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Kevin Rudd knows a lot about Asia, and especially China. That makes him unusual in this country. Despite decades of educational effort, young Australians are still receiving an education that is overwhelmingly focused on Australia and Europe. The evidence is ...

Over a one-week period each school year, over a million Australian students in Years 3 to 9 complete between two to three hours of tests. The first release of information occurs almost five months later based on how many test ...

In October last year, a survey of almost 2000 parents overwhelmingly called for information about individual schools to be made available to the public. As part of the education revolution, the government is committed to a new era of transparency ...

Areas of public policy tend to have their periods of dynamism and stability. Institutional obsolescence, internal and external shock, and political factors can all lead to policy turbulence and change. The change can ameliorate these pressures and allow relative stability ...

Professor Jack Keating presents a visionary national reform agenda for Australian schooling. It is time for the community to adopt the language of radical dissent. The community must agitate for significant, systematic and sustained change. This is necessary if Australia ...

Jane Caro’s article (ER, February 2009) on the downside of gifted and talented or selective schooling, as evidenced by her daughter’s experiences, describes a scenario with which many parents of kids identified as G&T would be familiar. After the advantages ...

When I was given the honour of being named Australian of the Year for 2009, I said I wanted to talk about the protection of the rights and human dignity of all Australians. I said that sometimes we don’t speak ...

Cathy Wever reports. As the foundation principal of a fledgling institution Kerrie Heenan decided to take advantage of the Victorian education department’s Professional Coaching for Principals program, in order to cement and develop the skills of her leadership team. Heenan’s ...

Cathy Wever reports. Successful organisations have capable, confident, skilled leaders. Schools are no exception. To effectively run a school the person on the ground needs the ability to make a whole range of decisions. In other words, they need autonomy ...

Bringing principals from small rural schools together to collaborate and share resources is the aim of a three year research project taking place in Victoria. Professor Karen Starr and Dr Simone White, of Deakin University’s Centre for Educational Leadership and ...