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School's out all summer

By Ian Keese - posted Thursday, 17 May 2007


With only six months before nominations for participants to the Summer School are to be called there are many unanswered questions. It is, for example, going to be interesting to see who are given the lucrative contracts to run these summer schools.

Perhaps a reasonable option would be a coalition of university Education Faculties, but if only one university is chosen, how far will that particular institution have to swallow Coalition ideology to get their pieces of silver? What role, if any, are teacher’s professional associations to play in this? How far will the course recognise that teachers are adult learners par excellence and that they will want to play a dominant role in what happens? What will teachers know about the course before they apply?

And finally the expense of the project is mind boggling. The $5,000 offered to individual teachers is nothing compared with the expense of bringing people from all over Australia, ten days of food and accommodation and the cost of contracting out the course.

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On the government figures, over four years, $20 million will go to the individual teachers and $81 million will be eaten up in expenses. Is this an economically responsible government? However, the travel industry is sure to be very pleased with it.

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Ian Keese has degrees in Science and the Arts. He has been a secondary school history teacher and is a Fellow of the Australian College of Educators. He lives in Melbourne and writes on history and education or anything else in which he becomes interested. www.iankeese.com.au

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