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Friday, August 29, 2008

Submissions and briefings

The Australian Council of Deans of Education releases papers and advice to members periodically. These papers are designed to further debate and discuss key areas of education and keep members informed.

Publication Name
2008
Submission Submission to the Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA) Initiative (doc 167Kb)
Submission ACDE submission to to the Inquiry into Research Training and Research Workforce Issues in Australian Universities (doc 105Kb)
Preliminary input Draft ACDE input to Higher Education Review (doc 97Kb)
Meeting minutes Meeting with the Hon Julia Gillard MP, Deputy Prime Minister (doc 49Kb)
Briefing paper Briefing paper 1 - National accreditation of teacher education (doc 46Kb)
Briefing paper Briefing paper 3 - Teacher education as a national priority: Funding implications (doc 47Kb)
Briefing paper Briefing paper 4 - The placement fund (doc 46Kb)
Briefing paper Briefing paper 5 - Educational research (doc 53Kb)
HoR report The House of Representatives report of Inquiry into Teacher Education was tabled Monday 26 February 2008.
Full report (3.5M)
List of recommendations and executive summary (295Kb)
Media release (36Kb)
2006-2007
Briefing paper 2007-8 ACDE budget briefing (pdf 49Kb) - The ACDE has analysed the 2007-8 budget and the news is not good for teacher education or for the field of Education generally. None of the House of Representative Recommendations with budget implications have been taken up and, relative to the sector as a whole, the field of Education's funding position continues the decline which begun with HESA (2003).
Briefing paper Placement fund - May 2007 for 2008 (doc 41Kb)
Response ACDE accreditation response - 11 July 2007 (doc 78Kb)
AFTRAA proposal The Australasian Forum of Teacher Registration and Accreditation Authorities (AFTRAA) have released The Framework for the National Recognition of Approved Pre-Service Teacher Education Programs (pdf 79Kb) for consultation.
TA proposal Teaching Australia (TA) is conducting consultations on its proposals for national accreditation of teacher education programs, Australia-wide accreditation of programs for the professional preparation of teachers. ACDE will meet with them in the last week in February.
Submission Submission (1.1Mb) to the Review of the Higher Education Support Act 2003.
2005
Submission House of Representatives Inquiry into Teacher Education ACDE submission titled “Teaching Tomorrow’s Teachers” (207Kb)
Response Research Quality Framework (349Kb) - ACDE’s response to the DEST issue paper
2004
Submission  
Submission Teaching and Teacher Education (305Kb) – Pre-service inquiry ACDE’s submission to the Victorian Education & Training Committee Inquiry
Submission National Inquiry into the Teaching of Literacy 2004 (61Kb)
Submission National Institute for Quality Teaching & School Leadership (47Kb)
2002
Submission Teacher Education Reviews 1 (626Kb) - overview of key issues 2 - innovation in schools
Review Commonwealth Languages Other Than English (LOTE) (407Kb) - ACDE calls for a renewed national policy on languages in its submission to DEST
Review Higher Education at the Crossroads: A review of Australian Higher Education (407Kb)
2001
Submission Australian Senate Public Universities Inquiry 2001 (107Kb)