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High-Impact Leadership' Symposium to be Held on April 13 http://www.virginia.edu/uvatoday/newsRelease.php?id=1848
According to reports, TEACHING students would not graduate from university unless they passed national skills tests, under a Labor plan to improve literacy and numeracy in Australian schools. Source: Labor plan to lift skills of teachers. Theage.com.au
I think it is a big step forward, and it should have happened 20 years ago
Business in the Community. [Link removed] The CRLLEN participated in an interesting, thought provoking and valuable forum session today, staged by the Victorian Office of Learning and Teaching, with guest David Grayson, CBE. The forum explored the relationships between schools and business with a focus on corporate social responsibility. David is part-time director of Business in the Community (BITC) which…
This is re-produced from Andrew Leigh's WebSite. Among the most interesting debates in economics today is the dispute between Jeffrey Sachs and William Easterly over how best to help the world’s poor. The discussion is interesting not only because it concerns the most important question in all of economics, but also because Sachs and Easterly happen to be exceptionally good…
New Paradigm of the Learning Process in era of Globalisation Information and communication technologies (ICT) have effectively revolutionized our society. In the era of globalisation, technology has dramatically penetrated into every area of society and, every aspect of social and cultural lives. But, teaching, and the world of education more generally have not taken the advantage of these changes. We…
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…
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]