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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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Structuring Analytical Responses - Syll Obj 4Grace Loyden, Head of Faculty - English at Townsville Grammar School will present a workshop on Saturday 27th July 2019 to address Structuring Analytical Responses to Explicitly Demonstrate Syllabus Onjective 4 from 9am to 12:00 pm. This event will be held in the PR Rowland Memorial Library, Bourke Street, North Ward. ... |
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State Conference 2019State Conference will be held on 17th August 2019 at Lourdes Hill College,Hawthorne Road, Hawthorne. Bronwyn Lea, UQ will present a keynote address on the value of poetry in the new curriculum landscape. Dr Claire Hansen from JCU will present the second keynote entitled 'Complexifying' Shakespeare: reinvigorating our te... |
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Grammar Day 2019ETAQ will be condudcting another of the very successful grammar days on Saturday 9th November at Iona College, Wynnum. Download the flyer for further information. Registrations will open on Monday 30 September and close on Monday 28 October 2019. ... |
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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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