Queensland Parliament’s Post

NZ Institute of Economic Research (NZIER) uses the surplus it makes from our consulting work to fund our Public Good Programme which provides thought leadership on addressing significant policy and economic issues confronting New Zealand. Sarah Hogan produced one of our most impactful pieces of work this year looking at how to improve the quality of maths teaching in New Zealand. This work has now been referenced in the Government’s Policy Statement on Teaching Council Functions. Click below to read the paper

Reading Reform Foundation UK Is the Reading Reform Foundation influenced or controlled by external powers such as funding sources, political agendas, or institutional pressures? Should there be more accountability and transparency in organisations advocating educational reforms? Read more at https://lnkd.in/gSbFem_p

Why is the approach to teaching, including the approach to teaching reading, changing in Victoria?  What do the changes look like?  What does it mean for education equity and engagement?  How can the community sector support the success of the reforms? Find out the answers to these questions and more at our next information session with the Department of Education. Register now: https://lnkd.in/gRqakav3

This announcement by the Secretary of State that the implementation of the Free Speech Act has been paused will be very much welcomed by the sector. The burden of this particular piece of legislation was going to be significant and there is now time to reflect further on its cost and value. Also we have the publication of Sir David Behan's review of the OfS - a hefty (108 page) report which offers a slew of recommendations for enhancing the regulatory effectiveness and efficiency of the OfS. Fun times in the HE regulatory world https://lnkd.in/eWWKv4_x

New Higher Ed Alert: Two key legal and legislative activities were reported on Friday, November 15, that impact Higher Ed. These have been summarized in an alert from Forvis Mazars US. Read to learn how this could impact your higher education institution: https://lnkd.in/gEgCHRUv

I invite you all to read the paper "The right to be fairly assessed," which I wrote with Monica Silva (UC) and Kurt Geisinger (Buros, U. Nebraska). In it, we propose creating said right as an institutional solution to several problems of testing and assessment! We hope it will start an exciting debate.

I love it when good analytical work (especially that from my colleagues) is influential in policy design! Last year, my colleagues Gregory Elacqua and Danielle Nascimento--together with Pedro Scatimburgo--published an analysis of how Brazil's municipalities and states select and assign their teachers (https://lnkd.in/eGiPVYwr). Here is a presentation in which the Minister of Education proposed a teacher reform to the President, drawing on that analysis. https://lnkd.in/erWGUE5G

BREAKING FREE SPEECH ON CAMPUS NEWS - the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Act 2023 will - in large part - return "shortly", the Secretary of State for Education has just announced. This includes the core duties to take reasonably practicable steps, the duty on codes of practice, and the ban on certain Non Disclosure Agreements. The statutory tort and the provisions on students' unions will not return and the provisions around foreign funding will not return yet, but the Director of Free Speech and the complaints scheme will return (modified to allow OfS to prioritise complaints and not necessarily consider them all). I think the latter was always going to have much more practical impact on Universities, in any event. This means that the OfS’ free speech guidance, which puts a lot of onus on Universities regarding compliance, policies, complaints schemes and training, will return too. We offer fixed price audit and compliance packages, and training packages, in order to help institutions. If you want to have a (free) chat about the implications for your institution or how we can help, let me know at jmurray@doyleclayton.co.uk. I’ve also published papers and articles on the requirements of the Act, so let me know if you’d like a copy!

Based on insights from the project NBS EduWORLD, this hybrid event will focus on future needs for educational materials & standards, education guidelines, EU legislative and policy frameworks, & mutual learning📚 https://lnkd.in/eD3TU2CY

Great article! “Overall, we need to move to a system that is more rooted in partnership and collaboration…[The system] has become fragmented, and we need to find ways of working together to deliver better life chances for our children…” System leadership can support a system rooted in collaboration.