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The following letter was submitted for possible publication in The Australian of Monday 31 August 2015 but it did not make it into print.
Independent public schools and teaching quality
West Australian Education Minister Peter Collier is reported as claiming that his state's system of independent public schools "is improving the calibre of teachers" (Inquirer, "Head or heart what makes a good teacher", Aug 29-30).
This is surely nonsense. Whether teachers are employed centrally by the state department or by individual schools can have no impact on the overall quality of the available teacher workforce. It will just deploy it in different ways. The most likely result is that existing relative advantage and disadvantage will both be increased.
Collier's comment seems like another example, sadly all too common in public debate about schooling, of ideology trumping logic and evidence.
 "Garry Collins, ETAQ Immediate Past President")
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This is the first time I have been to an ETAQ conference and it was really sensational to get so much at all of the sessions.
ETAQ conferences always have sessions that make me excited to be a teacher.
I know that ETAQ conferences in the past have never disappointed - valuable, relevant, practical, inspiring so I came again.
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