Ongoing politic debate in New South Wales is centred on major funding cuts for education. As has been well reported, significant cuts to the public education budget and a freeze on non-government school funding has brought about significant public debate and reactions from a broad sector of society. There are two levels of this dialogue…
Gladys Asuga, a doctoral student of mine, and I have recently been announced as the joint winners of the 2012 Emerald/ALCS African Management Research Fund Award for a project entitled Investing in leaders: evaluating school leadership preparation and development in Kenya. This is a great outcome for Gladys and myself, recognising the work we are…
While my original intent was to engage with Roberto Esposito’s notion of community / immunity in this week’s blog, I feel the current school funding debate raging in New South Wales warrants attention. I will return to Esposito in next week’s blog. Since last Tuesday’s confidential meeting between NSW Education Minister Adrian Piccoli, Geoff Newcombe,…
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