Foundation Skills
The Foundation Skills team at CDU is the leading provider of English language, workplace literacy, numeracy and digital literacy training in the Territory.
By accessing Foundation Skills for Your Future funding from the Federal Government Department of Employment and Workplace relations (DEWR), we can upskill your workforce through programs tailored to your business and your employees’ needs.
We also provide personalised training courses to individual participants who want to improve their English language, literacy, numeracy and digital skills.
Our team
Britta White - VET Trainer/ Workplace Assessor
With over 20 years of teaching experience, teaching English as an additional language to secondary school aged and adult learners and coordinating English language and settlement programs, Britta is dedicated to supporting the LLND needs of Territorians.
8946 6138
Joy Harley - VET Trainer/ Workplace Assessor
Joy has extensive experience in adult education as a language and literacy practitioner. She started her teaching career as an English as a Second Language (ESL) secondary teacher in Northeast Arnhem Land more than 20 years ago and since then has worked with adult learners across a vast range of remote and urban settings in the NT and beyond.
8946 6276
Hieu Nguyen
Hieu has an extensive experience in teaching English as an additional language in several universities and institutions in Vietnam and China and presently at Charles Darwin University.
She has provided face-to-face and online classes to international participants and domestic ones from CALD backgrounds. Her teaching is embedded with practical activities based on cultural understanding to improve individual learners’ English language, literacy, numeracy or digital skills for their employment or study options.
8946 6462
Andrew Stechmann
Andrew has a wide range of experience in adult education, including teaching English Language at Universities overseas as well as Australia. Since arriving in the Territory over 15 years ago, he has worked in both Training and Higher Education at Batchelor Institute and CDU in a variety of roles. At CDU, these include lecturing in the Tertiary Enabling Program and Common Units, and more recently in student support as Peer Assisted Study Sessions (PASS) Coordinator. He has also worked as a contracted trainer in materials design and delivery for various organisations in the Top End.
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How it works
Employer workplace training
Upskill your workforce to improve English, oral and written communication skills, reading skills, numeracy skills and digital skills.
We will work with your organisation to develop tailored accredited and/or non-accredited training, to improve English, oral and written communication skills, reading skills, numeracy skills and digital skills. We will:
Assess workplace and employee language, literacy, numeracy and digital literacy (LLND) skills
Design a customised training model that suits your workplace environment
Support your employees to improve skills and apply them to the workplace
Provide recommendations and evaluation of the training to inform future professional development
Personalised training
Improve your reading, writing, speaking and digital literacy skills.
Our personalised training will help you to improve your literacy, numeracy and digital skills so that you learn the essential language and digital skills needed to succeed in your job.
Fee for service
The Foundation Skills Team can also provide fee for service training for your organisation for projects large or small.
Contact us to discuss your training needs.
Contact us
If you would like to discuss a workplace project or have any questions about the program, please don't hesitate to get in touch.
(08) 8946 6462 / (08) 8946 6183