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MINISTER FOR THE ENVIRONMENT, LAND AND PLANNING

LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY QUESTION

QUESTION NO 587

Municipal Officers - Literacy

Assessment Project

Mr Cornwell - asked the Minister for the Environment, Land and Planning - Listed. under contracts arranged by the Lands Division. (DELP) in the ACT Gazette No 7, 17 February 1993 is Contract 500718 for ACT Literacy Assessment Project. ($7,000 ACT Local Government Industry Training Council Inc)

(1) How will this project be conducted.

(2) What areas and who will be assessed.

(3 When will the project be completed.

(4) Will the results be made available to interested parties

Mr Wood - the answer to the Members question is as

follows:

(1)The project was conducted by a suitably qualified

officer with part-time assistance by an officer from the

Canberra Institute of Technology. The project was highly

consultative and used a random sample of employees.

(2)Thirteen areas classified as."municipal".from the

Departments of Environment, Land. and Planning and Urban

services were involved, with a total of eighty

participants from the industrial workforce.

Participants were assessed after analysing the results gained from nine instruments which were designed to conduct the study.

(3) The study project was completed in June 1992 and the

results were launched by the Minister for Urban Services

on 16 July 1992. ..

(4)Yes. Copies of the report, together with a

summary paper were widely distributed to all interested

parties during July 1992. It is one of the few literacy

studies undertaken in Australia and the first for the ACT

workforce and has been commended at the National

level. (ALGTB)

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