The Australian, State and Territory Education Ministers made further progress in working together to deliver collaborative national reform of schooling in Australia. In a major step forward for the shared national transparency agenda, Ministers also agreed on a framework for publication of comparable information about school performance and context: a vital collaborative reform. For the first time parents, teachers and communities will have access to nationally consistent information that details a school's results, its workforce, its financial resources and the student population it serves. From 2009 the new Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA) will be responsible for publishing relevant, nationally comparable information on all schools. This will include publication of the 2008 NAPLAN data and associated contextual information.
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- Education Network AustraliaEducation Network Australia (edna) was a collaborative project between all Australian governments, states and territories and sectors of education and training. The project was partly funded by the Australian Government Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations. Initiated in 1994 as a means to facilitate access to the internet for schoo […]
- Protection of children online. Risks faced by children online and policies to protect themAs increasing numbers of children worldwide enjoy the benefits of the Internet, they also face a spectrum of risks to which they are more vulnerable than adults. This report examines these risks as well as the policy responses of governments and other stakeholders to improve the protection of children online.
- ICT and the Australian CurriculumCurrently there is no published curriculum documentation for ICT Competence as a GC. Rather its place in the Australian Curriculum is recognised within each of the four published learning areas through embedding in content descriptions and/or achievement standards. As a learning area, work is just beginning on determining ICT's 'conceptual' ho […]