Hobart – Tasmania
Constitution Dock
L–R: Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hotel Grand Chancellor (where I stayed on this trip); Federation Concert Hall (home of the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra).
This Hobart set is connected with the history of school education systems in Australia, and sits between two chapters in the devolvement of aspects of nationally consistent education policy ...
Working with my CEO, I used to manage all of the administrative work for a national expert advisory group that was responsible for the nationally consistent measurement and reporting of school and student education performance information. We chose Hobart, and the Hotel Grand Chancellor, as the site of our last meeting, before handing over our processes and records to the newly established Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA).
This may alarm some Australian readers – at this time, the advisory group (i.e. primarily me) was responsible for the contract management of the 2010 NAPLAN test, covering the gap in time while the test administration was being transferred from an entity based in Melbourne to ACARA in Sydney. This was because all of the National Assessment Program was managed out of Queensland, as our education CEO was the permanent chair of the advisory group, which reported to the national education CEOs' committee and the relevant Ministerial Council. How on earth i ever found myself in such a position, I will never know! :-)
It was also related work with education data that landed me in Albuquerque New Mexico for the first time, as seen elsewhere in my Flickr blog. It's a long story ...
Hobart – Tasmania
Constitution Dock
L–R: Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hotel Grand Chancellor (where I stayed on this trip); Federation Concert Hall (home of the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra).
This Hobart set is connected with the history of school education systems in Australia, and sits between two chapters in the devolvement of aspects of nationally consistent education policy ...
Working with my CEO, I used to manage all of the administrative work for a national expert advisory group that was responsible for the nationally consistent measurement and reporting of school and student education performance information. We chose Hobart, and the Hotel Grand Chancellor, as the site of our last meeting, before handing over our processes and records to the newly established Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA).
This may alarm some Australian readers – at this time, the advisory group (i.e. primarily me) was responsible for the contract management of the 2010 NAPLAN test, covering the gap in time while the test administration was being transferred from an entity based in Melbourne to ACARA in Sydney. This was because all of the National Assessment Program was managed out of Queensland, as our education CEO was the permanent chair of the advisory group, which reported to the national education CEOs' committee and the relevant Ministerial Council. How on earth i ever found myself in such a position, I will never know! :-)
It was also related work with education data that landed me in Albuquerque New Mexico for the first time, as seen elsewhere in my Flickr blog. It's a long story ...