Continuing Professional Development for Secondary Food Technology Teachers in New South Wales (NSW), Australia

2020 ◽  
pp. 195-208
Author(s):  
Carly Saunders
Keyword(s):  
Professional Development ◽  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
Continuing Professional Development ◽  
Food Technology ◽  
Technology Teachers ◽  
South Wales

Online Collaborative Learning and Learning Styles

2011 ◽  
pp. 1339-1347
Author(s):  
Tony Day
Keyword(s):  
Professional Development ◽  
Collaborative Learning ◽  
Learning Styles ◽  
Learning Community ◽  
Comparative Education ◽  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
Online Learning Community ◽  
Online Collaborative Learning ◽  
South Wales

The need for the development of an online learning community for professional development and support for new and experienced educators is growing due to the significant turnover of teachers within the first five years (National Center for Teaching and America’s Future, 2003). This trend is also present in other countries: England has a turnover rate of teachers at 18% in the first three years (Hayes, 2004), and Australia, especially in the New South Wales area, has a rate of between 20% and 50% within the first three to five years (Manuel, 2003). This challenge would be best met through the online collaborative learning model allowing for the development of outside resources without the excessive cost of the educator’s most valuable commodity: time. This process is especially valuable for the utilization of comparative education issues between cooperating countries as it will lend itself to the collegiality of educators across countries and cultures.

scholarly journals Bush Lawyers in New South Wales and Queensland: A Spatial Analysis

2011 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 75 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kevin McDougall ◽  
Reid Mortensen
Keyword(s):  
Professional Development ◽  
Spatial Analysis ◽  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
Legal Services ◽  
Legal Practice ◽  
Law Schools ◽  
Employment Patterns ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Legal Infrastructure

This article deals with the effect that different structures for the legal profession might have on supporting legal practice. There is a particular focus on Queensland, and its Law Society’s claim that conveyancing protection is important infrastructure for practice in the bush. A spatial analysis was undertaken to compare the availability of legal services in Queensland and New South Wales (where non-lawyer conveyancing is allowed) in 2008. Areas in the two states classified according to the Accessibility/Remoteness Index of Australia (ARIA) were compared, and it was found that NSW had an equal or marginally better provision of legal services in all ARIA categories. The implications that this has for conveyancing protection, and other differences between the states (the earlier availability of incorporated law practices (ILPs) and the higher number of regional law schools in NSW) are discussed. Only a comprehensive longitudinal analysis can more strongly isolate the likely effect, if any, of conveyancing protection, ILPs and regional law schools on bush practice. However, the suggestion is that the differences in legal infrastructure — including conveyancing protection — are less important for supporting legal services in the bush than social considerations (family, lifestyle, professional development, gender, employment patterns and salary) are likely to be.

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