Rethinking Multiculturalism/Reassessing Multicultural Education Project Report Number 2: Perspectives on Multiculturalism is the second report of Rethinking Multiculturalism/Reassessing Multicultural Education (RMRME), an Australian Research Council (ARC) Linkage Project between the University of Western Sydney (UWS), the NSW Department of Education and Communities (DEC) and the Board of Studies, Teaching and Educational Standards (BOSTES) incorporating the...

The Australasian Council of Deans of Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (DASSH) note the four ambitions of the Competitiveness Agenda (p. 2). In addition, we also acknowledge the four elements used to illustrate the claim that Australia has a poor knowledge transfer base (p. 4). In our view, the bulk of the discussion paper presents...

The NQF Snapshot Q3 2014 is ACECQA’s seventh national report on children’s education and care services. The data presented in this Snapshot was taken from the National Quality Agenda IT System (NQA ITS) on 1 October 2014 for the quarter ending 30 September 2014. To demonstrate changes over time, including the number of approved children’s...

The NQF Snapshot Q2 2014 is ACECQA’s sixth national report on children’s education and care services. The data presented in this Snapshot was taken from the National Quality Agenda IT System (NQA ITS) on 1 July 2014 for the quarter ending 30 June 2014. To demonstrate changes over time, including the number of approved children’s...

The Australasian Council of Deans of Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (DASSH) has some concerns at some of the proposed changes to the ARC Discovery Program funding rules. These concerns relate to the proposals for cross-scheme limits in the Discovery Program schemes and to the eligibility rules for the Future Fellowships. Along with raising these...