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Leading for Quality in Western Australian Early Childhood Services: An Emerging Framework
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Cross, Emma; Dobson, Madeleine; Walker, Rebecca; Lowe, Geoff – Issues in Educational Research, 2022
All Australian children and their families have an equal right to access quality early years education. To achieve this, rationalisation of the Australian early childhood (EC) sector in 2007 saw the introduction of mandated governing frameworks, including the National Quality Framework (NQF), designed to regulate and assure quality practices…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Early Childhood Education, Educational Practices, Foreign Countries
Professional Development Programmes for Teachers in the Northern Territory of Australia: Enablers and Inhibiters for Success in Two Aspirant Leadership Programmes
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Speering, Glen – Professional Development in Education, 2016
Professional development programmes for teachers have become an increasing focus in the quest to improve teacher quality. In regional and remote areas of Australia the delivery of professional development programmes can become problematic. This study compares and contrasts the two separate professional development programmes evaluated (Programme A…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Instructional Leadership, Rural Areas, Geographic Regions
Educational Program and Practice: An Analysis of Quality Area 1 of the National Quality Standard. Occasional Paper 1
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Australian Children's Education and Care Quality Authority, 2016
This occasional paper is the first in a series on the National Quality Framework (NQF). This paper offers detailed insights into education and care service quality ratings for Quality Area 1 -- Educational Program and Practice, which focuses on ensuring that educational program and practice is stimulating and engaging, enhances children's learning…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, National Standards, Child Care, Early Childhood Education
Managing Projects for Change: Contextualised Project Management
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Tynan, Belinda; Adlington, Rachael; Stewart, Cherry; Vale, Deborah; Sims, Rod; Shanahan, Peter – Journal of Distance Education, 2010
This paper will detail three projects which focussed on enhancing online learning at a large Australian distance education University within a School of Business, School of Health and School of Education. Each project had special funding and took quite distinctive project management approaches, which reflect the desire to embed innovation and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Electronic Learning, Instructional Design, Distance Education
Study Leave in Universities and Colleges of Advanced Education [and] Draft Report on Study Leave.
Australian Tertiary Education Commission, Canberra. – 1978
A study on the system of study leave that exists in Australian universities and colleges of advanced education was conducted by the Tertiary Education Commission. A draft report, which is appended, was issued in May 1978 and public comment was invited on the report. The comments that were received on the draft report are summarized, and the…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Faculty Development, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
The Evaluation of Staff Development in Technical and Further Education. A Proposed Methodology.
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Fordham, Adrian; Ainley, John – 1980
This report deals with the development of a methodology with which Australian TAFE (Technical and Further Education) authorities, institutions, and staff could evaluate staff development programs and activities. It focuses on two programs that reflect the diversity in program organization and major emphases adopted--South Australian Department of…
Descriptors: Adult Education, College Faculty, Colleges, Data Analysis