Page 938 - Week 03 - Thursday, 14 March 1991
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the Kearney report for upgrading of the ACT public hospital system, with the establishment of a principal hospital and another lower level public hospital at Calvary. It does not cover the unit, any more than would the movement of the QEII home to the Acton site. That is quite separate, although it could be managed as part of that same process.
School Principals Conference
MRS NOLAN: My question is to Mr Humphries, this time in his capacity as Minister for Education. What was the purpose of the combined principals conference that was held for principals of ACT public schools early in March?
MR HUMPHRIES: There was a three-day conference in Queanbeyan from 6 to 8 March this year. It brought together about 100 principals from all ACT public primary and secondary schools and colleges, together with principal executive officers and senior administrators from the Ministry for Health, Education and the Arts.
The conference was a combined initiative of the ministry and the ACT Principals Association and an important pro-active undertaking to address major issues confronting school and system administrators today. The theme was educational effectiveness in turbulent times. It addressed the increasingly complex role of the school manager enhancing good education practice. It acknowledged recent changes in the Government's structure and administration of ACT schools under self-government, and it recognised the influence that contemporary factors such as economic restraint and increased accountability can have on school effectiveness.
The conference considered both interstate and international theory and practice in education leadership and effective school management and was addressed by eminent educators in the field of education administration, school effectiveness and performance, and career development.
Principals and senior administrators from the education division of the ministry worked together throughout those three days to address the emerging issues of the nineties that will impact on education provision for students in our schools. The education plan for ACT public schools was launched at that conference.
Mr Kaine: Mr Speaker, I request that further questions be placed on the notice paper.
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