Determination of employment conditions of teachers in Western Australian government schools: new directions

1995 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 155-163
Author(s):  
Anwar (Andy) N Khan ◽  
Adjunct ◽  
Tony Travaglione ◽  
Peter Williams
Keyword(s):  
Australian Government ◽  
Government Schools ◽  
Employment Conditions ◽  
New Directions ◽  
Western Australian

Suspension and Exclusion Rates for Aboriginal Students in Western Australia

1995 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 32-35 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Gardiner ◽  
David Evans ◽  
Kenneth Howell
Keyword(s):  
Western Australia ◽  
Australian Government ◽  
Government Schools ◽  
Aboriginal Students ◽  
Western Australian

AbstractThis brief report highlights an apparently inflated suspension and exclusion rate for Aboriginal students in Western Australian government schools. The elevated rates for both suspension and exclusion, but especially for the more serious step of exclusion, should be reason for concern for all educators.

scholarly journals Objective assessment of compliance with a state-wide school food-service policy via menu audits

2019 ◽  
Vol 22 (09) ◽  
pp. 1696-1703 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gael Myers ◽  
Megan Sauzier ◽  
Amanda Ferguson ◽  
Simone Pettigrew
Keyword(s):  
Secondary Schools ◽  
Objective Assessment ◽  
Healthy Food ◽  
Australian Government ◽  
Traffic Light ◽  
Government Schools ◽  
Government School ◽  
School Canteen ◽  
Food And Drink ◽  
Western Australian

AbstractObjectiveThe Healthy Food and Drink Policy was implemented in Western Australian government schools in 2007. The aim of the present study was to assess the compliance of Western Australian school canteen menus with the policy a decade after its introduction.DesignThe traffic-light system that underpins the Healthy Food and Drink Policy categorises foods and drinks into three groups: ‘green’ healthy items, ‘amber’ items that should be selected carefully and ‘red’ items that lack nutritional value. Canteen menus were collected online and each menu item was coded as a green, amber or red choice.SettingWestern Australia.ParticipantsOnline canteen menus from 136 primary and secondary government schools.ResultsThe majority of audited school menus met policy requirements to include ≥60 % green items (84 %) and ≤40 % amber items (90 %), but only 52 % completely excluded red items. Overall, approximately half (48 %) of school canteen menus met all three traffic-light targets. On average, 70 % of the menu items were green, 28 % were amber and 2 % were red. Primary-school canteen menus were more likely than those from secondary schools to meet the requirements of the policy.ConclusionsWhile the sampled Western Australian government school canteen menus were highly compliant with most of the requirements of the Healthy Food and Drink Policy, many offered red foods and/or drinks. Providing all schools with further education about identifying red items and offering additional services to secondary schools may help improve compliance rates.

Public Accountability or Fiscal Control? Benchmarks of Performance in Australian Schooling

1996 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 104-123 ◽  
Author(s):  
Louise Watson
Keyword(s):  
Performance Indicators ◽  
Service Provision ◽  
School Effectiveness ◽  
Measuring System ◽  
Government Schools ◽  
Public Resources ◽  
Government Education ◽  
Efficiency And Effectiveness ◽  
Performance Benchmarks

The Industry Commission review of service provision in school education aims to define performance benchmarks for Australia's eight government education systems, by providing comparative measures of efficiency in education provision. Such benchmarks are likely to lead to a reduction in the level of public resources for government schools unless it is possible to demonstrate the link between expenditure on schooling and school effectiveness. If efficiency audits like the Industry Commission review are to deal with issues of school effectiveness adequately, they should avoid the tendency of previous public sector audits to focus on financial data on schools expenditure to the exclusion of data on student achievement. This paper suggests an approach to measuring system performance which would establish benchmarks that reflected both the efficiency and effectiveness of Australian school systems, and warns against the misuse of performance indicators as an instrument in the determination of funding levels for schools.

Offensive behaviours against school leaders: Prevalence, perpetrators and mediators in Australian government schools

2021 ◽  
pp. 174114322110573
Author(s):  
Ben Arnold ◽  
Mark Rahimi ◽  
Phil Riley
Keyword(s):  
Physical Violence ◽  
School Leaders ◽  
Australian Government ◽  
School Employees ◽  
Government Schools ◽  
Government School ◽  
School Based ◽  
Pooled Prevalence ◽  
Socio Demographic Factors ◽  
Survey Responses

Offensive behaviour towards school employees is widespread and involves a number of potentially harmful acts. There is evidence that school employees’ experiences of offensive behaviour are shaped by demographic, role and school-based factors that mediate the likelihood of victimisation. However, very few studies have investigated the prevalence and correlates of offensive behaviour against school leaders. This study analysed 13,028 survey responses from the Australia Principal Occupational Health, Safety and Wellbeing survey that were completed between the years 2011 and 2019. The analysis determined the prevalence of bullying, threats of violence and physical violence against government school leaders, the main perpetrators of these offenses and the moderating effects of key socio-demographic factors. Results from the study demonstrated that considerable proportions of Australian government school leaders were subjected to offensive behaviour with an average (pooled) prevalence of 36.2% for bullying, 48.6% for threats of violence and 38.7% for physical violence. School leaders report that students and parents are responsible for most offensive behaviours, but that colleagues also contribute considerably to incidents of bullying. Our findings illustrate that offensive behaviours against Australian school leaders are very high and that particular groups of school leaders are at elevated risk of victimization, especially female school leaders and to a lesser extent assistant principals and those inner or outer regional areas.

Biochemical genetics and recognition of a western stock of the common gemfish, Rexea solandri (Scombroidea : Gempylidae), in Australia

1997 ◽  
Vol 48 (2) ◽  
pp. 103 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donald J. Colgan ◽  
John R. Paxton
Keyword(s):  
Restriction Fragment ◽  
Protein Electrophoresis ◽  
Fish Stock ◽  
Stock Structure ◽  
Muscle Tissues ◽  
Restriction Fragment Polymorphism ◽  
The Common ◽  
Reduced Activity ◽  
Western Australian

Protein electrophoresis and analysis of restriction fragment polymorphism in mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) provided information on population/stock structure of Rexea solandri. Two distinct Australian stocks are evident, with one (AAT-2) of 36 enzymatic loci and all 11 mtDNA digestion profiles showing highly significant differences between eastern and southern/western Australian specimens. The split is at the western end of Bass Strait, with limited mixing off western Tasmania. No external characters were found that would allow determination of the provenance of an individual fish. Stock distinction between eastern Australian and New Zealand fish is less clear; some differences, usually statistically non-significant, in genetic frequencies were found and some rare allozymic or restriction fragment variants were found in one or other but not both regions. Estimates of gene flow suggest that only tens of individuals per generation migrate between the regions. In an experiment on tissue deterioration, after six days of exposure out of doors, significant amounts of intact mtDNA were present in all tissues, and all fragments of the HINF 1 phenotype were clearly scorable. Of 19 enzymes tested, only three showed reduced activity on Day 6. Gonad and muscle tissues were more resistant to degradation than was liver tissue.

The importance of the type and time of inoculation and assessment in the determination of resistance in Brassia napus and B. juncea to Sclerotinia sclerotiorum

2007 ◽  
Vol 58 (12) ◽  
pp. 1198 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. X. Li ◽  
Hua Li ◽  
A. B. Siddique ◽  
K. Sivasithamparam ◽  
P. Salisbury ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sclerotinia Sclerotiorum ◽  
Screening Methods ◽  
Post Inoculation ◽  
Sclerotinia Stem Rot ◽  
Sources Of Resistance ◽  
Myceliogenic Germination ◽  
Variable Impact ◽  
Western Australian ◽  
Mycelial Suspension

Sclerotinia stem rot (SSR) is a significant agricultural problem worldwide. Finding sources of resistance is crucial to the ongoing search for better management of this disease. Brassica germplasm from Australia, China and India was screened for resistance to SSR under Western Australian field conditions following stem inoculation, application of a spray of mycelial suspension, or as a consequence of myceliogenic germination originating from sclerotia resident in soil. Significant differences in response were observed among 53 genotypes using each of the three screening methods. There was a variable impact of the time of inoculation on the disease level depending upon time of assessment post-stem inoculation. However, this impact could be reduced to an insignificant level provided the assessment after stem inoculation was delayed until 3 weeks post-inoculation. The results of these studies indicate that the use of appropriate inoculation and assessment methods could significantly reduce variability in the responses commonly observed in screening for resistance in crop plants against Sclerotinia sclerotiorum.

A transient method of measuring the thermal properties of rocks

Geophysics ◽  
1993 ◽  
Vol 58 (3) ◽  
pp. 357-365 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mike F. Middleton
Keyword(s):  
Thermal Conductivity ◽  
Heat Flux ◽  
Sensitivity Analysis ◽  
Thermal Diffusivity ◽  
Sedimentary Basins ◽  
Constant Heat Flux ◽  
Transient Method ◽  
Constant Heat ◽  
Western Australian

The aim of the paper is to describe a new, rapid transient method for the determination of thermal diffusivity and thermal conductivity of rocks. The present transient method is based on the application of a constant heat flux to the top surface of a block of rock that is insulated on all other surfaces. Results of a sensitivity analysis of the method indicate that thermal diffusivity can be measured to a best accuracy of about 3 percent, and thermal conductivity of saturated rocks can be determined to a best accuracy of about 8 percent. The method provides estimates of thermal conductivity that are consistent with estimates made using the steady‐state divided‐bar apparatus. The method is applied to determine the thermal conductivity of a suite of rocks from western Australian sedimentary basins.

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