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New South Wales Department Of Education
The New South Wales Department of Education, a government department, department of the Government of New South Wales, is responsible for the delivery and co-ordination of early childhood education, early childhood, Primary education, primary school, secondary education, secondary school, vocational education, adult, migrant and higher education, higher education in the state of New South Wales, Australia. The department was preceded by the Board of National Education and Council of Education, and has been formerly known by a number of names, including Department of Public Instruction, the Department of Education and Training (DET) between December 1997 and April 2011, and the Department of Education and Communities (DEC) between April 2011 and July 2015. The department's powers are principally drawn from the . History In 1889 the NSW Government took control of the Board of Technical Education, which was then governed by the Technical Education Branch of the Department of Publi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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New South Wales (commonly abbreviated as NSW) is a state on the east coast of :Australia. It borders Queensland to the north, Victoria to the south, and South Australia to the west. Its coast borders the Coral and Tasman Seas to the east. The Australian Capital Territory and Jervis Bay Territory are enclaves within the state. New South Wales' state capital is Sydney, which is also Australia's most populous city. , the population of New South Wales was over 8.3 million, making it Australia's most populous state. Almost two-thirds of the state's population, 5.3 million, live in the Greater Sydney area. The Colony of New South Wales was founded as a British penal colony in 1788. It originally comprised more than half of the Australian mainland with its western boundary set at 129th meridian east in 1825. The colony then also included the island territories of Van Diemen's Land, Lord Howe Island, and Norfolk Island. During the 19th century, Territorial evolution of Aus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
TAFE NSW
TAFE NSW is an Australian vocational education and training provider. Annually, the network trains over 500,000 students in campus, workplace, online, or distance education methods of education. It was established as an independent statutory body under the TAFE Commission Act 1990. The Minister for Regional Development, Skills and Small Business is responsible for TAFE NSW. TAFE NSW awards qualifications as specified in the Australian Qualifications Framework (AQF), and accredited to the Vocational Education and training (VET). Diploma and Advanced Diploma qualifications awarded may be attributed as partial credit towards bachelor's degree-level studies in some universities. History TAFE NSW has existed for over 130 years aiming to upskill the workforce of New South Wales. Demand for vocational education suffered during the early years of the Depression until a decision to expand training services was made to help decrease high unemployment rates by the mid 1930s. Growth also ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Department Of Education Building
The Department of Education building is a heritage register, heritage-listed Government of New South Wales, state government administrative building of the Australian non-residential architectural styles#Edwardian Baroque, Edwardian Baroque architectural style located in Bridge Street, Sydney, Bridge Street in the Sydney central business district in the City of Sydney local government area of New South Wales, Australia. The large public building was designed by New South Wales Government Architect, Colonial Architect George McRae and built in two stages, the first completed in 1912, with John Reid and Son completing the second stage in 1938. It is also known as the Department of Education Building and the Education Building. The property was added to the New South Wales State Heritage Register on 2 April 1999. The building has been occupied by the Department of Education (New South Wales), Department of Education since its establishment, previously known as the Department of Pu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Government Schools In New South Wales
A list is a set of discrete items of information collected and set forth in some format for utility, entertainment, or other purposes. A list may be memorialized in any number of ways, including existing only in the mind of the list-maker, but lists are frequently written down on paper, or maintained electronically. Lists are "most frequently a tool", and "one does not ''read'' but only ''uses'' a list: one looks up the relevant information in it, but usually does not need to deal with it as a whole".Lucie Doležalová,The Potential and Limitations of Studying Lists, in Lucie Doležalová, ed., ''The Charm of a List: From the Sumerians to Computerised Data Processing'' (2009). Purpose It has been observed that, with a few exceptions, "the scholarship on lists remains fragmented". David Wallechinsky, a co-author of '' The Book of Lists'', described the attraction of lists as being "because we live in an era of overstimulation, especially in terms of information, and lists help us ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Scott (businessman)
Mark Walter Scott (born 9 October 1962) is an Australian and American public servant and academic administrator who serves as the Vice-Chancellor and Principal of the University of Sydney. Scott had previously held a senior role at Fairfax Media, responsible for the editorial content of the group's major newspapers, including ''The Sydney Morning Herald'', ''The Age'', ''The Sun-Herald'' and '' The Sunday Age''. He was the managing director of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation from 2006 to 2016. In June 2016, Scott was appointed Secretary of the New South Wales Department of Education. Personal life Scott was born on 9 October 1962 in Los Angeles. He holds dual Australian and United States citizenship. He is a grandson of Sir Walter Scott AC, who was responsible for the introduction of decimal currency in Australia. His father Brian reviewed the NSW Department of Education in the 1980s. He attended Knox Grammar School in Wahroonga, New South Wales. Scott holds a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michele Bruniges
Michele Denise Bruniges is an Australian teacher and education administrator. In April 2016 she began her role as secretary of the Australian Government Department of Education and Training. Bruniges has a doctorate of philosophy in educational measurement, a master's degree in education from the University of New South Wales, a graduate diploma in educational studies and a diploma in teaching from the Goulburn College of Advanced Education. Career Bruniges began her teaching career in 1980 at Leppington Public School prior to becoming a high school teacher of mathematics and computing at St Johns Park High School and Ingleburn High School. She also taught in TAFE NSW and the Adult Migrant Education Service. From 2005 to 2008 Bruniges was chief executive of the ACT Department of Education and Training. She held various federal positions with the Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations (DEEWR), including deputy secretary for the Office of Early Childhood ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Coutts-Trotter
Michael Coutts-Trotter is an Australian public servant who is the current Secretary of the New South Wales Treasury. He was previously the Secretaries of the New South Wales Department of Premier and Cabinet, Department of Communities and Justice, the director-generals of the Department of Education and Department of Finance and Services. Coutts-Trotter served almost three years of a nine-year prison sentence after being convicted for the importation and distribution of heroin into Australia in 1986. Early life Coutts-Trotter was born in Poole Maternity Hospital England in 1965 and arrived in Australia in 1976 with his parents who were married in 1975. His father Paul was the son of Sir Murray Coutts-Trotter, former chief Justice of Madras, while his mother Helen was from Cootamundra. Coutts-Trotter matriculated from Saint Ignatius' College, Riverview. In 1986, he received a nine-year prison sentence as a drug dealer selling heroin to addicts. He served two years and nine mon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harold Wyndham
Sir Harold Wyndham (27 June 1903 – 22 April 1988) was Director-General of Education in New South Wales between 1952 and 1968. He chaired the committee whose report (referred to as "The Wyndham Report") led to the Education Act 1961 which completely re-organised secondary education in NSW. Early life and background Wyndham was a great-grandson of Wadham Wyndham. His grandfather Alexander Wyndham (d.1915) arrived in Australia in the 1850s with a sizeable inheritance but within 20 years the fortune had been spent, lent or otherwise lost. Harold Stanley Wyndham was born in Forbes, New South Wales on 27 June 1903, first child to Agnes Effie (née Finigan) and Stanley Charles Wyndham. His mother Effie died in June 1908, a short time after the arrival of her third child, Norman. The children were cared for by their aunt Rachel, Effie's younger sister, whom Stanley later married. Rachel urged that the family be moved to Sydney to ensure the children could receive a more rounded educa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Board
Peter Board (27 March 1858 – 12 February 1945) was an Australian educationist and public servant best known for his advocacy of education reform in New South Wales. Board was born in Wingham, New South Wales, the son of a Scottish immigrant. He studied teaching in Sydney and later became a school inspector in country New South Wales. In 1905 he was appointed under-secretary and director of the Department of Public Instruction, a position he would hold until 1922. He oversaw the establishment of Sydney Teachers' College in 1906 and reforms such as a standardised curriculum overseen by a curriculum council and a high school leaving certificate. Board was appointed Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George in 1916. He retired as Director of Education in 1922, to be replaced by Stephen Henry Smith. Personal life In 1880, Board married Jessie Allen Bowes, daughter of suffragette and temperance activist Euphemia Bridges Bowes. Their only child was Ruby Board, who became ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
