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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.
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 . . .
Universities not supporting visa cuts
NATIONAL - Universities have
warned Tony Abbott's plan to cut international student visa
numbers will hurt the education industry and cause huge
job losses.
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newspaper report
Coalition visa plan shocks student
leader
NATIONAL - President of La
Trobe University's international students' association,
Lily Yuen, has said she was 'shocked' to learn about the
Coalition's plans to cut international student visa numbers.
'International students don't just contribute economically
to Australia, but also to our cultural diversity. We're
not just cash cows - we actually provide other benefits
and skills,' she said.
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newspaper report
Asbestos substance found in 115 schools
QLD - The Education Department
has found Asbestolux, a product containing 70 per cent asbestos,
in 115 state schools across Queensland.
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newspaper report
Indigenous student funding lowered
NATIONAL - A new funding formula
by the Federal Government has left schools with indigenous
students without enough money to maintain out-of-class services.
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newspaper report
Indigenous enrolments on My School
NATIONAL - New South Wales
Aboriginal Consultative Group president, Cindy Berwick,
is questioning why the number of Indigenous students enrolled
in each school is published on the My School website.
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newspaper report
Toughen
up penalties to improve attendance: expert
NT - Territory Co-ordinator-General
Bob Beadman has said the penalties for parents not sending
their indigenous children to school need to be tougher.
A report by Beadman reads, 'Governments are not sending
a strong enough signal to the people of remote areas that
full school attendance is legally non-negotiable and that
failure to comply with the law will result in a range of
serious sanctions'.
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newspaper report
Calls for more specialised learning
groups
NSW - Families and teachers
have complained to the NSW parliamentary inquiry that there
are insufficient specialised learning groups for students
with autism.
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newspaper report
Enid Blyton books to be rewritten
NATIONAL - The publishers
of Enid Blyton's books, including the Famous Five and Faraway
Tree series, are re-editing the books to replace old-fashioned
words and phrases with their modern equivalents. Children's
Book Council president Maj Kirkland has said the publishers
should consider publishing a glossary at the end of the
book instead.
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newspaper report
Good news . . .
Holocaust survivors teach students
important lesson
NSW - Students from Canterbury
Boys High School have heard first-hand stories of Holocaust
survivors to encourage them to stand up to bullies.
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newspaper report
Opinion . . .
Gillard has 'changed the education
landscape'
NATIONAL - Prime Minister
Julia Gillard has started the ball rolling in education
reform - now it is time for her to properly implement those
new ideas.
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newspaper report
School rebates only to woo voters:
opinion
NATIONAL - This opinion piece
in 'The Courier Mail' contends that education rebates announced
by Labor and the Coalition have 'little to do with education
and everything to do with votes'.
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newspaper report
International
School for pregnant students considered
MALAYSIA - The Malaysian state
of Malacca is considering establishing a school for pregnant
teenagers, to help lower the numbers of abandoned infants.
However, only married students will be allowed to attend
the school.
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newspaper report
Further education helps dementia sufferers
WORLD - A European study has
proved further education helps a person cope with the physical
effects of dementia.
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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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