Melbourne Graduate School of Education

Events Calendar 2009

August

4 - 6

NZ Graduate Information Sessions

12

2009 Dean's Lecture Series

'Why and How School Context Matters'

Presenter: Professor Pat Thomson, Director of Research in the School of Education at the University of Nottingham

When: 6.30 - 7.30pm (Refreshments provided)
Where: Theatre A, Elisabeth Murdoch Building (Building 134), The University of Melbourne

Free and open to the public - all welcome.
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Register your attendance to secure your seat.

Email: education-events@unimelb.edu.au

16

Open Day 2009

Further details coming soon.

October

7

2009 Dean's Lecture Series

'Improving Learning in Mathematics'

Presenter: Professor Malcolm Swan, Professor of Mathematic Education, University of Nottingham

When: 6,30 - 7.30pm (Refreshments provided)
Where: Theatre A, Elisabeth Murdoch Building (Building 134), The University of Melbourne

Free and open to the public - all welcome.
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Register your attendance to secure your seat.

Email: education-events@unimelb.edu.au


28

2009 Dean's Lecture Series

'Developing Strategic Leadership and Strategic Talent In Schools'

Presenter: Professor Brent Davies, Professor of International Leadership Development, University of Hull

When: 6.30 - 7.30pm (Refreshments provided)
Where: Theatre A, Elisabeth Murdoch Building (Building 134), The University of Melbourne

Free and open to the public - all welcome.
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Register your attendance to secure your seat.

Email: education-events@unimelb.edu.au


November

11

2009 Dean's Lecture Series

'Improving Educational Outcomes in Victoria: Implementing the Blueprint for Education and Early Childhood Development'

Presenter: Professor Peter Dawkins, Victorian Education Department Secretary

When: 6 - 7 pm (Refreshments provided)
Where: Prince Philip Theatre, Architecture, Building and Planning Building (Building 133)

Free and open to the public - all welcome
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Register your attendance to secure your seat.

Email: education-events@unimelb.edu.au


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The Centre for Equity and Innovation in Early Childhood’s

9th Annual International Conference
'Honoring the Child, Honoring Equity 9: Children’s rights in research, policy and practice'

 

Call for Papers – deadline 16 June 2009
For more information visit the conference website: www.education.unimelb.edu.au/ceiec

Contact: Kate Alexander
Phone: +61 3 8344 7780
Fax: +61 3 9347 9380
Email: education-ceiec-conference@unimelb.edu.au

Biographical Notes:

Professor Barry McGaw is half-time Director of the Melbourne Education Research Institute at the University of Melbourne where he is Executive Director of the Cisco-Intel-Microsoft Assessment and Teaching of 21st Century Skills project. He is Chair of the National Curriculum Board.

Prior to returning to Australia at the end of 2005, he was Director for Education at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). He had earlier been Executive Director of the Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER), Professor of Education at Murdoch University, Head of the Research and Curriculum Branch in the Queensland Department of Education and originally a science teacher in Queensland secondary schools. He holds BSc, DipEd and BEd(Hons) from the University of Queensland and EdM and PhD from the University of Illinois.

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