Director General's Memo: Commonwealth-state Funding Outcomes for NSW

Dear Colleagues,   State and territory governments met with the Commonwealth on the weekend to negotiate funding agreements for public schools and vocational education and training.   Of course you’d have to been living on the moon to miss recent media coverage of all this, so forgive me any repetition in outlining how this is likely to affect us.   In a nutshell, these new agreements will provide significant, and welcome, new resources for... Read More

'NSW pulls out of computers-for-schools program'

The term ends and one would hope for more inspirational news from our political and system leaders. The above headline is from the ABC website and I am assuming it is reporting on yesterday’s memo from the Director-General but am uncertain what it will mean for us in schools who have already been allocated money/laptops from Round 1.  My school has been expecting 233 laptops and the wireless infrastructure to support these tools. Does this... Read More