Education Workforce Planning Taskforce
The Twomey taskforce looking at strategies to tackle education workforce supply and demand issues in Western Australia plans to listen to a wide range of stakeholders, ...
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Taskforce Tackles Teacher Supply Issue
Federal Labour Party's education policy paper, "New Directions for Our Schools", was released on March 19th 2007. An excerpt from the executive Summary is shown below:
Education is the key to maintaining our economic and social prosperity in an increasingly globalised and competitive world.
Australia must increase the number of exceptional school graduates, the average performance of our school graduates and reduce the number of those who fail to complete secondary schooling.
The economic research suggests that technological innovations, improving infrastructure and building human capital are where the greatest opportunities for productivity growth lie.
To read the policy paper, "New Directions for Our Schools" please click here.
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Demand for choice and diversity in schooling
ISCA Media Release - Feb 26 07 - ABS Schools Australia 2006.pdf ( 165Kb)
