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Recent headlines . . .
Teacher dies in tsunami
VIC - Mentor and teacher at Mount Clear
College, Vivien Hodgins, has been killed by the tsunami
that hit Samoa.
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Business merge not to proceed
VIC - 'The Age' has reported that The
University of Melbourne is no longer considering a merge
between its Melbourne Business School and its economics
faculty
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newspaper report
Face to face bullying still active
NATIONAL – Australian research has
found that bullying is more common in the playground than
online.
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newspaper report
No welfare payments suspended under plan
NT - Centrelink has confirmed that no
parents have had their welfare payments suspended under
the School Enrolment and Attendance Measure in the Northern
Territory.
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newspaper report
Coaching better principals
NATIONAL – The Rudd Government is
planning to send high achieving principals to coach under
performing principals at indigenous schools to help improve
standards.
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newspaper report
New Centres for Excellence
NSW - Thirteen public primary and secondary
schools have been chosen to become Centres for Excellence.
The chosen schools will work with universities to improve
teaching standards.
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newspaper report
Changes to loading
NATIONAL - The federal government may
quadruple the loading for low socioeconomic and disadvantaged
students, under its new draft guidelines on equity funding.
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newspaper report
Fences may separate schools from community
NT - Criminology expert, Professor Paul
Wilson, has said the decision by some Northern Territory
school to erect high boundary fences may risk isolating
schools from their neighbours.
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newspaper report
Opinion . . .
Ethics debate
NSW - This opinion piece looks at the
uproar over the parents who want their children to take
part in a trial ethics course in lieu of a weekly hour of
scripture lessons.
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Good news . . .
One Laptop Per Child in Australia
NT - The One Laptop Per Child Initiative
has come to Elcho Island, in the Northern Territory, and
has provided students with their own 'XO' computers.
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newspaper report
International
Student death not due to vaccine
UK - Cervical cancer vaccinations at schools
have resumed, after it was found that a 'serious underlying
medical condition' caused the death of student Natalie Morton,
not the vaccine.
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newspaper report
Student to win plasma
TV
USA - The Detroit district is giving away a plasma TV to
lure students to school on 'Count Day', the day where students
are tallied to determine state funding.
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newspaper report
ACEL Noticeboard
How can corporate Australia support our schools?
Business Class: How Can Corporate Australia Support
Our Schools? is to be held at Melbourne's iconic
NGV International on October 20 and will feature a panel
of leading figures from some of the most influential and
respected organisations operating in the Australian education
landscape today.
The panel put in place by Spheres of Influence to debate
the issue of how corporate Australia can support our schools
features:
Prof. Brian J Caldwell, Managing Director, Educational Transformations;
Adam Smith, CEO, Foundation for Young Australians; Dr Steve
Holden, Managing Editor, Teacher Magazine; Jenny Lewis,
CEO, Australian Council of Educational Leaders, and Rupert
Macgregor, Executive Director, Australian Council of State
School Organisations.
''The aim is to disseminate the major issues on the
subject of corporate Australia's involvement in education
and create some tangible outcomes to help shape the future
of a subject that is gaining an increasing amount of attention
and has a significant bearing on the future education of
Australia's children and young people,' said Patrizia Torelli,
Managing Director, Spheres of Influence International.
The event comes at a time when the answer to the question
of corporate Australia's role in supporting our schools
is yet to be answered by Government. Speaking recently on
the
topic, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Education
The Hon Julia Gillard MP said: ''Clearly, we [The Rudd
Government] believe the engagement of corporate Australia
with schools has to be on the basis of making a genuine
difference, not on the basis of product promotion [...].
But I do believe that corporate Australia can play a role
in supporting our schools.'
It is critical that in the next few months the education
sector takes steps to develop a concerted viewpoint on how
corporate Australia can support our schools and Business
Class provides a significant opportunity to foster dialogue
on the subject.
Spheres of Influence aims to produce tangible outcomes with
which to move forward and ensure Australia is a world leader
in the responsible and mutually beneficial engagement of
the corporate world with schools.
Tickets can be purchased by visiting: http://www.sofiibusinessclass.eventbrite.com/
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