Worker participation is not on the ALP’s Fair Work Australian agenda. But worker participation is debated in Europe. “The type of labour needed by European companies – skilled, mobile, committed, responsible, and capable of using technical innovations and of identifying with the objective of increasing competitiveness and quality – cannot be expected simply to obey [...]
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Why My School fails the test
Why My School fails the test by JEREMY LUDOWYKE WITHIN a few hours of the My School website overcoming its quizzical technical teething problems, the grey gnomes of at least one media empire drew forth from its feverish burrowing that great false grail of accountability, state league tables. Melbourne High School, one of our nation’s [...]
Gulf Troubled Waters Community Forum
”Gulf Troubled Waters Community Forum” Sunday 7th March 2010 Cove Sports & Community Club (Club Cove) Oval Road Hallett Cove SA “Gulf Troubled Waters” Forum provides the community a unique opportunity to understand a broad spectrum of environmental issues associated with Gulf St Vincent through the eyes of the Mid-South Coast. Never before has the [...]
School comparison flawed
Call for Inquiry into Bias Against Govt. Schools on My School A study published today by Save Our Schools, a public education advocacy group, calls for a full independent public inquiry into ‘like school’ comparisons on the My School website. SOS spokesman, Trevor Cobbold, said that the comparisons are biased against government schools and littered [...]
Valery’s bus
Peter Botsman and Valery’s Bus. On ABC Radio National report today. http://www.abc.net.au/rural/telegraph/content/2010/s2814344.htm ‘I want to leave something behind, something special for them.’ ‘I would like to have an arts and crafts workshop where all kinds of people, especially children can learn and create Aboriginal art. That is my dreaming, that is my dream.’ Gayili Marika [...]
Repression of Columbian
AUSTRALIAN POLICE THREATEN COLOMBIAN UNION CAMPAIGN Rob Durbridge President, SEARCH Foundation Recently I was a witness to an interview by the Australian Federal Police of Alejandro Rodriguez, a young Argentine-Australian engineer and union member. Alejandro is a friend who is involved in a campaign to raise awareness about the repression of trade unionists and peasants [...]
Ecological revolution
Why Ecological Revolution? John Bellamy Foster It is now universally recognized within science that humanity is confronting the prospect — if we do not soon change course — of a planetary ecological collapse. Not only is the global ecological crisis becoming more and more severe, with the time in which to address it fast running [...]
AEU on My School
AEU To all ALP Federal Members of Parliament Re: League Tables – My School Website The AEU supports the Government’s objective aimed at providing more information about school effectiveness to parents. However, the policy in its current form, which also facilitates the creation and publication of league tables, will do more harm than good. Within [...]
School results hypocrisy
My School Comparisons Expose Hypocrisy of PM and Gillard The Save Our Schools public education advocacy group today accused the Prime Minister and the Federal Education Minister of hypocrisy and duplicity about reporting school results. SOS national convenor, Trevor Cobbold, said they have broken each of their three key promises about publishing school results. “The [...]
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