IF YOUR SCHOOL IS APPLYING TO BE AN INDEPENDENT PUBLIC SCHOOL Senate Education Committee Rebuffs Govt & Coalition on School Autonomy
May 20, 2013, Hits:71
The Senate education committee has delivered a major rebuff to the Federal Government and the Coalition on school autonomy. It says that there is no clear evidence that greater school autonomy leads to better student performance and recommends more r...
Read moreGarrett Admits: Little Evidence to Support School Autonomy
March 1, 2013, Hits:347
The Federal Minister for Education, Peter Garrett, yesterday completely undermined his own $500 million school autonomy program with a stunning admission in a letter published in the Australian Financial Review. He said: ...there is ...
Read moreMore Collaboration is Needed to Counter the Damage by School Autonomy
February 5, 2013, Hits:282
School autonomy is a threat to the spread of best practice teaching and learning between schools according to a submission to the Senate inquiry on teaching and learning by Save Our Schools (SOS). National convenor, Trevor Cobbold, said school autono...
Read moreStaffing Must Be Centralised
February 4, 2013, Hits:297
The WA Public schools system and the Department’s capacity to have schools staffed for a new school year has become more complicated as it has seen the expansion of the Independent Public Schools system. The complexities of staffing a public school ...
Read moreIndependent Public Schools are No Panacea for School Improvement
January 31, 2013, Hits:311
A review of academy schools, the English version of independent public schools, says that they are not a “panacea” for better schools. The report published earlier this month by the Academies Commission says “greater independence and freedom are not ...
Read moreThe IPS Debacle Continues
January 23, 2013, Hits:379
State School Teachers Union President Anne Gisborne said today that Education Minister Peter Collier’s announcement that he plans to make almost every school an Independent Public School (IPS) is a complete abdication of the Barnett Government’s resp...
Read moreSchool Autonomy Brought a Lost Decade in NZ Education
December 10, 2012, Hits:373
School autonomy was responsible for a “lost decade” in education according to one of New Zealand’s leading education researchers. In a new book published last week on New Zealand’s system of selfmanaging schools, Dr. Cathy Wylie of the New Zealand Co...
Read moreSurvival of the fittest
December 3, 2012, Hits:371
Some schools are paying a high price for market-driven reforms. It has been five years since Professor Stephen Lamb published research demonstrating that 25 years of market reforms in schools in Victoria had increased educational inequality and disa...
Read moreIndependent Public Schools Review
November 22, 2012, Hits:436
The Barnett Government commissioned an independent review of IPS after much criticism from the Union and other parties. We will be bringing our concerns formally to the Minister. Did you know? a) key stakeholders such as WACSSO, the SSTUWA, Uni...
Read moreAEU Report: School Autonomy In ACT
September 5, 2012, Hits:658
ACT schools have been involved in their version of Independent Public Schools. Recently the AEUACT ran a survey across the 23 schools involved in the roll out of autonomy. Nearly 200 responses from school leaders and teachers were received. The data...
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