Non-Apprenticeship VET Profitable Path for School Leavers. Non-apprenticeship vocational training provides a successful pathway from school to further education for young people from a variety of socioeconomic backgrounds, a new report from the Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER) argues. The report, Non-Apprenticeship VET Courses: Participation, Persistence and Subsequent Pathways, suggests one in five Australians commence a non-apprenticeship vocational course…
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New NCVER 2005 Student Outcomes Survey. For the first time, student outcomes from all VET providers (not just TAFE), are included in this Australia-wide survey of more than 72-thousand students. This publication provides information regarding the training outcomes for students who've completed training during 2004 at TAFE institutes or other registered private and community education providers. The findings presented relate…
2006 Grants for State Schools. Grants for State schools under the Investing in Our Schools Programme (IOSP) are specifically targeted at smaller projects identified by school communities. In 2006 there will only be one round of applications per State or Territory. School communities will be able to apply in that round for projects of any size up to the $150,000…
Mennie Scapens and Deborah Fraser pull together a review of the literature on MI theory and examine the extent to which its applications have been found to be associated with improved student outcomes and other positive changes in the secondary school setting, and to ascertain the reasons why the theory, which has found such a ready audience among primary school educators,…
Ross Gittins, writing in The Age asserts: OUR miracle economy is running out of spark. The rapid productivity improvement of the 1990s has not continued into the noughties. Between 1998 and 2004, growth in multi-factor productivity dropped to a below-trend 1 per cent a year, compared with 2.1 per cent during the 1993 to 1998 growth cycle. …
Trying to meet the requirements of No Child Left Behind, thousands of schools are reducing class time spent on other subjects. By SAM DILLON. [NYT > Education] Link: Schools Cut Back Subjects to Push Reading and Math
Compromise: How to make breakfast. A creature of habit, I have just about exactly the same thing for breakfast every day, especially when I'm on the road. Here it is. An egg white omelet, made in a cast-iron skillet with fresh herbs and a whole... [Seth's Blog]
Gandhi: "Where there is injustice, I always believed in fighting. The question is, do you fight to change things or do you fight to punish?" [Scripting News]
Going Beyond Bubbles... "What if civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks had given up her seat on the bus?" "Your roommate has the answer key to a test and has offered to share it with you. What do you do?" These philosophical queries are two of many possible questions that will appear as a supplement to the common application for admissions…