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Recent headlines . . .
Equity problem
NATIONAL – Education Minister, Julia Gillard, has said in a speech to the Brookings Institution in Washington that Australia has a 'serious educational equity problem'.
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NSW Government denies job cuts
NSW - The NSW Government has said it will not be cut special education teachers jobs, despite details of an Education Department memo reportedly seen by News Ltd that would reclassify teachers' jobs.
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Big earner
TAS - Education Department secretary John Smyth earns more than the man who appointed him, Premier David Bartlett. Smyth's role is to design and drive Tasmania's major post-grade 10 education reforms.
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Year 7 changes proposed
WA - The WA Secondary Schools Executives Association is pushing for Year 7 to be incorporated into high school.
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Wasteful spending: principals
NSW - Principals have expressed concerns about the centralisation of the purchase of goods and services for public schools.
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Education spending criticised
NATIONAL - Peter Costello has criticised the Rudd Government's spending on education.
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Pressure to merge
TAS - Tasmanian State School Parents and Friends president, Jenny Branch, has said stimulus funds offered to schools are putting undue pressure on school communities to agree to school mergers.
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Special school set to close
NSW - The Bellhaven Special School will close on July 10 unless it secures more public funding.
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Opinion . . .
Focus on jobs, not education
NATIONAL – Jennifer Buckingham writes about what she describes as 'the fiasco of the Building the Education Revolution program'.
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Good news . . .
Science students go global
WORLD - The International Science Fair at the Australian Science and Mathematics School is uniting students from around the world to talk about science.
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International
Slim chance of obesity
WORLD - An OECD paper has found a link between education and a decreased chance of being obese.
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Teachers to receive dyslexia training
UK - Children's Secretary Ed Balls has announced a plan that will see 4,000 teachers being trained in identifying and supporting students with dyslexia.
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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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