4 January 2016

Enjoy browsing in your holidays. There are some exciting additions from us this year. Stay tuned...

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1 January 2016

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25 December 2015

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23 December 2015

Teachers on 11 month contracts, academics employed sessionally in 12 week blocks - this is the future ( which is  here but not 100% yet) of the "innovation agenda".  in fact, many middle class salary earners will lose any sense of financial security. How do you buy a house or car under those circumstances? It's being called "the uberfication of work" with everyone being shifted to piecework.

Is Malcom Turnbull's  innovation agenda another way of undermining the middle class? What will that do to our society?

Read this very informative but disturbing artlcle in The Guardian

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22 December 2015

A timely report from the OECD shows the gap between children of immigrants and those of their peers, is closing. This is an important finding in the light of all the Syrian children about to enter OECD education systems. They also found that children of immigrants performed better if they were in schools without streaming.

I found it surprising that England, Austria, Germany and the Netherlands have streaming entrenched in their schooling systems. We had that debate in education here many years ago and decided unstreamed classes were best for all. (Ed)

Read the whole article here

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19 December 2015

That's it for schools until 2016. Have a great break everyone!!

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16 December 2015

Hang in there teachers in Vic, WA, ACT and Tas! Lots of planning happening. Bookings for 2016 are really moving. Book your event now to get the dates you want. Enjoy your last day NSW schools!

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15 December 2015

Good luck to all.

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14 December 2015

The rest of Australia will be joining SA, Qld and NT on Christmas holidays this week. Yippee.

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8 December 2015

Not long to go now, everyone else finishing next week.

Here's our favourite holiday image. 

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3 December 2015

Last enews for the year. Thanks to all our wonderful subscribers and presenters. Want a copy? Write to us at info@showsfor schools.com.au or simply subscribe here.

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1 December 2015

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