Year 10 Applied Learning Program at Kyneton Secondary College. In back-to-back issues of the Curriculum Leadership Journal, educational communities from our LLEN area have been featured. This time it is the Year 10 Applied Learning Program at Kyneton Secondary College that has been featured. Richard Donker and Glenn Davey shared their work with us at the recent Future Minds Forum…
Monthly Archives September 2007
What you don’t know can hurt you. For those who think that publishing school test results are an evil
NCVER releases latest apprentice and trainee statistics. December 2006 quarter apprentice and trainee statistics for the Australian vocational education and training system are now available on the NCVER web site. [Adult Community Education Headlines]
Apple to Release iPhone on June 29th. Through a trio of commercials, Apple has revealed that Friday, June 29th will be the release date of the iPhone. The ads demonstrated some of the iPhone's unique combination of capabilities, including watching video, a "glass" (key-free) keyboard, rich email, and integration with Google Maps and local results (see "iPhone Seeks to Redefine…
Apple Improves MacBook Pro. Apple revamped its MacBook Pro line of portables today with faster processors, better graphics capabilities, 802.11n wireless networking (removing the need to run an enabler), and screens that are backlit using LED technology. I need to remind myself that the MacBook Pro I bought last November is still a perfectly fine machine for my needs, and…
New Version of Google Analytics! Today at the Emetrics Summit in San Francisco, Brett Crosby and Jeff Veen unveiled the new version of Google Analytics. We will be activating this new version on all current Analytics accounts over the next few weeks, so please be on the lookout for an email from us and keep an eye on your settings…
The budget that brings home the median voter?. Sometimes political science can feel a bit removed from the reality of politics. But in election years, it’s good to be reminded that the median voter theorem really does hold. The further behind a government thinks it is, the more it is likely to present policies that are very similar to those…
Sales of Australian Wine and Brandy by Winemakers. Value of exports reach new high [Australian Bureau of Statistics]
The New Nationalisers?. I was chatting with my colleague Bob Gregory about the budget today. Speaking with Bob is wonderful, since he always has something to say that’s a bit different from the punditry. This morning, he said “You know, it’s interesting. The public sector used to own assets like Qantas and the Commonwealth Bank. Then we sold them off.…
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