UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning. The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Institute for Lifelong Learning is being transformed into a fully-fledged international UNESCO Institute. The Institute will be responsible for UNESCO's work in literacy, non-formal education and adult learning. [Adult Community Education Headlines]
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School levies. VICTORIA'S commitment to free schooling for all children is part of the 1872 Education Act. [Herald Sun | Opinion]
$162m deal for faster internet. Affordable broadband internet will be made available across Australia as part of a $162.5 million package to be unveiled today by the Australian Government. [School Education Headlines]
Kottke’s Geography. At this geography page, I could only remember these countries (got 102 right): Afghanistan, Algeria, Andorra, Argentina, Armenia, Australia, Austria, Bangladesh, Belarus, Benin, Bhutan, Bolivia, Botswana, Brazil, Canada, Chad, Chile, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Croatia, Cuba, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Dominica, Egypt, El Salvador, Estonia, Ethiopia, Fiji, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Hungary, Iceland, India, Iran, Iraq,…
Behavior Influence Techniques. The following collection of different behaviour management techniques are pro-active, classroom-centred, and teacher-initiated. They are all designed to avoid confrontation. [Recent Items]
Hannah Arendt and Jean Baudrillard: pedagogy in the consumer society. Trevor Norris explores the contribution of Hannah Arendt and Jean Baudrillard to our appreciation of education today. [Recent Items]
A time for action on climate change. "This report represents a leap forward in our scientific understanding. It makes it clear, more convincingly than ever before, that human actions are writ large on the changes we are seeing, and will see, to our climate." By press@royalsoc.ac.uk. [The Royal Society Press Releases]
How do you save Five Million Dollars?. Easy.... Community Partnerships... Based on our calculations using the Business Council of Australia's "cost of dropping out" research, the combined CBVCAL programmes across Mitchell and Macedon have supported 109 young people as at 31st December 2006 and have saved the community between 4.03 and 6.54 Million dollars in lost productivity. An amazing set…
The ABCs of merit pay. Stan Correy, from ABC Radio’s Background Briefing program, put together a nice program on teacher merit pay, based in part on the conference I held recently on the economics of teacher quality. Here’s the Background Briefing transcript and podcast. John Garnaut also had a terrific piece in last Saturday’s SMH on the topic of merit…