Category: Education & Training Management
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Google Stats on Education
Here are some interesting statistics on education provided by Google search result analysis. Click here to view the slideshow.
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Education across the World
Interesting video which worries me a little. I can see what he is doing and saying but I am not sure that education is about be more successful. The best? I am not sure what the best and successful is. If you take the economical view better education, better skilled and knowledgeable people, better country,…
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Gonski Overload. May He Rest in Peace.
I am getting a bit sick of hearing about the Gonski report especially when you suspect that it will probably fade away like most other reviews with little to show for the enormous expense. Here is a quick summary of what it is about from the government website. In 2010 the Australian Government commissioned a…
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Titles?
I have been thinking a great deal about what I should call myself, lately. I am the CEO of my company but I realised a long time ago that CEO actually meant Chief Everything Officer and if you have received and email from me you would have seen that exact title on my email signature.…
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Australian Education System – Can there ever be a balanced debate?
Please read this article first. I like it. It isn’t necessarily balanced but it is fair I think. Read the comments below it and your blood will start to boil depending on which side of the fence you belong to. I guess anything I add will be either be seen as stupid or wow,…
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Making Science Interesting
Good teaching and training is about making your content interesting by delivering it in a multitude of interesting ways. Maybe, toady you are going to have a beer, possibly a Guinness (a favourite beer of mine). Could a glass of Guinness be used to teach science. The video below proves it can. Can you make…
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Wake up Australian Curriculum
If you read the articles, newspapers and other internet traffic regarding education in Australia over the last few months, like I have, you would have been saturated in content about the failing school system, poor teaching standards, useless curriculum and the new educational blueprint for the future. Please watch the video below. It is about…
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VET Education in Australia
This recent article is a well thought out and researched article on the state of VET education in Australia. Take a few minutes to read it and like the author ask yourself the question, why are the various State Governments slashing publicly funded VET education? It really doesn’t make much sense. Read the article here.…
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What’s wrong here?
What’s wrong with this video? Can’t see the video – click here. I don’t want to be ageist but there is one person on this committee who is young and the rest appear to be closing in on retirement. If you want to change the future of education in Australia you need to talk to…
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Poor Education but Business as Usual
This article is exactly why I don’t see any significant changes occuring to Education over the next few years. You would of heard about or watched on TV how we ranked behind students in maths, science and reading in 26 other nations. Australia had the worst results of any English-speaking country. That is disgusting. Of…