Archive for the ‘Industrial Issues’ Category
Tuesday, July 10th, 2012
I don't often copy an article published by a local newspaper but on this issue, one I'm passionate about and not just for self-interest reasons, I feel its important to it put out there for general community discussion.
VICTORIAN government schools are struggling to attract principals, with 60-hour weeks, "helicopter parents", ...
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Tuesday, September 21st, 2010
I've been feeling a mixture of guilt, fatigue and overload over the past month as I grapple with work commitments and university study so the blog has gone somewhat quiet of late.
But I couldn't help notice this article by Professor John Hattie published in the Age Newspaper.
A FEW days ago, not ...
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Tuesday, May 25th, 2010
I was watching question time in Federal Parliament the other night having arrived home from a late school council meeting. I know you must be thinking - what question time? There was a question put to one of the ministers about education and the minister were extolling the virtue ...
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Tuesday, January 26th, 2010
Over the past week newspapers all over Australia have featured articles and editorials on the Federal Governments new tax payer funded website "My School" which will allow parents [and others] to see how their schools rates against the national average in a series of tests [NAPLAN] and benchmarks [ i.e. ...
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Thursday, June 5th, 2008
On Wednesday the Australian Principal's Federation [APF] called a stop work over the proposed industrial agreement. Its the first time anyone could remember principal class officers taking industrial action as a group.
I took this image at the stop work meeting where over 400 normally conservative principals gathered to express this anger over ...
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