Australian Indigenous Education Foundation Compendium of Best Practice for Achieving Successful Outcomes with Indigenous Students in Australian Boarding SchoolsAustralian Indigenous Education Foundation, Surry Hills, New South Wales, 2015, ISBN 9780646932743

2015 ◽  
Vol 44 (2) ◽  
pp. 207-209 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Stewart
Keyword(s):  
Best Practice ◽  
New South ◽  
Indigenous Education ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
Indigenous Students ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Successful Outcomes

The protocols for koala research using radio-collars: a review based on its application in a tall coastal forest in New South Wales and the implications for future research.

2006 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 187 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. L. Radford ◽  
J. McKee ◽  
R. L. Goldingay ◽  
R. P. Kavanagh
Keyword(s):  
Best Practice ◽  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Radio Tracking ◽  
Research Committee ◽  
Phascolarctos Cinereus ◽  
Current Form ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Pine Creek

In 1996, guidelines were produced for capture and radio-tracking protocols for koala (Phascolarctos cinereus) research within New South Wales (NSW). An integrated project commenced in 1998 to examine P. cinereus ecology and health status in Pine Creek State Forest. This project utilised intensive clinical and pathological assessment protocols on captured P. cinereus in combination with radio-tracking and ecological investigations. The methods used in this project were referred to the NSW Koala Research Committee (KRC) for review in mid 1999 due to the political profile of the study area. The KRC assessed the project protocols and reviewed the original guidelines incorporating some of the protocols used in the Pine Creek project. The outcome is a new set of protocols for P. cinereus research within NSW which are more explicit and restrictive than those applied to P. cinereus research elsewhere or to research on other species. In their current form the new guidelines require a substantial investment in time, equipment, personnel and finance; factors that may deter or restrict future, comprehensive ecological research on P. cinereus populations. They inadequately provide for some practices we believe important in minimising the invasiveness of P. cinereus capture. We propose amendments to the guidelines in the areas of personnel required, behavioural assessment, capture methods, processing safety and tracking frequency. We suggest that these amendments will render the guidelines more accessible to a broader range of projects, and easier to apply under field conditions while preserving the intent to maintain P. cinereus welfare and research best practice.

scholarly journals Group programs in corrections. Best practice meets real world

2014 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 93-109
Author(s):  
Kevin O'Sullivan
Keyword(s):  
Best Practice ◽  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
Cultural Shift ◽  
Probation And Parole ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Offender Supervision ◽  
Large Organisation ◽  
Group Programs ◽  
Systematic Data Collection

The past decade has seen a very significant cultural shift in how group programs are delivered in prisons and in probation and parole settings in New South Wales, Australia. The agency responsible for custodial and community corrections services, Corrective Services New South Wales (CSNSW) is making its way from a culture of considerable autonomy, where staff largely wrote and ran group programs in the way that seemed best to them, to an organisation where systems exist for accreditation, training, supervision and systematic data collection. The transformation to model agency is not complete, but considerable progress has been made and this is borne out by the preparation and publication of a number of significant papers describing the outcomes of program interventions. This paper appraises the progress so far in the introduction of evidence-based group work and offers some reflections on the challenges faced in moving a large organisation concerned with security and offender supervision towards best practice in group rehabilitative programs.

To Free the Spirit? Motivation and Engagement of Indigenous Students

2008 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
pp. 98-107 ◽  
Author(s):  
Geoff Munns ◽  
Andrew Martin ◽  
Rhonda Craven
Keyword(s):  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
Department Of Education ◽  
Aboriginal Education ◽  
Indigenous Students ◽  
South Wales ◽  
The Social ◽  
Motivation And Engagement ◽  
And Training ◽  
Consultative Group

AbstractThis article directly responds to issues impacting on the social and academic outcomes of Indigenous students that were identified in the recent review of Aboriginal Education conducted by the New South Wales Department of Education and Training (NSW DET) in partnership with New South Wales Aboriginal Education Consultative Group (NSW AECG). Not surprisingly, a common theme emerging from the review was the importance of student motivation and engagement for Indigenous students of all ages. The article reports on current research into the motivation, engagement and classroom pedagogies for a sample of senior primary Indigenous students. What is of particular interest is the cultural interplay of the lived experiences of these Indigenous students with schools, teachers and classroom pedagogies. Important questions arise from an analysis of this interplay about what might “free the spirit” for these and other Indigenous students.

Success Stories from an Indigenous Immersion Primary Teaching Experience in New South Wales Schools

2011 ◽  
Vol 40 ◽  
pp. 23-29 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ingrid Harrington ◽  
Inga Brasche
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Training ◽  
New England ◽  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
Teaching Experience ◽  
Community Services ◽  
Aboriginal Education ◽  
Indigenous Students ◽  
Success Stories ◽  
South Wales

A federal report released by the Department of Families and Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs (FaHCSIA, 2009), entitled Closing the Gap on Indigenous Disadvantage: The Challenge for Australia, highlighted the inequality that exists between Indigenous and non-Indigenous students based on a restricted access to resources, issues of isolation, staff and student retention, and cultural differences and challenges. In New South Wales (NSW), the Department of Education and Training (DET) and the Aboriginal Education Consultative Group (AECG) in 2003/2004 undertook their own review of Aboriginal education in NSW Government schools that revealed significant concerns about the outcomes being achieved by Aboriginal students in NSW DET schools, confirming the more recent FaHCSIA (2009) findings. In 2006 the NSW DET implemented the Enhanced Teacher Training Scholarship Program (ETTSP) to empower 20 final-year education students to successfully engage with Indigenous students in schools and their wider community during their internship period. Using themes, this article explores the experiences of 10 University of New England scholarship holders at the end of their final year of teacher training and immersion/internship experience in 2010. The article puts forward useful recommendations for both teacher universities and students intending to teach in schools with high Indigenous student populations.

Fetal and lamb losses from pregnancy scanning to lamb marking in commercial sheep flocks in southern New South Wales

2017 ◽  
Vol 57 (10) ◽  
pp. 2060 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. B. Allworth ◽  
H. A. Wrigley ◽  
A. Cowling
Keyword(s):  
Best Practice ◽  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
Ultrasound Scanning ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Preferential Feeding

Perinatal lamb mortality is a major challenge for sheep producers worldwide. Lamb losses from ultrasound pregnancy scanning to lamb marking were assessed in 125 mobs of ewes sourced predominantly from sheep flocks in southern New South Wales. In total, 103 086 lambs were marked from100 165 ewes present at joining. Despite the majority of producers undertaking best-practice ewe management, including ultrasound scanning for pregnancy and preferential feeding of multiple bearing ewes, losses were similar to those reported previously (11% and 29% for singles and twins respectively). Non-Merino ewes had significantly lower losses than did Merino ewes, irrespective of ram type (13% versus 21%, P < 0.001). There was a tendency for mob size in twin-bearing ewes to influence survival, with a lower mob size (<200) having lower losses (29% versus 33%, P = 0.07). These results are discussed in the context of existing extension advice about ewe management and perinatal lamb mortality.

Practices and Processes Used in the Return to Work of Injured New South Wales nurses: Are These Consistent With RTW Best Practice Principles?

2017 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 68-79
Author(s):  
Carole James ◽  
Michelle Antoine ◽  
Maya Guest ◽  
Darren Rivett ◽  
Ashley Kable
Keyword(s):  
Return To Work ◽  
Best Practice ◽  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
South Wales

scholarly journals Development of nutrition standards and therapeutic diet specifications for public hospitals in New South Wales

2014 ◽  
Vol 38 (4) ◽  
pp. 467 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Williams ◽  
Tanya Hazlewood ◽  
Glen Pang
Keyword(s):  
Best Practice ◽  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
Public Hospitals ◽  
Operating Efficiency ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Nutrition And Diet ◽  
Therapeutic Diets ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Nutrition Standards

In New South Wales (NSW), a new suite of nutrition standards for menus and specifications for therapeutic diets to be used in hospitals has been developed. These standards were required to facilitate centralised menu planning and food production, with the move to management of most hospital food services by HealthShare NSW, a state-wide business unit of NSW Health. The standards also aim to improve communication between health professionals, particularly with the increasing use of computerised meal-ordering systems. Nutrition standards have been developed for adult, paediatric and mental health inpatients, and specifications for 147 different adult and paediatric therapeutic diets. There is still significant variation in the nutrition standards for nutrition and therapeutic diets in hospitals across the Australian states, and a move to a more nationally harmonised approach would be welcome. Further research is required to examine the impact of these standards on operating efficiency and patient care outcomes. What is known about the topic? The development of nutrition standards for Australian hospitals is a new process and has not been described in the literature previously. What does this paper add? This paper provides a description of the process used in NSW to develop nutrition and diet standards, and citations of the key new documents, which could inform practitioners and policy makers in other states. What are the implications for practitioners? Hospital managers, foodservice staff, dietitians and other clinicians in NSW will need to be aware of the requirement in the new standards to ensure best practice care. Those in other jurisdictions should try to ensure movement towards more nationally consistent guidelines and standards.

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