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ACEL's
2010 International Conference: Hosting and Harvesting
Sydney Convention Centre
29-30 September and 1 October 2010
Join us for three challenging and memorable
days of learning as we together pursue the improvement of
student and school outcomes.
With nine extraordinary keynotes, twenty-three
lead papers and over one hundred workshops to attend, this
will be the learning conference to attend in 2010. Our full
list of speakers and additions to the conference program
will continue to be updated on the conference website.
Remember to register for ACEL's 2010 International
Conference before 30th June 2010 to receive our early bird
rates.
To register online for the ACEL 2010 Conference
and for more information please visit:
http://www.acel.org.au/conference
This conference is not to be missed!
Recent headlines . . .
‘Hush money’ awarded to school
with BER troubles: Opposition
NSW - NSW Opposition Leader Barry O'Farrell
has described $400,000 of funding provided by the Federal
Government to Abbotsford Public School as ‘hush money’.
The money was awarded to the school after it sought help
regarding its Building the Education Revolution plans from
the Opposition.
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newspaper report
International student enrolment downturn
concerns
NATIONAL - The International Education
Association of Australia is seeking to meet with Education
Minister Simon Crean to discuss the downturn in international
student enrolments.
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newspaper report
Foster kids disadvantaged at school
NATIONAL – A study released by Anglicare
and Wesley Mission has revealed that children living in
foster care suffer higher rates of mental and physical illness,
which in turn has an effect on their education.
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newspaper report
What’s on Crean’s agenda?
NATIONAL – This article considers
the issues new Minister for Education, Simon Crean will
have to take on, after inheriting the Education portfolio
from Julia Gillard, including the Building the Education
Revolution funding issue.
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newspaper report
BER complaints to remain anonymous
NATIONAL – Head of the Building
the Education Revolution enquiry, Brad Orgill, has said
anonymous critics of the program will not have their identities
divulged during the complaints process.
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newspaper report
Britain and US hot student destinations
NATIONAL – Student recruiters in
China are reportedly turning from promoting Australia’s
education sector, to focusing on US and Britain.
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International enrolments predicted to plummet
ACT – The Canberra Institute of
Technology has forecast a drop in international student
enrolments of up to 30 per cent, as new immigration rules
begin across the nation.
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newspaper report
Body of missing teacher found
NATIONAL – The body of missing teacher,
Mille Johnston, has been found in Ecuador.
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newspaper report
Chief Information Officer moves from education
NSW - Department of Education and Training
chief information officer, Stephen Wilson, has reportedly
resigned from his position to take a job in the private
sector.
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newspaper report
NSW education technology gets funding injection
NSW – An investment of $430 million
has been allocated to IT and communications projects within
the NSW state education system.
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newspaper report
Security crackdown on arsons
VIC – Security guards are set to
monitor education buildings at ‘high-risk’ of
being attacked by arsonists.
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newspaper report
Opinion . . .
Funding essential to reform
NATIONAL - Leadership fellow at Education
Foundation and professorial fellow at the University of
Melbourne, Jack Keating, writes that independent and public
schools need similar levels of funding to ensure equity
and forward movement in Australia’s education system.
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newspaper report
Education head welcomes BER feedback
NSW – Director-General of the NSW
Department of Education and Training, Michael Coutts-Trotter,
writes in ‘The Australian’ that education figures
have nothing to fear by providing criticism of the Building
the Education Revolution project.
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newspaper report
Chinese higher education investment: no
threat
NATIONAL - Associate Professor Ren Huilian
has said that Australia’s higher education industry
should not be threatened by China’s investment in universities
and education.
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newspaper report
Good news . . .
Students gather for Braille Challenge
USA - Blind students from the USA and
Canada have gathered in Los Angeles to test their speed,
accuracy, proofreading, comprehension and graph reading
skills in the Braille Challenge.
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newspaper report
Night without shelter for students
QLD – A group of year 10 students
has camped outside for the night to learn more about homelessness.
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newspaper report
International
Communist school opens doors to journalists
CHINA – The media has been invited
to visit the secretive Central Party School, an education
facility where the country’s future Communist leaders
are taught.
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newspaper report
Schools have impact on student health: study
UK – A report has revealed secondary
school students who attend schools with healthier food,
vigorous physical education classes and wide health education
are less likely to have type two diabetes.
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newspaper report
Middle school end of the road for many students
CHINA - Education is not paid for by the
Chinese government after middle school, leaving many young
people without a complete high school education.
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newspaper report
ACEL 2010
Travelling Scholar Professor Alma Harris
Distributing Leadership: Generating
Leadership Capacity in and between Schools and across Systems
Professor Alma Harris is Pro-Director (Leadership) at the
Institute of Education, London and Director of London Centre
for Leadership in Learning. Her research work focuses on
organisational change and development. She is internationally
known for her work on school improvement, focusing particularly
on improving schools in challenging circumstances.
In her workshop Alma will:
- provide a clear account of distributed leadership in practice
offer evidence about its positive impact on organisational
and individual learning.
- give examples and practical illustrations of how it works
and what barriers may be encountered.
- discuss the difference between distributed leadership
and delegation.
- explain that distributed leadership does not mean everybody
leads.
- consider the leadership of professional learning communities
within, between and across schools and the role distributed
leadership plays.
- draw upon models of distributed leadership from other
sectors.
- look at how lateral capacity is built and the part distributed
leadership plays in generating leadership capacity between
schools and across systems.
This is a day not to be missed.
Don't miss out on this wonderful learning
experience. Please visit http://www.acel.org.au
for touring dates and venues.
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