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English, Bill. "The Tertiary Education Advisory Commission (TEAC) reforms." Journal of Management & Organization 12, no. 1 (June 2006): 68–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1833367200004168.
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In this article Bill English, New Zealand's Shadow Minister for Education, tells the story of New Zealand's tertiary education policy development over the past several years. His perspective comes from time in government and from time in opposition. He concludes with the lessons to be learnt, and his prognosis of the main issues to be confronted by that tertiary sector, in the years to come. The lessons to be learnt are just as valuable for the Australian sector as they are for New Zealand academicians.In this article, Polytechnics are the equivalent of the old Colleges of Advanced Education in Australia, or roughly between the TAFE and university sectors. MMP (mixed member proportional) is the proportional system of electing the New Zealand Parliament. This system is similar to the method by which Australians elect their federal Senate. A Wananga is a tertiary institution set up by statute to focus on the educational needs of Maori.
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English, Bill. "The Tertiary Education Advisory Commission (TEAC) reforms." Journal of Management & Organization 12, no. 1 (June 2006): 68–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.5172/jmo.2006.12.1.68.
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In this article Bill English, New Zealand's Shadow Minister for Education, tells the story of New Zealand's tertiary education policy development over the past several years. His perspective comes from time in government and from time in opposition. He concludes with the lessons to be learnt, and his prognosis of the main issues to be confronted by that tertiary sector, in the years to come. The lessons to be learnt are just as valuable for the Australian sector as they are for New Zealand academicians.In this article, Polytechnics are the equivalent of the old Colleges of Advanced Education in Australia, or roughly between the TAFE and university sectors. MMP (mixed member proportional) is the proportional system of electing the New Zealand Parliament. This system is similar to the method by which Australians elect their federal Senate. A Wananga is a tertiary institution set up by statute to focus on the educational needs of Maori.
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Donovan, Jerome Denis, Alex Maritz, and Andrew McLellan. "Innovation training within the Australian advanced manufacturing industry." Journal of Vocational Education & Training 65, no. 2 (June 2013): 256–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13636820.2013.783614.
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Watson, Louise. "Public Accountability or Fiscal Control? Benchmarks of Performance in Australian Schooling." Australian Journal of Education 40, no. 1 (April 1996): 104–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/000494419604000107.
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The Industry Commission review of service provision in school education aims to define performance benchmarks for Australia's eight government education systems, by providing comparative measures of efficiency in education provision. Such benchmarks are likely to lead to a reduction in the level of public resources for government schools unless it is possible to demonstrate the link between expenditure on schooling and school effectiveness. If efficiency audits like the Industry Commission review are to deal with issues of school effectiveness adequately, they should avoid the tendency of previous public sector audits to focus on financial data on schools expenditure to the exclusion of data on student achievement. This paper suggests an approach to measuring system performance which would establish benchmarks that reflected both the efficiency and effectiveness of Australian school systems, and warns against the misuse of performance indicators as an instrument in the determination of funding levels for schools.
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Potts, Anthony, Debra Edwards, and David Smith. "Disciplinary cultures in an Australian college of advanced education." Journal of Educational Administration and History 42, no. 4 (November 2010): 383–403. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00220620.2010.514042.
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Lampert, Jo. "Indigenous Australian Perspectives in Teaching at The University of Queensland." Australian Journal of Indigenous Education 24, no. 1 (April 1996): 35–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1326011100002234.
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The goals of the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Education Policy (AEP), the recommendations of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody and the broader implications of the High Court's Native Title decision place considerable pressure on the higher education system to move rapidly to achieve equity in access, participation and outcomes for Indigenous Australians and non-Indigenous Australians.
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Forsyth, Hannah. "Post-war political economics and the growth of Australian university research, c.1945-1965." History of Education Review 46, no. 1 (June 5, 2017): 15–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/her-10-2015-0023.
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to consider the national and international political-economic environment in which Australian university research grew. It considers the implications of the growing significance of knowledge to the government and capital, looking past institutional developments to also historicise the systems that fed and were fed by the universities. Design/methodology/approach The paper is based on the extensive archival research in the National Archives of Australia and the Australian War Memorial on the formation and funding of a wide range of research programmes in the immediate post-war period after the Second World War. These include the Australian Atomic Energy Commission, the NHMRC, the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, the Australian Pacific Territories Research Council, the Commonwealth Office of Education, the Universities Commission and the Murray review. This research was conducted under the Margaret George Award for emerging scholars for a project entitled “Knowledge, Nation and Democracy in Post-War Australia”. Findings After the Second World War, the Australian Government invested heavily in research: funding that continued to expand in subsequent decades. In the USA, similar government expenditure affected the trajectory of capitalist democracy for the remainder of the twentieth century, leading to a “military-industrial complex”. The outcome in Australia looked quite different, though still connected to the structure and character of Australian political economics. Originality/value The discussion of the spectacular growth of universities after the Second World War ordinarily rests on the growth in enrolments. This paper draws on a very large literature review as well as primary research to offer new insights into the connections between research and post-war political and economic development, which also explain university growth.
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Abbott, Malcolm, and Chris Doucouliagos. "Total factor productivity and efficiency in Australian colleges of advanced education." Journal of Educational Administration 39, no. 4 (August 2001): 384–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/eum0000000005497.
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Leggat, Sandra. "Australian Health Review call for papers." Australian Health Review 30, no. 4 (2006): 417. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/ah060417.
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The Editor of Australian Health Review invites contributions for an upcoming issue on health professional education. Submission deadline: 6 February 2007 It is expected that tertiary education and research for health professionals will be the focus of substantial change over the next couple of years. The health professional workforce has been the subject of recent studies in Australia and New Zealand. The New Zealand Health Workforce Advisory Committee has focused on ensuring an effective strategic framework and outlined seven principles comprising equity and appropriateness, strategic and sustainable supply, healthy workplaces, collaborative practice, effective education, stakeholder involvement and information and monitoring.1 In Australia, the Productivity Commission made strong recommendations directed at improving health professional education to enhance coordination, reduce practice barriers and address shortages of health professionals. 2 To help inform policy and practice, Australian Health Review is looking to publish feature articles, research papers, case studies and commentaries related to health professional education. Potential topic areas include: � Addressing health workforce challenges � Multidisciplinary professional practice and interdisciplinary education � Management education and clinician managers � Evidence-based education � Sector-based approaches to education and training � Partnerships and social change � Impact of national education and research policy on health professional education. Submissions related to international programs with lessons for Australia and New Zealand will also be welcomed. Submissions can be short commentaries of 1000 to 2000 words, or more comprehensive reviews of 2000 to 4000 words. Please consult the AHR Guidelines for Authors for information on formatting and submission.
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Anwyl, John, and Margaret Powles. "Priority clienteles for external studies in Australian universities and colleges of advanced education." Open Learning: The Journal of Open, Distance and e-Learning 4, no. 2 (June 1989): 7–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0268051890040203.
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Bullivant, Brian M. "The Ethnic Success Ethic Challenges Conventional Wisdom about Immigrant Disadvantages in Education." Australian Journal of Education 32, no. 2 (August 1988): 223–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/000494418803200206.
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A research project for the Human Rights Commission using a non-random (quota) sample of seven high schools within metropolitan Melbourne during 1985–86 aimed to establish whether prejudice and discrimination were affecting the occupational socialisation of senior students. Three sources of possible discrimination were hypothesised: (a) the school curriculum, structure and organisation; (b) the dynamics of interactions between non-English-speaking (NES) and Anglo-Australian students; (c) the wider school context and community. Little evidence was found that systemic discrimination existed. Many teachers favoured NES (especially Asian) students for valued traits such as diligence, discipline, achievement orientation. Many Anglo-Australian students displayed prejudice towards NES students especially because they worked too hard and had ‘brains’. NES students were contemptuous of Anglo-Australians for lacking achievement motivation and parental support. Evidence was found that both ethnic groups and Anglo-Australians in the wider community discriminated against students in jobs. The study generated speculation about the influence of the ‘success ethic’ motivating NES students and used corroborative overseas and Australian evidence to suggest that the phenomenon may be ubiquitous in western societies.
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Radcliffe, J. C. "Evolution of water recycling in Australian cities since 2003." Water Science and Technology 62, no. 4 (August 1, 2010): 792–802. http://dx.doi.org/10.2166/wst.2010.362.
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The prolonged Australian drought which commenced in 2002, and the agreement between Australia's Commonwealth and States/Territories governments to progress water reform through the National Water Initiative, has resulted in many new recycling projects in Australia's capital cities. Dual reticulation systems are being advanced in new subdivision developments in Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide. Brisbane has installed three large Advanced Water Treatment Plants that are designed to send indirect potable recycled water to the Wivenhoe Dam which is Brisbane's principal water reservoir. Numerous water recycling projects are serving industry and agriculture. Experimental managed aquifer recharge is being undertaken with wetland-treated stormwater in Adelaide and reverse osmosis treated wastewater in Perth. New National Water Quality Management Strategy recycled water guidelines have been developed for managing environmental risks, for augmentation of drinking water supplies, for managed aquifer recharge and for stormwater harvesting and reuse. Many recent investments are part-supported through Commonwealth government grants. Desalination plants are being established in Melbourne and Adelaide and a second one in Perth in addition to the newly-operational plants in Perth, South-East Queensland and Sydney. Despite there being numerous examples of unplanned indirect potable recycling, most governments remain reluctant about moving towards planned potable recycling. There is evidence of some policy bans still being maintained by governments but the National Water Commission continues to reinforce the necessity of an even-handed objective consideration of all water supply options.
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Law, Helen. "Why do adolescent boys dominate advanced mathematics subjects in the final year of secondary school in Australia?" Australian Journal of Education 62, no. 2 (July 23, 2018): 169–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0004944118776458.
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In Australia, many students, especially girls, choose not to study advanced mathematics in Year 12 even though their schools offer relevant subjects. Previous studies have rarely examined, using nationally representative samples of Australian students, the extent to which teenage educational experiences and occupational expectations influence gender differences in later pursuits of advanced mathematics subjects. To fill this gap, I use multilevel logistic regression models to analyse the data from the 2003 cohort of the Longitudinal Survey of Australian Youth. My results show that students’ mathematics achievement, occupational expectations and self-assessed mathematical competence are crucial in explaining why boys are considerably more likely than girls to enrol in advanced mathematics subjects. The gender gap would decrease greatly if girls were as likely as boys to perform well in mathematics, to aspire to mathematically intensive careers and to have more confidence in their mathematical abilities when they were 15 years old.
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Clarke, Rufus, and Michael K. Morgan. "Education programs at the new Australian School of Advanced Medicine at Macquarie University." Medical Journal of Australia 187, no. 11-12 (December 2007): 685–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.5694/j.1326-5377.2007.tb01476.x.
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Corkish, Richard, Martin A. Green, Andrew W. Blakers, Paul L. Burn, Yi-Bing Cheng, Renate Egan, Kenneth P. Ghiggino, Paul Meredith, Fiona H. Scholes, and Gerry Wilson. "An overview of the Australian Centre for Advanced Photovoltaics and the Australia-US Institute for Advanced Photovoltaics." MRS Proceedings 1771 (2015): 33–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1557/opl.2015.364.
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ABSTRACTThe Australian Centre for Advanced Photovoltaics (ACAP) co-ordinates the activities of the six Australian research institutions and a group of industrial partners in the Australia-US Institute for Advanced Photovoltaics (AUSIAPV) to develop the next generations of photovoltaic device technology and to provide a pipeline of opportunities for performance increase and cost reduction. AUSIAPV links ACAP with US-based partners. These national and international research collaborations provide a pathway for highly visible, structured photovoltaic research collaboration between Australian and US researchers, institutes and agencies with significant joint programs based on the clear synergies between the participating organizations. The research program is organized in five collaborative Program Packages (PPs). PP1 deals with silicon wafer-based cells, focusing on three main areas: cells from solar grade silicon, rear contact and silicon-based tandem cells. PP2 involves research into a range of organic solar cells, organic/inorganic hybrid cells, "earth abundant" thin-film materials and "third generation" approaches. PP3 is concerned with optics and characterization. PP4 will deliver a substantiated methodology for assessing manufacturing costs of the different technologies and PP5 involves education, training and outreach. The main research topics, results and plans for the future are presented.
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Wallace, Tom. "Values and Spirituality: Enriching Curriculum Development and Teaching/Learning Processes for a New Millennium." Journal of Christian Education os-43, no. 1 (April 2000): 41–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/002196570004300107.
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Tom counted it a privilege to begin to work closely with Brian Hill from 1992, having been aware of his writing over some years, and having Brian as an examiner for his Ph.D. dissertation. They both contributed to the Values in Education Project (1994–96), and have worked together on the Religious Studies Committee of the Churches Education Commission and through the Australian Association of Religious Education. Tom comments. “I have greatly appreciated Brian's enormous scholarship and I know his contributions [in the different projects] have been valued and highly-respected.”
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Snow, Dianne. "Historicising the Integration Debate." Australasian Journal of Special Education 13, no. 2 (January 1990): 28–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1030011200022193.
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The history of special education is conceived within the integration debate in a way which lends credibility to two broad claims. The first is that governments have been lax in providing educational facilities for children with disabilities, while the second comprises an argument for shifting definitional control of the notion of ‘disability’ from the medical to the educational arena. The recent Report to the Australian Schools Commission on Integration in Australia exemplifies this stance by pointing to the initial reluctance of governments to assume responsibility for educating children with special needs, followed by their eventual involvement in establishing segregated educational facilities. With segregated schooling becoming the norm, the problem now confronting educators is how to integrate these students and their supporting resources into the regular school system.
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Walsh, Kerryann, Donna Berthelsen, Kirstine Hand, Leisa Brandon, and Jan M. Nicholson. "Sexual Abuse Prevention Education in Australian Primary Schools: A National Survey of Programs." Journal of Interpersonal Violence 34, no. 20 (September 5, 2019): 4328–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0886260519869246.
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In the 2017 final report of the Australia’s Royal Commission Into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, recommendations noted the importance of school-based prevention efforts to create child-safe communities. In this study, we report on a national evaluation of the nature and availability of child sexual abuse prevention programs delivered in Australian primary schools. A survey instrument, anchored in empirical evidence, was distributed to all providers of child sexual abuse prevention programs in Australian primary schools serving children aged 4 to 13 years. Respondents were program coordinators or facilitators who provided data on 35 school-based child sexual abuse prevention programs that reached 631,720 children (approximately 26% of the Australian primary school student population) in 1 year. On average, each program reached 18,049 children in a calendar year (ranging from 200 to 80,000 children). Median child age for program exposure was 8 years. However, program duration was poorly reported so it was difficult to establish what program dosage was received. Most programs (80%-94%) covered specific item content, “always or often,” for 13 important areas of content, including five of seven items that had the strongest evidence of effectiveness, derived from a recent Cochrane Review (e.g., distinguishing appropriate and inappropriate touching). Programs less frequently addressed such content as safety in using technology and perpetrator strategies (e.g., grooming). The findings provide important information about the scope and nature of child sexual abuse prevention programs, and baseline data against which future program advancements can be tracked.
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Duke, Chris. "Links between Further and Higher Education: The Case of New Zealand." Journal of Adult and Continuing Education 8, no. 1 (November 2002): 104–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.7227/jace.8.1.8.
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This article sketches distinctive and partly unique features of New Zealand society, its recent history, and its adult, community and tertiary education system, as a prelude to considering linkages. The absence of a distinct further education (FE) sector analogous to the British further education colleges (FECs) or Australian technical and further education (TAFE) institutes combined with a recent period of extreme economic rationalism to privilege competition over collaboration. A sharp change of direction in 1999 is leading into a new more planned tertiary system under a Tertiary Education Commission in 2002. This is likely to reward and drive up inter-institutional collaboration, probably also more sharply differentiating roles within the more planned tertiary sector. The article concludes by reflecting on distinctive strengths and shortcomings, and on lessons from New Zealand of possible interest elsewhere.
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Matthews, Kristie, Caroline Wright, and Catherine Osborne. "Blending work-integrated learning with distance education in an Australian radiation therapy advanced practice curriculum." Radiography 20, no. 3 (August 2014): 277–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.radi.2014.03.008.
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Sanga, Mapopa William, and Sherri L. Brogdon. "Designing for Distance Learning." International Journal of Online Pedagogy and Course Design 11, no. 2 (April 2021): 62–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/ijopcd.2021040105.
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This study analyzed the process through which 37 online courses were transformed using the three pillars course transformation method. The method advanced active learning and engaged learning in order to impact student success. The transformation process began with training of instructors on using the method booklet before they would continue by transforming their courses. During this transformation, instructors worked with an instructional designer assuming the role of a Higher Learning Commission Quality Initiative Project (HLC-QIP) consultant. The study analyzed the transformation process, focusing on the pedagogical support provided to course developers and the actual redesign process, benefits, and challenges.
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Morris, Albert. "Preparation of Australian Primary Teachers in the Teaching of Reading: 1976–1986." Australian Journal of Education 33, no. 2 (August 1989): 164–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/168781408903300206.
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This paper reports the findings of a ten-year follow-up study into the preservice preparation of Australian primary teachers to teach reading. The original study (Morris & Cope, 1978) surveyed 73 institutions which trained teachers to establish the number of class contact hours assigned to studies of the teaching of reading. Distinctions were drawn between the number of hours allocated in universities and colleges of advanced education and between states. The present study sought to establish whether changes in the numbers of hours allocated had occurred over the period, 1976 to 1986. Instead of distinguishing between types of institutions, this study distinguished between one-year, three-year and four-year teacher training courses. Data are provided on the number of hours allocated to studies which are directly concerned with the teaching of reading, and other studies which are related to but not directly concerned with the teaching of reading. Information is provided on the content of these studies.
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Silinzieds, Annette, Leonie Simmons, Karen-leigh Edward, and Cally Mills. "Nurse Education in Developing Countries—Australian Plastics and Microsurgical Nurses in Nepal." Plastic Surgical Nursing 32, no. 4 (2012): 148–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/psn.0b013e3182728267.
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Watterson, Ray, Robert Cavanagh, and John Boersig. "Law School Based Public Interest Advocacy: An Australian Story." International Journal of Clinical Legal Education 2 (July 18, 2014): 7. http://dx.doi.org/10.19164/ijcle.v2i0.121.
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<p>This article presents a case for law schools to undertake public interest advocacy. It argues that incorporating public interest advocacy into curricula and research enhances clinical legal education and enables law schools to make a distinctive and valuable contribution to justice and law reform. The article outlines an integrated model for law school based public interest advocacy based on the experience of one of Australia’s newest law schools at Newcastle in the Hunter region of New South Wales. The article then describes a recent public interest case undertaken by academics, clinicians and students at Newcastle law school, explaining their participation in the case and exploring the contributions made by the case to legal education, the correction of injustice and reform of the law.</p><p>The case, one of Australia’s most controversial deaths in custody, concerned the fatal shooting on Bondi Beach in Sydney in June 1997 of French photographer Roni Levi. The article examines the shooting, its investigation by police, a coroner and an independent commission of inquiry. It analyses the flaws in these legal investigations, considers their justice implications, and outlines the legal and policing reforms achieved through the case.</p><p>The article concludes with the suggestion that changes in law school culture as well as curriculum are needed to ensure that law schools embrace public interest advocacy and other forms of clinical legal education for the future benefit of the law and its students.</p>
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Thompson, Walter R., Garry D. Phillips, and Michael J. Cousins. "Anaesthesia underpins acute patient care in hospitals." Australian Health Review 31, no. 5 (2007): 116. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/ah07s116.
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The Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists (ANZCA) carried out a review of the roles of anaesthetists in providing acute care services in both public and private hospitals in Europe, North America and South-East Asia. As a result, ANZCA revised its education and training program and its processes relating to overseastrained specialists. The new training program, introduced in 2004, formed the basis for submissions to the Australian Medical Council, and the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission/ Australian Health Workforce Officials? Committee review of medical colleges. A revised continuing professional development program will be in place in 2007. Anaesthetists in Australia and New Zealand play a pivotal role in providing services in both public and private hospitals, as well as supporting intensive care medicine, pain medicine and hyperbaric medicine. Anaesthesia allows surgery, obstetrics, procedural medicine and interventional medical imaging to function optimally, by ensuring that the patient journey is safe and has high quality care. Specialist anaesthetists in Australia now exceed Australian Medical Workforce Advisory Committee recommendations
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Saleem, Qurat-ul-Ain, Aqil Shakoor, and Shabib Hassan. "FORMAL LEARNING AND DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS OF HEC FOR THE IMPROVEMENT OF EDUCATION SECTOR." Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities 60, no. 1 (June 30, 2021): 165–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.46568/jssh.v60i1.442.
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We are living in an era of development and innovation through research and learning. The nation that has achieved its development goals, has done through education reforms and a keen focus on strengthening its National Innovation System. In Pakistan, this role has fallen to the Higher Education Commission, commonly known as HEC. The Higher Education Commission (HEC) has attempted various activities for ceaseless improvement of the nature of advanced education as per the worldwide norms and to patch up post-auxiliary instruction to improve the instructive guidelines at the alumni level. Public Academy for Higher Education has been built up with the mean to plan and convey nonexclusive and need-based limit building and preparing programs in instructing and exploration for personnel just as a spotlight on scholastic administration and authority for the workforce and the board. Education Testing Council (ETC) has additionally been modified to normalize passage tests for the universities of Pakistan. The study focuses on the different programs run by HEC to develop the country’s formal learning program and education sector. Since its commencement, we investigate various projects created by HEC to encourage Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) and build up a superior staff for this reason.
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Cloney, Dan, Collette Tayler, John Hattie, Gordon Cleveland, and Ray Adams. "The Selection of ECEC Programs by Australian Families: Quality, Availability, Usage and Family Demographics." Australasian Journal of Early Childhood 41, no. 4 (December 2016): 16–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/183693911604100403.
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HIGH-QUALITY EARLY CHILDHOOD education and care (ECEC) programs have the potential to ameliorate socioeconomic status (SES) gradients. In the Australian ECEC market, however, there is no guarantee that children from low SES backgrounds access high-quality ECEC programs. This study tested the influence of family SES on the selection of ECEC program quality. Participants were 2494 children enrolled in up to 1427 ECEC classrooms (mean age at entry = 43 months, SD = eight months). The study controlled for a range of child, family, home and community-level background factors. Both cross-sectional (linear regression) and longitudinal (growth models) methods are used. The study confirmed that children from lower SES families were more likely to attend lower quality programs. Longitudinal modelling showed the largest quality gap before kindergarten. To narrow SES-related achievement gaps there is a need to significantly improve aspects of program quality that influence children's development, and specifically to do so in programs for younger children. There is a particular need to target ECEC programs in lower SES areas to ameliorate the observed SES quality gradient. The findings further challenge current policy directions from the Productivity Commission inquiry into child care and early learning.
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Parker, Rhian, Helen Keleher, and Laura Forrest. "The work, education and career pathways of nurses in Australian general practice." Australian Journal of Primary Health 17, no. 3 (2011): 227. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/py10074.
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There is little understanding about the educational levels and career pathways of the primary care nursing workforce in Australia. This article reports on survey research conducted to examine the qualifications and educational preparation of primary care nurses in general practice, their current enrolments in education programs, and their perspectives about post-registration education. Fifty-eight practice nurses from across Australia completed the survey. Over 94% reported that they had access to educational opportunities but identified a range of barriers to undertaking further education. Although 41% of nurses said they were practising at a speciality advanced level, this correlated with the number of years they had worked in general practice rather than to any other factor, including level of education. Respondents felt a strong sense of being regarded as less important than nurses working in the acute care sector. Almost 85% of respondents reported that they did not have a career pathway in their organisation. They also felt that while the public had confidence in them, there was some way to go regarding role recognition.
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Bowen, Jennifer. "Riding the Waves: Professor T. H. Laby as Imperial Scientist and Radio Visionary." Historical Records of Australian Science 28, no. 2 (2017): 91. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/hr17003.
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Thomas Laby, Professor of Natural Philosophy at the University of Melbourne 1915–1942, was an outspoken proponent of science broadcasting during the years when broadcast radio was developing in Australia. While earlier biographical studies have paid some attention to Laby's role in public affairs, there has been no discussion of his sustained advocacy for radio as a means of public education. This article shows how his position was supported by, and in turn enriched, his imperial politics as well as his commitment to scientific research; it draws on a range of archival materials from public hearings, the Australian Broadcasting Commission, and Australian universities. It shows Laby's remarkable grasp of a medium in its formative years, as well as his belief in the need for scientists to participate in social debate.
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Zhukov, Katie. "Exploring the content of instrumental lessons and gender relations in Australian higher education." British Journal of Music Education 25, no. 2 (June 11, 2008): 159–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0265051708007900.
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This observational study analysed the lesson content of 24 instrumental lessons (piano, strings and winds) using a gender-balanced sample (equal numbers of male/female teachers and students) from five Australian higher education institutions to ascertain the priorities of topics in advanced applied music lessons in the Western Classical tradition. The results were analysed according to gender to determine differences of approach between male and female teachers and male and female students. Same-gender and different-gender pairings were also considered. Technique was found to be of the greatest importance, followed by Articulation and Expression. Some gender differences have emerged between the teachers, with the male teachers tending towards a more analytical approach and the female teachers adopting more balanced lesson content. The treatment of students showed some divergence, with greater emphasis on Expression in the lessons of female students, whereas the male students studied more Structure. The results demonstrate stereotypical gender behaviour among the teachers and towards their students not previously observed in this educational setting.
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Papagoras, Harry, Tania Pizzari, Paul Coburn, Kevin Sleigh, and Andrew M. Briggs. "Supporting return to work through appropriate certification: a systematic approach for Australian primary care." Australian Health Review 42, no. 2 (2018): 164. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/ah16247.
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Primary care practitioners play a critical role in supporting return to work (RTW) and minimising the detrimental physical and psychosocial sequelae of unnecessary and prolonged work absence in injured and ill workers. Accurate and consistent certification of capacity is an essential component of this role that has been scrutinised recently given the identified variation in certification practices between and within professions. This Perspective outlines the importance of correct certification of capacity for injured workers and provides a RTW flowchart to support systematised and appropriate certification. The flowchart is aimed at primary care practitioners (e.g. general practitioners or physiotherapists). The flowchart was developed at the Transport Accident Commission and WorkSafe Victoria as a guide for Australian primary care practitioners when certifying capacity. A more systematised approach to certification coupled with professional education and support may reduce variations and inaccuracies in certification, improve RTW rates and reduce the increasing burden of disease related to workplace injuries.
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Klushin, A. V. "Application of Business Games in Training of Employees of Regional Executive Bodies and Local Self-Government Bodies." Administrative Consulting, no. 5 (July 23, 2021): 158–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.22394/1726-1139-2021-5-158-161.
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The author raises the issues of applying innovative approaches in the educational and methodological process of training personnel, whose competence includes the implementation of measures to prevention of terrorism. The article discusses the features of conducting practical exercises in the simulation games form, their part and positive experience in the provision of education organization, and advanced training of employees of the antiterrorism commission apparatus in the constituent entities of the Russian Federation, executive authorities, and local self-government bodies.
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Crowe, B. L., and I. G. Mcdonald. "Telemedicine in Australia. Recent developments." Journal of Telemedicine and Telecare 3, no. 4 (December 1, 1997): 188–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1258/1357633971931147.
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There have been a number of important developments in Australia in the area of telemedicine. At the national level, the House of Representatives' Standing Committee on Family and Community Affairs has been conducting the Inquiry into Health Information Management and Telemedicine. The Australian Health Ministers' Advisory Council has supported the establishment of a working party convened by the South Australian Health Commission to prepare a detailed report on issues relating to telemedicine. State governments have begun a number of telemedicine projects, including major initiatives in New South Wales and Victoria and the extensive development of telepsychiatry services in Queensland. Research activities in high-speed image transmission have been undertaken by the Australian Computing and Communications Institute and Telstra, and by the Australian Navy. The matter of the funding of both capital and recurrent costs of telemedicine services has not been resolved, and issues of security and privacy of medical information are subject to discussion. The use of the Internet as a universal communications medium may provide opportunities for the expansion of telemedicine services, particularly in the area of continuing medical education. A need has been recognized for the coordinated evaluation of telemedicine services as cost-benefit considerations are seen to be very important.
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O'Brien, Grace, and Michelle Trudgett. "School House to Big House." Australian Journal of Indigenous Education 49, no. 1 (August 29, 2018): 98–106. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/jie.2018.13.
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In 1991, the Australian Government released the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody Report. Of the 339 recommendations, Recommendation 62 identified that there was an alarming over-representation of Indigenous youth in contact with the criminal justice system. The report called for immediate action by governments to develop strategies that would urgently reduce retention rates of Indigenous youth within the prison system. Analysis of the literature indicates that almost three decades after the release of this report, the high numbers of Indigenous youth who are incarcerated, or who have come into contact with the juvenile justice system remains the same. Although there is a good deal of literature investigating the criminological characteristics of this phenomena; there is a substantial gap in the literature surrounding the educational exclusion of young Indigenous males from the formal education system. This paper focusses specifically on the literature surrounding student exclusion from state schools and how this may provide some insight into the subsequent over-representation of young Indigenous males within the Queensland juvenile justice system.
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Mantas, J. "Health Informatics Education and Research at the University of Athens." Yearbook of Medical Informatics 07, no. 01 (August 1998): 90–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1055/s-0038-1637890.
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AbstractIn Europe, coordinated activities in healthcare informatics education started in the late 1980s with the establishment of European courses in health telematics. At the same time the European Commission foresaw the need for spreading the knowledge of Information Technology (IT) in the healthcare sector. Therefore the EC, since then, has supported the initiatives that aim to create awareness, stimulate diffusion, and educate and train the users (healthcare professionals) in the application of IT in health care [I] Initiatives, such as the NIGHTINGALE project, are essential for the planning and implementation of strategies for training the nursing profession in using and applying healthcare information systems. Other projects are the IT EDUCTRA project, which is a practical project in the field of education and training of healthcare professionals in information technologies, and the ERASMUS Master’s Course, which aims at giving those working (or intending to work) in the health service and related activities, a broad advanced postgraduate education in health informatics.
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Nasir, Muhammad Suleman, Abdul Majeed, and Muhammad Qayyum Ahsan. "Evaluating the Role of National Commission for Human Development and Primary Education in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan." Utamax : Journal of Ultimate Research and Trends in Education 3, no. 1 (March 27, 2021): 48–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.31849/utamax.v3i1.6156.
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The purpose and aim of the National Commission for Human Development (NCHD) are to develop the opportunity of struggles through Pakistan's government in safeguarding the operative delivery of communal services. The main purpose is to evaluate the role of NCHD in the advancement of the primary level of education in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. The survey type descriptive research methodology was used to attain the objectives of the study. All Government boys’ primary school teachers and NCHD staff members set up the population of this study. The study’s sample was taken from the four randomly chosen districts, i.e., Bannu, Lakk Marwat, Karak, and Dera Ismail Khan of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. The data was collected from 200 teachers and 100 staff members from NCHD staff from the particular districts through a questionnaire using a simple random sampling technique. Data were examined using Mean, Standard Deviation, and t-test was used to examine the data. It is inferred that the NCHD was playing its active role in increasing enrollment and in reducing the dropout in the schools at the primary level. It was also concluded that advanced plans of NCHD are meaningfully promoting primary education in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. This study recommends that NCHD should organize extra training workshops and talks for teachers at the primary level concerning the student’s assessment for better education and to make them updated and skilled.
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Gibson, Robert W. "Elaine Evans and Roger Juchau Colleges of advanced education in Australia — a lasting legacy: A history of accounting education in Australian colleges of advanced education. Lightning Source Inc, 2009, ISBN: 978—3—639—14548—9." Accounting History 16, no. 1 (February 2011): 125–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1032373210353427.
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Thwaite, Anne. "Inclusive and Empowering Discourse in an Early Childhood Literacy Classroom with Indigenous Students." Australian Journal of Indigenous Education 36, no. 1 (2007): 21–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1326011100004385.
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AbstractThis paper presents an analysis of the classroom discourse and strategies of Marcia, an early childhood teacher of a class with a high percentage of Indigenous Australian students. These students have been demonstrably successful on standardised literacy tests, which is not the case for Indigenous students in general in Australia (e.g., MCEETYA, 200). It will be suggested here that Marcia’s approach and relationships with the students, as constructed in her discourse, have been a large contributing factor in this success. Marcia’s discourse can be described as both inclusive and empowering and, as such, it will be proposed that awareness of her techniques may be of benefit to teachers who are working with groups whom education systems tend to marginalise and disempower. Marcia’s lessons were observed as part of the project, “Teaching Indigenous Students with Conductive Hearing Loss in Remote and Urban Schools of Western Australia”. This project was based in Kurongkurl Katitjin, School of Indigenous Studies, at Edith Cowan University, Perth, Western Australia, and was funded by an Australian Research Council Strategic Partnerships with Industry [SPIRT] Grant and the industry partners: Department of Education of Western Australia, Catholic Education Commission of Western Australia and Aboriginal Independent Community Schools, Western Australia.
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Papagoras, Harry, Tania Pizzari, Paul Coburn, Kevin Sleigh, and Andrew M. Briggs. "Corrigendum to: Supporting return to work through appropriate certification: a systematic approach for Australian primary care." Australian Health Review 42, no. 2 (2018): 239. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/ah16247_co.
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Primary care practitioners play a critical role in supporting return to work (RTW) and minimising the detrimental physical and psychosocial sequelae of unnecessary and prolonged work absence in injured and ill workers. Accurate and consistent certification of capacity is an essential component of this role that has been scrutinised recently given the identified variation in certification practices between and within professions. This Perspective outlines the importance of correct certification of capacity for injured workers and provides a RTW flowchart to support systematised and appropriate certification. The flowchart is aimed at primary care practitioners (e.g. general practitioners or physiotherapists). The flowchart was developed at the Transport Accident Commission and WorkSafe Victoria as a guide for Australian primary care practitioners when certifying capacity. A more systematised approach to certification coupled with professional education and support may reduce variations and inaccuracies in certification, improve RTW rates and reduce the increasing burden of disease related to workplace injuries.
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Churyk, Natalie Tatiana, Alan Reinstein, and Lance Smith. "Jones Enterprises Real Estate Investment Trust: Comparing U.S. and Canadian Acquisition Accounting, Balance Sheet and Security Commission Reporting, and Initial Public Offering Location." Issues in Accounting Education 33, no. 2 (February 1, 2018): 35–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.2308/iace-52043.
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ABSTRACT Based on a Big 4 real estate audit partner's client, this case introduces graduate research and advanced financial accounting students to acquisition accounting under U.S. generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) and International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS), provides a perspective on real estate investment trusts (REITs), and requires analyzing a U.S. versus Canadian (Ontario) initial public offering (IPO). Students list U.S. and Canadian advantages and disadvantages of REITs, record a portfolio purchase, prepare U.S. GAAP and IFRS balance sheets in order to grasp major REIT reporting differences, contrast the key provisions between U.S. and Canadian (Ontario) securities commissions' IPO reporting, and consider ongoing securities commissions' reporting options. Finally, students will recommend whether the IPO should be issued in the U.S. or Canada. Completing the case helps students: (1) grasp U.S. GAAP and IFRS acquisition accounting methods and different REIT presentations; and (2) recognize that the country selected for the IPO depends upon the issuer's circumstances and preferences.
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Collopy, Brian T. "Introducing Health System Change Strategies to Policy Makers." International Journal of Reliable and Quality E-Healthcare 3, no. 2 (April 2014): 1–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/ijrqeh.2014040101.
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In a world first, for accreditation programs, Clinical Indicators (clinical performance measures) were introduced into the Australian Council on Healthcare Standards (ACHS) accreditation process 21 years ago. The resulting national clinical database now receives data from over 740 health care organisations (HCOs) on 22 indicator sets, for different medical disciplines, containing almost 400 separate indicators. HCOs receive aggregate and peer comparative feedback and the types of action by HCOs in response to their results include further data reviews, policy/procedure changes, education programs, new appointments and equipment changes. Favourable data trends in patient care are evident and, with some indicators, cost avoidance can be demonstrated. Revision of the indicator sets is an essential task to ensure continued relevance to clinicians. The Federal Government response to a study in which patient care in Australian hospitals was, prematurely, judged to compare poorly with care in the USA (and later the UK) resulted in the establishment of The Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care which has now embarked upon a separate program of hospital-based outcome indicators, as have other health care providers. Advice is provided from the literature and personal experience on issues of presentation of material to health care policy makers.
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Kaufman, Keith L., Marcus Erooga, Benjamin Mathews, and Erin McConnell. "Recommendations for Preventing Child Sexual Abuse in Youth-Serving Organizations: Implications From an Australian Royal Commission Review of the Literature." Journal of Interpersonal Violence 34, no. 20 (September 5, 2019): 4199–224. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0886260519869239.
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Evidence suggests that tens of millions of children and adolescents are involved in youth-serving organizations (YSOs) outside of their homes on a daily basis. Children’s involvement with YSOs clearly offers a broad array of emotional, social, and personal development benefits. This involvement can, however, also be associated with a variety of safety risks, including the potential for child sexual abuse (CSA) victimization and the myriad short- and long-term consequences to its victims and their families. Recognizing the significance of CSA within YSOs, the Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse funded a comprehensive review of the literature on risk and protective factors related to CSA in institutions. This yielded more than 400 primarily research articles from the United States, United Kingdom, and Australia, examining institutional CSA victims, perpetrators, and settings. Findings were provided regarding six specific types of institutional settings, including faith-based, early childhood education, childcare and schools, health care, out-of-home/foster care, and sport. This article is based on the findings of Kaufman and Erooga’s comprehensive literature review and Royal Commission findings. It provides a brief review of critical risks associated with CSA victims, perpetrators, and organizational settings, as well as highlights risks particular to specific types of YSOs and risks that are present across these organizations. Optimal prevention directions and strategies are outlined in response to identified patterns of organizational risk. Recommendations for YSO policy enhancements are also provided to complement the article’s prevention focus. Finally, suggestions are offered for future research directions to foster the development of an evidence-based foundation for work in this area.
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Pazmino, Mario Fabricio Ayala. "Service-learning Education Improvement for Foreign Language Learners." Journal of Language Teaching and Research 10, no. 6 (November 1, 2019): 1173. http://dx.doi.org/10.17507/jltr.1006.05.
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The problem addressed in this study was the decreasing rate of enrolment in foreign language programs by Australian university students. A mixed-methods research methodology was used, with the quantitative data collected through tests conducted on participants and the qualitative data collected through semi-structured interviews. The sample consisted of 62 students enrolled in a Spanish foreign language program at a university in Melbourne. The student participants were divided into two groups: a control group, which had 31 students, and an experimental Service-Learning (SL) group, which also had 31 students. The students were also divided into two groups according to academic level: intermediate and advanced. Each group completed three academic tests: listening, oral and language use, reading and writing, both pre- and post-intervention. Findings were that oral language proficiency increased for students that had taken the SL program. They showed no significant increase in listening, reading, and writing. These effects did not differ significantly by level of academic achievement.
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Blackmore, Conner, Kathryn Hird, and Ryan S. Anderton. "An Investigation of Secondary School STEM Subjects as Predictors of Academic Performance in Tertiary Level Health Sciences Programs." International Journal of Higher Education 10, no. 1 (September 23, 2020): 76. http://dx.doi.org/10.5430/ijhe.v10n1p76.
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Tertiary institutions are experiencing an increased number of enrolments, with students varying in their demographics, previous education, and academic achievement. This relative increase in undergraduate enrolments in Australia has not translated to an increase in student retention or graduate numbers. This prompts the need to explore predictors of academic performance for tertiary students to identify those most at risk of underperforming. This study aimed to investigate the relationship between secondary school subject completion and undergraduate grade point average (GPA). A cohort of 709 secondary school students entering undergraduate health science courses between 2012 and 2015 at an Australian university were investigated. Completion of Mathematics 3C3D, Physics, Chemistry and Physical Education Australian Tertiary Admission Rank (ATAR) subjects were significantly associated with GPA. In a subset of 458 students, longitudinal analysis revealed completion of secondary school Mathematics 3C3D was a significant predictor of academic performance over the duration of the tertiary health science courses. The results suggest that completion of advanced secondary school mathematics, but not physical sciences, is predictive of student achievement. This outcome further supports the need for improved uptake and completion of advanced mathematics in secondary school.
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Burge, John. "AASE – The Second Decade. A View of some Challenges Facing Special Education." Australasian Journal of Special Education 10, no. 2 (November 1986): 25–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1030011200021606.
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Following the inaugural meeting of the Australian Association of Special Education in 1975, the initial constitution was adopted in September 1976 at the first national conference, held in Brisbane. This federation of state special education teacher groups was a response to a wide range of social, economic, political and philosophical issues which had been evident from the early seventies.The formation of a national special education association was in fact a fairly slow reaction to a growing need for a national perspective. As early as 1971 a Senate Standing Committee had asserted the right of all children to an education program irrespective of degree of handicap. In 1973 the Karmel Committee had again raised the issues relating to a national perspective on special education, including importing philosophical perspectives which were then picked up by a number of Schools Commission working parties which were the result of the Karmel Report. It was from these sorts of national activities, and in some instances from individuals involved in such activities, that the impetus to form a national special education association emerged. It is interesting, and pertinent to today’s analysis, that philosophical issues were the key to those early national meetings.The dilemma for any group or individual attempting to find or adopt a national viewpoint for special education in Australia is to unravel the confusion and diversity which arises from the manner in which education is provided in this country.
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StJohn, David H. "Overview of CAST and Australian Magnesium Research." Materials Science Forum 546-549 (May 2007): 49–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/msf.546-549.49.
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The CAST Cooperative Research Centre was established in 1993 as a joint venture between industry, research and government partners to carry out research and development in the area of light metals. Over the thirteen years since its formation CAST has developed a world class research program and, in addition to the significant application of outcomes by our industry partners, much of our research is being commercialised. In addition, CAST has developed a significant education and training program, a best practice technology transfer program for small and medium enterprises, consulting and design activities and established an alliance with Advanced Magnesium Technologies as a provider of their research and development needs. The development of CAST has been achieved by cooperation between all our partners who represent most of the light metals research groups and a significant proportion of light metals industries in Australia. The close involvement of the industry partners in all aspects of the operation of CAST has ensured we have a program of activities focused on delivering benefits to Australia’s light metals industry. This paper presents an overview of the magnesium research undertaken by CAST and other research groups such as the Centre of Excellence in Design of Light Metals and the CSIRO including their Light Metals Flagship program. Some highlights are new magnesium powertrain alloys, an alloy suitable for decorative and domestic applications called AM-lite, and new CSIRO casting technologies T-Mag and a twin roll strip casting process.
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Not Available, Not Available. "EC - European Commission ERPET - European Radiation Protection Education and Training Advanced Training Course for Medical Physicists on Physics of Medical X-ray Imaging." Radiation and Environmental Biophysics 37, no. 4 (December 1, 1998): 234. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s004110050123.
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Reser, David, Margaret Simmons, Esther Johns, Andrew Ghaly, Michelle Quayle, Aimee L. Dordevic, Marianne Tare, Adelle McArdle, Julie Willems, and Tyson Yunkaporta. "Australian Aboriginal techniques for memorization: Translation into a medical and allied health education setting." PLOS ONE 16, no. 5 (May 18, 2021): e0251710. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0251710.
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Background Writing and digital storage have largely replaced organic memory for encoding and retrieval of information in the modern era, with a corresponding decrease in emphasis on memorization in Western education. In health professional training, however, there remains a large corpus of information for which memorization is the most efficient means of ensuring: A) that the trainee has the required information readily available; and B) that a foundation of knowledge is laid, upon which the medical trainee builds multiple, complex layers of detailed information during advanced training. The carefully staged progression in early- to late- years’ medical training from broad concepts (e.g. gross anatomy and pharmacology) to in-depth, specialised disciplinary knowledge (e.g. surgical interventions and follow-on care post-operatively) has clear parallels to the progression of training and knowledge exposure that Australian Aboriginal youths undergo in their progression from childhood to adulthood to Tribal Elders. Methods As part of the Rural Health curriculum and the undergraduate Nutrition and Dietetics program in the Monash University Faculty of Medicine, Nursing, and Health Sciences, we tested Australian Aboriginal techniques of memorization for acquisition and recall of novel word lists by first-year medical students (N = 76). We also examined undergraduate student evaluations (N = 49) of the use of the Australian Aboriginal memory technique for classroom study of foundational biomedical knowledge (the tricarboxylic acid cycle) using qualitative and quantitative analytic methods drawing from Bloom’s taxonomy for orders of thinking and learning. Acquisition and recall of word lists were assessed without memory training, or after training in either the memory palace technique or the Australian Aboriginal narrative technique. Results Both types of memory training improved the number of correctly recalled items and reduced the frequency of specific error types relative to untrained performance. The Australian Aboriginal method resulted in approximately a 3-fold greater probability of improvement to accurate recall of the entire word list (odds ratio = 2.82; 95% c.i. = 1.15–6.90), vs. the memory palace technique (odds ratio = 2.03; 95% c.i. = 0.81–5.06) or no training (odds ratio = 1.5; 95% c.i. = 0.54–4.59) among students who did not correctly recall all list items at baseline. Student responses to learning the Australian Aboriginal memory technique in the context of biomedical science education were overwhelmingly favourable, and students found both the training and the technique enjoyable, interesting, and more useful than rote memorization. Our data indicate that this method has genuine utility and efficacy for study of biomedical sciences and in the foundation years of medical training.
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Riley, Tasha. "Exceeding Expectations: Teachers’ Decision Making Regarding Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Students." Journal of Teacher Education 70, no. 5 (October 20, 2018): 512–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0022487118806484.
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Although Indigenous and non-Indigenous teachers, administrators, and educational policy makers have made efforts to improve Indigenous educational outcomes, slow progress limits the opportunities available to Indigenous learners and perpetuates social and economic disadvantage. Prior Canadian studies demonstrate that some teachers attribute low ability and adverse life circumstances to Indigenous students, possibly influencing classroom placement. These findings were the catalyst for an Australian-based study assessing the influence students’ Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander status had upon teachers’ placement decisions. Teachers allocated fictional students to supplementary, regular, or advanced programs. Study findings revealed that teachers’ decisions were based upon assumptions regarding the perceived ability, family background, and/or life circumstances of Indigenous learners. The research tool designed for this study provides a way for teachers to identify the implications of biases on decision making, making it a valuable resource for teacher educators engaging in equity work with preservice teachers.
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Wright, Bob. "Number Topics in Early Childhood Mathematics Curricula: Historical Background, Dilemmas, and Possible Solutions." Australian Journal of Education 36, no. 2 (August 1992): 125–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/000494419203600202.
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During the last 30 years, British and United States factors have strongly influenced number topics in early childhood mathematics curricula: e.g. (a) Cuisenaire, which de-emphasised children's counting; (b) Piaget's theories, still a dominant influence on prenumber and early number; (c) the back-to-basics movement in the United States which continues to influence introductory topics on arithmetical operations; and (d) the re-emphasis on counting. As a result, dominant text series and, to some extent, new curricula are out of touch with current research, and there is an urgent need to review current practice. A recently developed model of young children's numerical development is advanced as a possible basis for such a review. Other relevant research is summarised, including two studies which concluded that, typically, children in the first year of school are under-challenged. The article concludes with recommendations for future Australian research and development in early childhood mathematics.