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MINISTER FOR EDUCATION AND TRAINING
LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY QUESTION
QUESTION NO 573
School Based Management
MR CORNWELL - asked the Minister for Education and Training on notice on 24 February 1993:
Further to your reply of 12 May 1992 to Question on Notice No. 13 that "The School Based Management Working Party has presented its report to me. I am examining the report and a response will be provided when this examination is concluded." and your subsequent reply of February 12, 1993 (Question on Notice No. 479) that "The Department of Education and Training is working through the details of implementation of a trial school based management program. Until the details are finalised, the trial, as mentioned in the Annual Management Report, will not go ahead in 1993 as planned."
(1) Why was a response not provided, as promised, following your examination of the Report of the School Based Management Working Party.
(2) Why did the Department of Education and Training Annual Management Report 1991-92, page 40, state that "...schoolbased management is being trialed in a small number of ACT schools-." if in fact it was not being trialed then.
(3) What details of implementation need to be worked through.
(4) As the trial is over 12 months are we to assume it will not take place until at least 1994.
MR WOOD - the answer to Mr Cornwells question is:
(1) With the implementation of the National Project on the Quality of Teaching and Learning (NPQTL) and the inclusion of school board management as an item of the project I decided it was inappropriate to answer before the NPQTL has reported on the issues.
(2) At 30 Jun? 1992, considerable work had been competed under the auspices of the NPQTL to allow the actual trials to commence. Participating schools had been identified, detailed trial. arrangements had beer developed and documented and proposed budget= finalised. Negotiation:. with relevant unions were in train.
Departmental officers :interpreted this activity as forming part of the trial process. However, the actual trials had not commenced.
(3) Impiementation arrangements have beer completed. However, the support of one union was ultimately not forthcoming and
(4) the trials, as NPQTL projects, have not progressed. The matter continues to receive consideration by my Department as part of the normal management process.
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