by Sandy Phillips | Feb 21, 2013 | Uncategorized
Policy Online is a research database and alert service providing free access to full text research reports and papers, statistics and other resources essential for public policy development and implementation in Australia and New Zealand. Policy Online monitors over...
by Sandy Phillips | Feb 18, 2013 | Uncategorized
Hothouse Tall poppies grow here. Hothouse is a week-long intensive program for Victorian students in Years 10 to 12, aimed at nurturing creativity and moving image skills. Ten students are hand-picked each year and dropped into a fast-paced production studio, to gain...
by Sandy Phillips | Feb 13, 2013 | Uncategorized
Education brings wide-ranging benefits to the society. For instance, more educated people tend to live longer… What is the ultimate purpose of education? Early philosophers such as Aristotle and Plato pointed out that education was central to the moral...
by Sandy Phillips | Feb 12, 2013 | Uncategorized
Check out the music children listen to, and you will hear rap and hip-hop songs about sex, violence, women as objects, and domination. Sometimes the questionable language is explicit and sometimes it’s implicit, veiled in metaphors. Ask children if the content...
by Sandy Phillips | Feb 1, 2013 | Uncategorized
ACER is conducting the third cycle of the Staff in Schools survey (SiAS) in 2013. SiAS is an Australia-wide survey to collect information directly from school teachers and leaders about their background and qualifications, their work, their career intentions, and...
