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• Enrolment trends - a success story worth telling
  16 February 2012 - 12:13pm - Dr Geoff Newcombe
    On 3rd February the Australian Bureau of Statistics released its preliminary Schools Australia 2012 data, a key source of accurate and verifiable data on Australian schooling. But you may not have  read more >>
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• Quality Teaching - Creating A New Standard
  09 February 2012 - 10:00am - Dr Geoff Newcombe
    The term ‘quality teaching’ is often heard but identifying what it actually means can be somewhat difficult.  It may mean very different things to different people.  Just this week the ABC’s Four  read more >>
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• Funding students with a disability - a disabled system?
  02 February 2012 - 2:18pm - Dr Geoff Newcombe
    As we commence a new school year, there remains one issue that never seems to be resolved.  That’s the debate about the funding of students with disability so that those going to non-government  read more >>
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• Gonski and funding - Out With the Old?
  25 January 2012 - 10:36am - Dr Geoff Newcombe
    In her address to the Annual General Meeting of the Association of Independent Schools of NSW in May 2008, the then Minister for Education, Julia Gillard, outlined her educational reform  read more >>
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• Welcome to the AIS Blog
  23 January 2012 - 3:28pm - Dr Geoff Newcombe
  School education arouses passions, invokes ideologies and frequently causes disagreement. However, the topic of education also highlights significant common ground, creates collaboration and opens up  read more >>
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