?
• Sunday 23 May – Early start. Site visiting to Hobart then through to Tassal or Huon operations, arrive Hobart to check in and for Conference Welcome Drinks.

I have done a bit of a back of the envelop budget and think that this kind of program will cost around $400 per person based on 40 attendees (lunch, dinner, morning and afternoon teas and transport) but not including breakfast and accommodation. This relies upon Utas supplying rooms/AV as in-kind for thier part.

I am very happy to negotiate any of this and obviously the sooner the better. If AquaEd do not want to take up this offer, that is fine and the conference still supports the AquaEd conference fronting on to AA10. Please note that early bird discounts for the conference would not be available under this situation.

Do I have volunteers for the AquaEd 2010 Conference Steering/Program Committee???

Cheers

Justin
0411146396

[Roy Palmer]

Mark Oliver has offered to be involved in the AquaEd committee
Cheers Roy

Justin Fromm said:

Hi All

I hope the key AquaEd people read this.

As I hope most of you are aware I am the CEO of the National Aquaculture Council taking over from Simon Bennison at the start of this year.

I am, along with Roy Palmer on the Executive Committee of the Australasian Aquaculture Conference. I am co-chair along with Dan Machin on the Program Committee. I also run the administrative side of the conference.

I’d obviously like to talk about AquaED and how it links into AA10. I have spoken to a few of you about how we link AquaEd with AA10.

However, there doesn’t seem to be much going on from the AquaEd side of things. With 6 months to go until the conference, things are getting tight for the EC and we need some sort of action from AquaEd on what you all want to do.

I have read all your comments and they reflect what people have told me on the phone. My preference is for a stand-alone AquaEd conference on the front end of the conference. I also take peoples view that they do not want to feel obligated to go to a training/education session at AA10 just because that is their field. That is why at this stage there is no stand alone Training and Education. Unfortunately, our industry is yet to value training enough to warrant a session. I do like Kerry’s views that TEd presentations should be put into the specific sector sessions. However, some of the sectors have opted not have species specific sessions, because of the same reasons above. I encourage you all submit a abstract regardless.

The conference has made the following offer to a few AquaEd people, but it is either unacceptable or it hasn’t been on-forwarded. So here it is. To be blunt this really is the ‘last boarding call’ from the conference’s point of view as EC needs to finalise promotion material. It would be good to include AquaEd on that.

The Conference has offered to handle all AquaEd budgeting/ logistics/ registrations/ accommodation etc. for a fee that would be cost recovered through your ticket price. We would also offer the early bird conference registration rate to all attendees of AquaEd, regardless of the timing of their booking.

The only thing AquaEd would need to do is handle the programming. To handle this I suggest a small steering/program committee. In addition the Conference will supply the secretariat to coordinate the committee, eg take minutes, actions, etc.

The conference also suggests the following itinerary:
• Friday 21 May – Arrive Launceston by am (maybe night before for some), Registration and welcome lunch. If people have arrived early, perhaps a UTas facility tour. Half day afternoon session at UTas Launceston Campus then dinner with keynote presentations
• Saturday 22 May – early start (7am?) ½ day program at UTas Launceston Campus, travel to east coast in afternoon, site visit, further travel and overnight. Dinner presentations from local industry and further keynotes?
• Sunday 23 May – Early start. Site visiting to Hobart then through to Tassal or Huon operations, arrive Hobart to check in and for Conference Welcome Drinks.

I have done a bit of a back of the envelop budget and think that this kind of program will cost around $400 per person based on 40 attendees (lunch, dinner, morning and afternoon teas and transport) but not including breakfast and accommodation. This relies upon Utas supplying rooms/AV as in-kind for thier part.

I am very happy to negotiate any of this and obviously the sooner the better. If AquaEd do not want to take up this offer, that is fine and the conference still supports the AquaEd conference fronting on to AA10. Please note that early bird discounts for the conference would not be available under this situation.

Do I have volunteers for the AquaEd 2010 Conference Steering/Program Committee???

Cheers

Justin
0411146396

[Andrew Christie]

Yep I think that a separate AquaEd component before the main conference is the way to go; seems to have quite a bit of support out there for this, and the Australasian Aquaculture Conference is definitely a totally separate entity. Makes it easy for those that are wanting to attend both sets of proceedings as well. Am particularly interested in 2010 to see discussion based on student numbers and articulation arrangements between TAFEs and Unis, as we all seem to be experiencing limited student intakes at present.

Regards,

Andrew Christie
NMIT Aquaculture Program

[Roy Palmer]

I think with the SITP Review going on one of the key issues has been the drop off in RTO's and the networks - Aquaculture clearly shows the way here. It would be a good time to plan a strategy and highlight what is missing in resources, how we can share what we have, how we can attract more more people into training and other issues based on issues coming from the review. Articulation between TAFE's and Unis would clearly fit into this.


Andrew Christie said:

Yep I think that a separate AquaEd component before the main conference is the way to go; seems to have quite a bit of support out there for this, and the Australasian Aquaculture Conference is definitely a totally separate entity. Makes it easy for those that are wanting to attend both sets of proceedings as well. Am particularly interested in 2010 to see discussion based on student numbers and articulation arrangements between TAFEs and Unis, as we all seem to be experiencing limited student intakes at present.

Regards,

Andrew Christie
NMIT Aquaculture Program

[Peter Preece]

In reply to Justin and Roy,
I'll also volunteer to help with AquaEd 2010. In the past it's largely been host state based committees that have done the lot. An organising committee sans frontiers would be an interesting challenge.
Cheers
Peter Preece
TAFESA, Adelaide
Ph 08 8372 6818, 0427607378

[Roy Palmer]

Terrific Peter - much appreciated - I'll send you email that I sent to others as an idea
Cheers Roy

Peter Preece said:

In reply to Justin and Roy,
I'll also volunteer to help with AquaEd 2010. In the past it's largely been host state based committees that have done the lot. An organising committee sans frontiers would be an interesting challenge.
Cheers
Peter Preece
TAFESA, Adelaide
Ph 08 8372 6818, 0427607378

[Joe Coco]

Hi Louise,

Thanks for returning my call yesterday in regard to Aqua Ed. As discussed I will add some dot points I suggested.
> I am happy to give input to help out where possible
> I suggest the majority of core committee should be a mixed representation of stakeholders from the area if possible.
> Key theme suggestions "Is it time to cross paths", "The seafood training career pathway", "Seafood training corridor" eg. Where are we at in creating a smooth training pathway for our clients? What efforts have been attempted? What has worked and what hasn't? What is the best way forward.
> Re. Stand alone Aqua-Ed. I personally think it is the way to go before the main conference as Justin indicated.
> Re. Launceston or Hobart. It depends on a range of factors, the facilitators ability for pre-setup arrangements, cost of facility and catering expenses, you would need to get the numbers to justify the cost, to get the numbers the cost needs to be reasonable, it would be good to see some industry and the university if possible.

Regards,

Joe.

[Stuart Whitney]

Stuart Whitney would lik to help Louise on the AquaEd Steering/Program Committee