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Marginson, Simon – Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 2000
Argues that the academic profession in Australia is undergoing a profound transformation with four dimensions: (1) globalization and strategic response to concomitant pressures and opportunities; (2) decline of governmental commitment to and funding of higher education; (3) the crisis of collegial values in an era of corporate and professional…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Educational Trends, Foreign Countries, Global Approach
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Lucas, Keith B. – Science Education, 2000
Reports on the agenda of an exemplary teacher as she planned for and implemented a visit to an interactive science center by her class of 12-year-old boys. Describes activity in three sections: pre-visit preparation, post-visit activities and reflections, and during the visit. Focuses on the nature of student learning and participant teachers'…
Descriptors: Educational Planning, Elementary Education, Experiential Learning, Foreign Countries
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Bannister, Marion; Rochester, Maxine – Australian Academic & Research Libraries, 1997
The literature of user-oriented performance measures was examined to develop performance measures for New South Wales Technical and Further Education libraries. The accountability and strategic planning nexus for the vocational education and training sector is considered in a framework of four approaches to performance measures: user perspective,…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Library Services
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Chinnappan, Mohan; Lawson, Michael J. – Learning and Instruction, 1996
Two studies involving a total of 66 Australian high school students investigated the effects of training in the use of general strategies on the performance of high- and low-achieving students in trigonometry. The positive effects of management training were identified for both high- and low-achieving students. (SLD)
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Geometry, High Achievement, High School Students
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Ryan, Jenny; Capra, Steph – School Libraries Worldwide, 2001
Describes the ILPO (Information Literacy Planning Overview) that combines facets of information literacy including critical thinking, problem solving, and information technology into a planning document to support teachers and teacher-librarians. Discusses the whole-school approach to integrating information literacy into the curriculum that has…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Curriculum Development, Educational Planning, Elementary Secondary Education
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Taylor, Sandra; Singh, Parlo – Journal of Education Policy, 2005
This paper reports on an interview-based study which explored the implementation of a major policy initiative in Queensland, Australia, with particular attention to social justice issues. Interviews were conducted with key policy actors in three sections of the bureaucracy: strategic directions, performance and measurement; curriculum and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Interviews, Equal Education
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Baldauf, Richard B., Jr. – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2004
After providing a brief general framework for language policy and planning, this article examines the case of language policy and planning in Australia with a particular focus on how one of the elements in that framework, prestige planning, might contribute to successful planning implementation, thereby adding to our more general understanding of…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Reputation, Foreign Countries, Social Status
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Sussex, Roland – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2004
David Ingram's "Language Centres" (2001) offers a descriptive and analytical study of meta-centres, their constitution, operation and engagement with their constituencies. This article is a combination of a review and an appreciation of Ingram's study, and--benefiting from the latitude offered by the genre of the review article--a set of…
Descriptors: Role, Language Planning, Foreign Countries, Information Centers
Gregory, Kelvin – International Education Journal, 2006
The South Australian Certificate of Education (SACE), introduced in 1992-93, is a credential and formal qualification within the Australian Qualifications Framework (AQF). SACE was recently subjected to a review that led to a series of significant recommendations. These recommendations came out of a process that began with the Review Panel…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Research Reports, Planning Commissions, Educational Certificates
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Winter, Jo; Pauwels, Anne – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2006
Viewing education as a complex site for endorsing and contesting knowledges and practices we explore its critical roles in feminist language planning. Many types of language planning have relied heavily on education for the implementation and spread of the particular reform agenda largely reliant on discourses of compulsory obligation (e.g.…
Descriptors: Feminism, Language Planning, Social Action, Educational Change
McKay, Penny – 1992
The paper surveys a number of projects and documents that are attempting or have claimed to describe a "long-term view" of English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) learning in schools. A long-term approach involves mapping needs and common pathways and measuring (assessing and reporting on) progress across learners, classes, and year levels.…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Long Range Planning
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Goulborn, Barbara; Manton, Susan – 1995
This guide provides information on developing and implementing a class on oral communication for adults in literacy education in Australia. It is organized in five chapters. Chapter 1 puts the course in the context of changes in literacy education policy and provides information on oral communication competencies. Chapter 2 provides the teacher…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Curriculum Development, Educational Planning
Kells, H. R., Ed. – 1990
The report examines the development and implementation of performance indicators at institutions of higher education, through presentation of position statements on 11 countries: Australia, Austria, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Greece, Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, and United Kingdom. General conclusions are summarized in an introductory…
Descriptors: College Outcomes Assessment, Comparative Education, Evaluation Criteria, Evaluation Methods
Carss, Marjorie, Ed.; Osborne, Alan, Ed. – 1982
Mathematical skills and reasoning and their applications are considered as forming one of the basic and essential areas of knowledge and experience that should be available to all Australian children. This collection of essays explaining problem solving in mathematics as an organizing theme for current and future curriculum development is a means…
Descriptors: Educational Planning, Elementary Secondary Education, Learning, Mathematical Applications
Atkinson, Elaine – 1986
Upon completion of a collaboratively generated plan for curriculum development in the state of Victoria, Australia, in the early 1980s, the state's education ministry appointed a committee to create and carry out a strategy for implementing the newly developed policies. The committee consisted of representatives from the state's education…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Educational Policy, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries
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