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Submission To The Partridge Committee Of Inquiry Into The Future Needs Of Post-Secondary Education By Mount Lawley Teachers College, April 1975, Mount Lawley Teachers College

Research outputs pre 2011

In the short time available it has been impossible to prepare this submission in anything but general terms. However, the aim has been to comment on four major aspects of the development of tertiary institutions in this State:

PLANNING

1.1 restructuring of the bodies co-ordinating tertiary education

1.2 co-ordinated development of overlapping areas of technical, further and tertiary education

1.3 community college and open-learning operation of tertiary institutions for greater benefit of local communities

1.4 accountability of institutions of advanced education in terms of vocational supply and demand and community benefit proportional to public funds invested in such institutions.

The Practicum: Present And Future : Report On The National Conference On Teacher Education, Perth, Western Australia, 18-22 August 1975, Mount Lawley College Of Advanced Education

Research outputs pre 2011

In Western Australia concern had been expressed among those involved in the professional preparation of teachers that there was a tendency to de-emphasize the practical components of courses in favour of the more theoretical academic disciplines.

There was a view expressed, perhaps rather parachially, that Western Australia, disadvantaged by distance for on-going communication between institutions, also appeared to be used very sparingly as a venue for conferences on education.

With this in mind College staff, early in 1974, decided to explore the possibility of mounting a national conference in Perth with the practicum of teacher education as its theme. A …