Tag: reform

The BOSTES Review

Posted by | Published on August 20, 2016

The Review of BOSTES (Board of Studies, Teaching and Educational Standards NSW) commissioned by the NSW Minister for Education in March 2016 has been released. […] 

Read More
Posted in Education, Government, Professional development | Tagged , , , , , , | 10 Comments

A big task!

Posted by | Published on July 6, 2016

Greg Whitby is the only very senior educationalist that I know in NSW who regularly uses social media and blogging to highlight his educational beliefs […] 

Read More
Posted in Education, Government | Tagged , , , | 5 Comments

Gonski and Faux Reform

Posted by | Published on April 16, 2013

Now the extra base funding necessary to get us to this school resourcing standard over six years is $14.5 billion. It’s a lot of money, […] 

Read More
Posted in Education, Featured, Government | Tagged , , | 8 Comments

Great Teaching, Inspired Learning #2

Posted by | Published on March 7, 2013

A blueprint is a reproduction of a technical drawing…invented in the 19th century, the process allowed rapid and accurate reproduction of documents used in construction and industry. The […] 

Read More
Posted in Education, Featured, Government, Professional development | Tagged , , , | 9 Comments

What’s important?

Posted by | Published on May 17, 2012

The ritual dance, between the NSW Teachers Federation and the NSW Department of Education and Communities, continues over how education is organised in our state. […] 

Read More
Posted in Education, Featured, Government | Tagged , | 12 Comments

“If the education system was destroyed last night…”

Posted by | Published on March 4, 2012

“What is a system? A system is a network of interdependent components that work together to try to accomplish the aim of the system. A […] 

Read More
Posted in Education, Featured, Government, Professional development | Tagged , , | 14 Comments

Random Posts

LOAD MORE

#UtopiaforRealists #review and my #reading in May  →

Posted in Featured

Consider this: The word utopia means both “good place” and “no place.” What we need are alternative horizons that spark the imagination. And I do mean horizons in the plural; […] 

Orwell’s Scottish Ancestry & Slavery*  →

Posted in Featured

“He hated Scotsmen!”    Kay Ekevall “He wrote under the name ‘Orwell’, partly because he preferred separate identity as an author, partly because he disliked he idea of family origins […] 

#STC1984 #Orwell A New Adaptation by Icke & MacMillan #review and my #reading in July  →

Posted in Featured

“I think we’ve ended up being incredibly faithful to the book.” Duncan MacMillan George Orwell’s last novel, published in 1949, was not expected to have much of a shelf life […] 

Orwell in Paris: Aunt Nellie  →

Posted in Featured

George Orwell aka Eric Blair (1903-1950) died seventy years ago today, on the 21st January 1950. His favourite aunt, Nellie Limouzin (1870-1950), passed away five months later in tragically sad […] 

UA-6171563-2