Keywords: Secondary School
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 26 May 2008
1 Comment
The text is from Professor Frank Brennan's 2008 Institute of Justice Studies Oration from 22 May 2008.
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AUSTRALIA
- Gillian Bouras
- 28 April 2008
6 Comments
The proposed performance-related pay
structure for teachers, whereby short videos
will be made of teachers in the classroom, seems geared towards extroverts. Individuals with a more flamboyant style will likely be deemed the better
performers.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Peter Steele
- 25 July 2007
A poem recollecting visits to the Jesuit-run Belvedere College, in the north of Dublin, where James Joyce had most of his secondary schooling.
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AUSTRALIA
- Michele Gierck
- 18 May 2007
Michele Gierck meets the people on the other end of the line
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Gil Maclean, Siobhan Jackson, Allan James Thomas
- 18 May 2007
Reviews of the films Hero; The story of the weeping camel; In my father’s den and Steamboy.
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CONTRIBUTORS
- Anthony Hallam
- 17 May 2007
Tony Hallam is a secondary school teacher in Gympie, and teaches students affected by the Mary River dam.
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CONTRIBUTORS
- Clive O'Connell
- 17 May 2007
Clive O'Connell has taught secondary school English for 34 years; currently he lectures in project management and consultancy/business organisation, and also tutors in linguistics. He has been a music and opera critic for 32 years, first for The Australian, and then the Age.
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CONTRIBUTORS
- Chris Fotinopoulos
- 17 May 2007
Chris Fotinopoulos is a Melbourne based writer and secondary school teacher. He also teaches ethics at the Monash University Medical School.
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CONTRIBUTORS
- Maria Vamvakinou
- 17 May 2007
Maria Vamvakinou has been Labor Member for Calwell since 2001. Prior to her election, Maria worked for two State Labor Ministers and a Federal Labor Senator. Her main areas of interest are multiculturalism, human rights, foreign affairs, immigration and social justice.
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AUSTRALIA
A Fairfax press article last week speculated about the Labor leader's reluctance to talk about his 18 months as a boarder at Brisbane's Marist College Ashgrove. It is most likely that his greatest difficulty was his need to grieve after the sudden death of his father.
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AUSTRALIA
- Greg O'Kelly
- 02 April 2007
3 Comments
Australia is ranked 29th internationally in the teaching of maths and science. To suggest that a national curriculum would raise such a ranking is a non sequitur. Curriculum is about content. It's standards that refer to performance measurement.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Jack Waterford
- 23 December 2006
Kevin Rudd and Julia Gillard are enjoying their bounce, and their honeymoon, as John Howard predicted they would. Early polls suggest a marked upsurge in the Labor vote, in approval for the Labor leadership change, and in comparisons between the performance of Rudd and the Prime Minister. Were an election to be held now, one might think Labor would romp it in.
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