Thank you email to all my new Finnish and Austrian friends

Hi

I’m ready to fly home again after an amazing study tour of Finland and Austria and I wanted to say Thank you for helping me with my tour.

You and so many others have helped me with introductions, campus tours and conversations that have helped me to better understand the Finnish and Austrian vocational education systems.

I have to say I am very impressed.

Both Finland and Austria have incredibly professional systems where students receive excellent support from their teachers to prepare them for their careers.

I’m also very impressed by the partnerships between the business sector and campuses to ensure that students have the skills and knowledge to be successful.

I hope one day I will have the opportunity to repay your hospitality, if you are ever planning a visit to Australia I hope you will contact me so I can offer any advice or support I can. I think you would enjoy a visit to Australia, we also have a very good education system and I would be very happy to help you arrange visits to campuses.

We use a Moodle learning management system(LMS) to provide resources and tools for assessment submission for students. If you would like to access our LMS as a guest to see the resources and assessments we use in our courses just send me an email and I will send you more information

I will be in touch again later but I thought I would share some links to more information on the Australian vocational education sector that I work for.

Links

·         https://www.rit.tafensw.edu.au My Institutes website

·         http://e-standards.flexiblelearning.net.au/index.php e-standards for Australian flexible learning

·         http://riverinainstitute.libguides.com/content.php?pid=330321&sid=2750653#12963011 – Student information resources

·         https://online.det.nsw.edu.au/blog/908475-libraryblogriverina/ - staff online resources and notifications

·         https://www.facebook.com/RiverinaInstituteLibrariesElearning - Facebook site for our Institutes library

·         http://www.rit.tafensw.edu.au/course-information/recognition-and-rpl/ - Information for students with existing skills for recognition

·         https://learn.taferiverina.edu.au(Moodle learning management system(LMS))

·         https://learn.taferiverina.edu.au/course/view.php?id=1946 my departments LMS landing page

·         https://training.gov.au/Training/Details/ICT - Training package for all ICT courses

·         https://training.gov.au/Training/Details/ICTICT302 - National competency requirements for a common ICT unit

Thank you again for all of your help I am very grateful. Please keep in contact and let me know if there is anything I can do to help you.

George Holt

Head of Department, Information Technology

TAFE NSW Riverina Institute, Wagga Wagga Campus
Cnr Macleay and Coleman Streets, PO Box 2231, Wagga Wagga, NSW 2650

M +61 412 962 739   P +61 2 6938 1290   F +61 2 6938 1240  Information Technology Department