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Recent headlines . . .
Newspaper ban 'crazy': Gillard
NATIONAL - Federal Education Minister Julia Gillard has labeled a law, that bans newspapers from publishing data that compares NSW schools, as 'crazy'.
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Secret student results
NSW – Education Minister Verity Firth has said students' results not available to the public show schools with students of similar backgrounds differ 'starkly' in student performance.
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Community says no to Spencer Gulf 'super schools'
SA - Plans to replace 44 existing schools with nine 'super schools' across the Spencer Gulf reason have been shelved due to a vote by the community.
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Report on bilingual education
NT - The paper, 'Gaps in Australia's indigenous language policy: dismantling bilingual education in the Northern Territory', has said that the Northern Territory's decision to speak only English in the first few hours of the school day 'could spell the death of the remaining endangered indigenous languages in Australia.'
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Lecturer allegedly fired over marking issue email
QLD - University of Queensland history lecturer, Dr Andrew Gentes, says he was told to leave the university after sending an email to students claiming their work was the subject of 'serious marking violations'.
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International student attacks overemphasised: retiring vice-chancellor
VIC - Retiring Monash University vice-chancellor, Professor Richard Larkins, has said recent attacks on international students were regrettable but received an 'undue degree of emphasis' in the media.
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New national plans for child-care system
NATIONAL - State and federal governments have agreed to create a national childhood strategy, to make the child-care system nationally consistent and improve the quality of early education child-care.
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Chronic ear infections stop students from hearing
QLD - Up to 90 per cent of the students at the Cherbourg State School have some form of treatable hearing loss due to chronic ear infections, forcing teachers to wear microphones to help students hear.
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Class size changes needed: union
QLD - Queensland Teachers Union president, Steve Ryan, has said changes to the size of classes would improve the standards of literacy and numeracy in students more effectively than introducing new tests for teachers.
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Opinion . . .
Education the first step
NATIONAL - This editorial in 'The Australian' contends that education is the best way to begin to solve Indigenous disadvantage.
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New concept for education funding
NATIONAL - This opinion piece considers implementing a 'child-centred funding system' that focuses on funding for individual students.
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Good news . . .
Sunshine in the school holidays
QLD - Queensland students and teachers are enjoying good weather for their school holidays.
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International
Student denied university place after ethnicity lie
CHINA - Beijing University has denied a student a place after it was found he lied about his ethnicity on the national college admission test.
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Five year test plan
UK - Schools Secretary Ed Balls has announced plans for MOT-style checks for teachers every five years, to help improve classroom standards.
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ACEL Noticeboard
Educational Leadership and Coaching Conference
Macquarie University, Sydney
14 15 July, 2009
It is now widely accepted that coaching is a key element of successful leadership development and the most effective way to achieve sustainable results. For this reason Growth Coaching International (formerly Australian Growth Coaching), Macquarie University, and Australian Council for Educational Leaders (ACEL) are joining forces to launch the first Australian conference for educators that focuses on coaching and leadership development.
This is a conference with a difference. It applies coaching principles to ensure you maximise the learning you take away to create sustainable change in your work environment. You will hear about the latest research on leadership and coaching from exemplary overseas and local researchers and practitioners in the field of leadership coaching. You will also hear about inspiring case studies of how coaching has had a positive impact on results being achieved in schools and other educational institutions. This conference provides the opportunity for you and your leadership teams to be coached yourselves so that you walk away from the conference with a plan of action to be implemented immediately!
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