POSTGRADUATE PROFILES 2011 Karen Read, Doctorate in Education at the University of Western Australia The challenges are certainly related to balancing work-life-study. The role of a Principal is always busy and the balance for work-life alone is demanding, therefore when ...
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It is official – inequity diminishes us all
Richhard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett’s book, The Spirit Level: Why More Equal Societies Almost Always Do Better (London: Allen Lane, 2009) has taken readers in the UK and USA by storm. Wilkinson, an economic historian and Professor Emeritus at the ...
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It is concerning when poor research about teachers is made public. When that poor research is taken up by the media there is cause for greater concern. When poor research is taken up by policy makers then it is time ...
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Over the last 18 years, Australian research in schools, in particular the Secondary Schooling and Sexual Health (SSASH) studies have consistently revealed that around 10 per cent of young Australians are sexually attracted to people of their own sex or ...
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Regardless of the outcomes, the Gonski review and the four commissioned research papers it recently released are a game-changer in a decades-old debate. They already form a benchmark against which future decisions will be judged. We've had ample research and ...
More »The Schools Commission: It’s time to remember?
"An ill-suited body for formulating and driving a national vision and a national agenda for education". That was how the present ministerial council for education was described by leading educationalist, Brian Croke, director of the NSW Catholic Education Commission , ...
More »The writing’s on the wall
Monday, August 1 saw the long-delayed release of the draft NSW version of the new Australian English curriculum. Now sit back and watch the fights; not quite Tour de France, but it's always entertaining to watch argie-bargie over new English ...
More »At arm’s length
The most intriguing aspect of the four papers commissioned by the Gonski funding review panel and released August 31 is the fact that neither the education minister, Peter Garrett, nor chair of the review, David Gonski, wanted to acknowledge ownership. ...
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I have heard of all kinds of silliness that clusters around committees but I think New Zealand took the cake recently when a committee representing key education groups came together for a weekend assembly. The lofty purpose of this committee? ...
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If the digital world is the one which your students increasingly inhabit, how do you go about ensuring they behave in an ethical way? How do you prompt young people to consider their actions have consequences in the virtual world, ...
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