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The following letter was submitted to The Australian for possible inclusion in the edition of Monday 21 September 2015 but it was not selected for publication. It seems that a regular theme of reporting on education in this and some other papers is that schools are constantly drifting away from "the basics" and need to return to them. I suspect it must be the alliteration in "back to basics" that they find so alluring.
Schools going back to basics?
If, as your front page headline proclaims, the nation's schools really are going back to basics, perhaps we can help balance governmental budgets by abolishing secondary schools entirely ("Phonics, coding and faith as nation's schools go back to basics", Sep 19-20)?
Wherever do you find the sub-editors who come up with such journalistic gems?
 "Garry Collins, ETAQ Immediate Past President")
Author: Garry Collins, ETAQ Immediate Past President
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March Seminar 2021: Challenge and Change: Doing things differentlyWe are delighted to announce that we will be back with face to face professional learing events in 2021 - usual format but wtih some important changes: the March Seminar will be a full day event; the AATE-ALEA National Conference will be held in Brisbane in July and consequently there will not be a state conference. Other events for the year ... |
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State Conference 2020: Diving DeepWith a heavy heart we announce that due to Covid-19 restrictions, the State Conference will not he held this year.
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I know that ETAQ conferences in the past have never disappointed - valuable, relevant, practical, inspiring so I came again.
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