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Some Statistical Data On Education In Australia, Australian Council For Educational Research (Acer)

Information Bulletin 1945-1951

Tables Showing Numbers of Schools, Students and Teachers for All States and Australia, 1946.

Sources from which the information has been obtained are indicated by numbers in brackets in front of the figure given.

(1 Annual report of State department.

(2 Gazette or classified roll of state department.

(3 Statistical register or year book of state,

(4 University calendar.

(5 Information supplied by state department.

(6 Quoted by Dr. Sanders in Student Selection & Academic Success (Commonwealth Office Research Series, No.1).

The Experimental Rural School Errol Street, North Melbourne, Australian Council For Educational Research (Acer)

Information Bulletin 1945-1951

This is a school originally established to assist in training teachers in Victoria for work in one teacher rural schools. It is attached to, and administratively part of, a large primary school at Errol Street, in North Melbourne, one of the poorer inner suburbs of Melbourne. The teacher in charge of the rural school is given considerable freedom to develop new methods and course of study. Since 1947 this school has not been used as a training centre.

Taken individually, few of the features of this school are so uncommon in the Victorian state system as to warrant a special …

Short Courses And University Summer Schools In Britain 1949, Australian Council For Educational Research (Acer)

Information Bulletin 1945-1951

The British Council is again organising several general courses and University Summer Schools in the United Kingdom this year. These may be of interest to Australians going to Britain, and particularly to teachers and post-graduate students. These may appeal to those wanting more than a superficial holiday in Britain. They include courses on Actors and Acting, the Nursing Profession, Librarianship, Forestry, Local Government, Juvenile Delinquency, Industrial Welfare, English Literature, Music and so on. They are held between April and October at various places in Britain, last about a fortnight, and the average inclusive fee is about £20. [p.1, ed]

Short Courses And University Summer Schools In Britain 1950, Australian Council For Educational Research (Acer)

Information Bulletin 1945-1951

Encouraged by the success of the programme of courses for 1949, the British Council has allowed in 1950 for some expansion both in the numbers of courses and in the variety of subjects. These courses, together' with the University Summer Schools, may prove of interest to some Australians going to Britain, especially to those who wish to have something more than a superficial holiday. The Courses are attended by a wide variety of people -business executives, post-graduate students, teachers, etc., representing many nations. Visits to illustrate the lectures are arranged and also excursions to places of interest. The subjects chosen …

Acer 1948-1949 Annual Report, Australian Council For Educational Research (Acer)

ACER Annual Reports

No abstract provided.

Short Summer Courses In England Arranged By The British Council, Australian Council For Educational Research (Acer)

Information Bulletin 1945-1951

In view of the increasing number of Australian teachers and post-graduate students who have proceeded to Britain during the past year and the possibility that these numbers will increase during succeeding years, it seems that information regarding short summer courses available in Britain may be of interest to those planning overseas tours.

The information contained in this bulletin is a precis of pamphlets and circulars supplied by the British Council, and the Bulletin itself has been checked by the Victorian officer of that body. Even although the time remaining before the closing date for nominations may, in many cases, be …

Comparative Age-Grade Levels In State Schools Of The Australian States, Australian Council For Educational Research (Acer)

Information Bulletin 1945-1951

Some years ago, the Australian Council for Educational Research prepared a table of the equivalent grades in the six Australian States. In 1945 and 1946 the R.A.A.F Vocational Guidance Service reprinted the upper section of this table, together with other information regarding post-primary courses and examinations, as "Comparative Educational Levels in the Australian States”. While it is now fairly evident, from the comparison of curricula end results in our curriculum survey, that there are no strictly comparable levels in the content of courses or in the mean ages of children, the R.A.A.F. table has apparently proved useful to head masters …

Higher Education For American Democracy, Australian Council For Educational Research (Acer)

Information Bulletin 1945-1951

On July 13, 1946, President Truman appointed a number of outstanding American civic and educational leaders to a Presidential Commission on Higher Education, charging them to examine the functions of higher education in the United States of America and the best means to perform these, On December 11th 1947 the chairman of the Commission (George F. Zook) submitted the first volume of the report of the Commission to the President.

The six volumes of the report are all titled "Higher Education for American Democracy" and are, in order: Vol. 1, Establishing the Goals, 2. Equalizing and Expanding Individual Opportunity. 3. …

Opinions Of Victorian Teachers On Co-Education, Australian Council For Educational Research (Acer)

Information Bulletin 1945-1951

Few questions divide educational opinion more acutely than that as to whether boys and girls at the secondary stage should be taught in the same school or in separate schools. Public opinion in Australia is in the same position. According to the results of a Gallup Poll published in March 1947, fifty per cent were in favour of teaching together boys and girls of 11 years and over, 42 per cent would teach them separately, and 8 per cent were undecided. Adults between twenty and thirty years of age showed a distinctly more favourable attitude towards co-education than did older …

Sex Education In New South Wales, Australian Council For Educational Research (Acer), Beryl King

Information Bulletin 1945-1951

This bulletin includes a study conducted in 1946 by Miss Beryl King, at that time on the staff of the Armidale Teachers’ College in New South Wales, who surveyed the amount and type of sex education given through schools or churches across three states, Victoria, NSW, and Queensland. It found that non-departmental (private) schools teach more biological science involving reproduction than did departmental (public) schools. Furthermore, it suggests that there is little administrative difference regarding sex education in the three states, with any steps taken to instruct on sex education resting entirely with the teachers themselves. The questionnaires were also …

Errors In The Marking Of Printed Tests, Australian Council For Educational Research (Acer)

Information Bulletin 1945-1951

The following comments are the result of preliminary analysis of some errors made by a random sample of teachers in marking the test papers of pupils who, in 1946, took part in the testing programme in connection with the Curriculum Survey being conducted by the A.C.E.R.

All schools where children did the tests were asked to select a certain number of papers at random from each grade and forward them to the A.C.E.R. The numbers sent in from each school were roughly proportional to the size of the school. Thus large schools sent in more papers per grade than the …

The Married Woman Teacher And The Right To Teach, Australian Council For Educational Research (Acer)

Information Bulletin 1945-1951

This bulletin compares investigations carried out by the International Bureau of Education (IBE) in 1932 with a subsequent consultation conducted in 1946 regarding the right for married women to teach. The IBE contacted 45 countries, 40 of whom declared that they made no distinction between married and unmarried women as to their right to teach. Of these, some had complementary remarks including different measures of maternity leave available. The remaining 5 countries, including Australia, did not sanction the employment of married women teachers. Four other countries allowed women to teach, but subject to certain restrictions, and several more, including the …

Engineering Education, Australian Council For Educational Research

Information Bulletin 1945-1951

In 1946 Mr K. S. Lennie, of Sydney Technical College conducted a survey of opinion on Professional Engineering Education in Australia. He submitted a questionnaire to 200 representative individuals concerned with engineering including graduate and non-graduate engineers, senior and junior engineers, university and technical college teachers, and industrialists, government and private, representing both civil and mechanical engineering. Replies were received from 41% of those approached, and from an analysis of those replies the conclusions were reached which are presented in this bulletin.

Matriculation Requirements At Australian, New Zealand And Some English And Scottish Universities, Australian Council For Educational Research (Acer)

Information Bulletin 1945-1951

The information included in this bulletin is a compressed statement on the matriculation requirements of Universities in Australia, New Zealand, England and Scotland. It was originally prepared for use in the A.C.E.R. office for reference purposes but because of requests for similar information from varied sources, and in the belief that it might prove of more general value, it is reproduced here without expansion as a Bulletin in our Information Series.

Some Current Problems In English Education, Australian Council For Educational Research (Acer)

Information Bulletin 1945-1951

On the question of organisition at the secondary level Australia, as a whole has not given evidence of any very clear-cut policy. The common practice is to provide separate academic and technical schools in the capital cities and large country towns with certain intermediate types of school which may have a bias in one direction and may act primarily: as “feeders” to schools giving more advanced courses. Except in Tasmania the “modern school” has not emerged very explicitly. In many of the smaller country centres, however, we find dual or multi-purpose schools. It is not easy to say whether these …

Children's Entertainment, Irma Schnierer

Future of Education

Children need entertainment as much as they need food, clothing and education. In fact, entertainment is part of education, and education and entertainment can be interlocked to their mutual advantage. The ideal would be to have entertaining education and educational entertainment. There are still many parents, teachers and other educationists who are not in favour of entertainment for children, irrespective of whether it is good or bad, because they think it distracts the children from their home and school duties. They are right in so far as entertainment by the cinema, radio and other agencies should not be allowed to …

Education For Livelihood., Leslie William Phillips

Future of Education

Every normal citizen is faced with the problem of acquiring some skill for which the community is prepared to reward him. He may, like the engineer, add years of special study to the normal years of schooling, or like the unskilled labourer learn on the job to use a pick and shovel, or like the artist live on a crust in the hope that society will eventually recognize his talent. [p.3]

It is obvious that educational planning must take special account of this problem of preparing for livelihood. The problem has many different facets. At what age should preparation commence? …

A Brief Guide To Australian Universities (Preliminary Draft), Australian Council For Educational Research

Information Bulletin 1945-1951

This 1946 Bulletin was compiled primarily for the guidance of overseas students wishing to study at Australian universities. For the six Australian universities at that time (Sydney, Melbourne, Queensland, Adelaide, Western Australia, and Tasmania - plus New England University College and Canberra University College) the bulletin provides an overview of university administration, admission requirements, living conditions, residential facilities, general expenses and care of student health. It outlines fees and scholarships available, a summary of courses and subjects of study, and information about social life and student societies. Statistics include teaching staff, student enrolments, fees for courses and for residential colleges, …

1946 Term Dates : Primary And Secondary Schools In The Australian States : Numbers Of Pupils Involved., Australian Council For Educational Research

Information Bulletin 1945-1951

This 1945 bulletin was compiled by the Australian Council for Educational Research based on Australian state Education Gazettes to show the dates each of the three school terms by state and level of schooling. It estimated the numbers of pupils affected for each type of school in each state. Term dates for Private Schools were not available, and assumed to show great variation even in any one State.

Acer 1945-1946 Annual Report, Australian Council For Educational Research (Acer)

ACER Annual Reports

No abstract provided.

Report On Reorganisation Of The Library, Harold Leslie White

Information Management

Since the A.C.E.R. was established in 1930 the library has steadily developed in order to meet certain obvious needs but without any attempt at exact definition of policy. The increased the Library and the desirability of providing the most efficient service possible have led to the appointment of a trained librarian and to more careful consideration of the functions which the library should perform and the methods it should adopt. The Council is greatly indebted to the National Library at Canberra for making available for about two days the services of Mr. H. L. White, an authority on special libraries. …

Travelling Scholarships Available To Australians For Study Overseas, Australian Council For Educational Research (Acer)

Information Bulletin 1945-1951

The detailed statements show that in 1945, approximately 31 scholarships were normally available each year for competition among Australian students who wish to continue their studies overseas. National scholarships included the Rhodes Scholarship, 1851 Exhibition Science Research Scholarships, British Council Scholarships and the Gowrie Scholarship Trust fund. The remainder of scholarships were state-based. The majority of scholarships were for engineering and Science. Free Passages scholarships were provided by the Australian and New Zealand Shipping Companies.

State Expenditure On Education In Australia And Some Overseas Countries, Australian Council For Educational Research

Information Bulletin 1945-1951

No abstract provided.

The School Leaving Age, Elwyn A. Morey

Vocational, adult and professional education research

No abstract provided.

Libraries In Secondary Schools: A Report On The Libraries Of Secondary Schools In Victoria, With Suggestions For A Post-War Plan For School Libraries Prepared For The Australian Institute Of Librarians (Victorian Branch), Frank G. Kirby

Information Management

In order to ascertain the present position with regard to library provision in Victorian secondary education, questionnaires were sent to 91 schools, 50 government and 41 private. Answers were received from 51. No replies were received from 37 schools, while 3 schools explained that circumstances prevented them at that time from complying with our request. Although it is to be regretted that 37 schools failed to return replies, we may reasonably assume that this negative result indicates that most of these schools either have no library, or that the library is so small that it was not considered worth while …

Universities In Australia., Eric Ashby

Future of Education

The author states that the purpose of writing this piece is to put before the Australian public the case for universities. It is directed to parents who want their children to get a degree; to industrialists who employ (or refuse to employ) university men and women; to those public servants who look on graduates with suspicion and to those politicians who look on them with contempt. [p.5, ed]

This essay deals with the problems which Australian universities face. [p.6, ed]

It deals with issues of attitudes towards Australian universities, subjects, curriculum, barriers to entry and much more.

From School To Work : A Plea For Vocational Guidance., W.M O'Neil

Future of Education

Practically every young Australian leaving school goes to work and the choice of that work is a momentous decision for both the young person and his parents. [p.3]

Unfortunately, the business of choosing a career has become progressively more difficult. Three changes are mentioned to illustrate this. In the first place the increasing variety of modern occupations has created a larger field from which selection has to be made. In the second place, modern mechanized production has taken much of the skill of the old craftsman and put it into the machines. [p.5, ed]

In the third place, few occupations …

Education For Parenthood., Zoe Benjamin

Future of Education

It would be absurd to expect that all parents should be perfect; but with adequate facilities for education and training, we could have, in each generation, a steadily increasing number of men and women capable of carrying out their parental responsibilities with wisdom. [p.5]

The author then proceeds to offer advice to parents on assisting in the education of children at various age levels. This includes many topics, from how they spend their leisure time to making sure they meet their psychological needs.

Adult Education In Post-War Australia, Colin Robert Badger

Future of Education

It cannot be denied that we will need more and more adult education in post-war Australia. There are many encouraging signs that the people of Australia are becoming aware of the deficiencies of their educational systems, and that reform and reconstruction, long overdue, will be bought about by the steady pressure of public opinion. There is a strong demand for a general raising of the school leaving age, for revised and better curricula, for better professional training for teachers, and for far more liberal provision of school buildings and equipment. And there is, fortunately, an increasingly strong demand for adult …

Acer 1943-1944 Annual Report, Australian Council For Educational Research (Acer)

ACER Annual Reports

No abstract provided.