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Geoff Masters

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Reporting and comparing school performances

Nationally comparable data about school performances should be reported to the public, but should not be used to create league tables, according to this paper

A world class education system? Evidence from PISA 2006

Does Australia have a world-class education system? If not, what kind of 'education revolution' would be required to achieve one? Geoff Masters examines findings from the OECD Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA)

Australian Certificate of Education: exploring a way forward

Geoff Masters sets out a proposal for an Australian Certificate of Education that would be available to all senior secondary school students, regardless of where they live in Australia

Public or private: where's the evidence?

Why do parents choose a public or private school for their children? Geoff Masters outlines the priorities of parents and argues for more evidence to be available help parents to choose a school

What makes a good school?

Highly effective schools - that is, schools that achieve high standards regardless of gender, family backgrounds or socioeconomic status - have a number of features in common

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Rethinking the Rules Governing Australia
16 March 2010

Australian citizens are being asked to provide input into a nation-wide
discussion about how to improve the rules governing our country.

Rethink Australia spokesperson Rodger Hills, says the time has come to
review the way Australia is run. “As citizens, we have a responsibility to
plan for a brighter future and a more enlightened democratic process than
the one we have inherited from our fore bearers.”

Rethink Australia has released a public discussion paper today to provide
the basis for dialogue and deliberation amongst members of the public over

Secrecy law reforms strike a blow to old culture of government secrecy
12 March 2010

The Australian Law Reform Commission report into Commonwealth secrecy laws, Secrecy Laws and Open Government in Australia (ALRC Report 112) is the result of a 15 -month inquiry which identified 506 secrecy provisions in 176 pieces of Commonwealth legislation, including 358 criminal secrecy offences.

WANTED: Communications Projects (Melbourne)
16 February 2010

RMIT University in Melbourne runs a degree program where groups of
communication research‐trained students work on a communication research
project for a not‐for‐profit client.

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