Schools
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Boardroom to classroom: the role of the corporate and philanthropic sectors in school education
This report delivers the findings of a research project carried out from 2008 to 2009 to explore the trends in corporate and philanthropic involvement in school education in Victoria, Australia and internationally that are supporting improved outcomes for students. This included a search of the local and international literature and the collection of qualitative data...
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Using The Le@rning Federation digital curriculum resources to enhance the education of Indigenous students
This report on a recent forum in Melbourne that brought together teachers of Indigenous students, Aboriginal education unit representatives and contact liaison officers from the states and territories, discusses the use of digital curriculum resources. The forum explored recent research and shared experiences about how teachers are using digital curriculum resources to improve outcomes and...
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Schools, Australia, 2008
The statistics in this publication relate to government and non-government schools, students and school staff, and were collected through the non-finance National Schools Statistics Collection (NSSC), which was established through the work of the Ministerial Council on Education, Employment, Training and Youth Affairs (MCEETYA). For more detailed information about the structure and scope of the...
Briefing paper
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. Written by Geoff Masters, Glenn Rowley, John Ainley and Siek Toon Khoo, the paper was prepared for the Ministerial Council on Education, Employment, Training and Youth Affairs to provide advice...
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Investigation of staff bullying in Australian schools: executive summary
More than 800 school staff members participated in this study, which found that 99.6 per cent of them had experienced one or more of the 44 kinds of bullying listed in the survey.