Home > ACE National Conference Speakers ACE National Conference Speakers. Ms Rachel Hunter Deputy Chancellor, Griffith University and former Chair. The history of Inuit relations with the Government of Canada has been a story of negotiation, accommodation and resistance. The relationship has developed around a. During day seven of the Community Managed Mental Health Management and Leadership Program, the focus was on coaching, change and conflict. In the morning, Leadership. Your search on: Community; Returned: 71 result(s) Page 1 of 15; Prev; 1; 2; 3; 4; 5; 6; 7 Get information, facts, and pictures about Canada at Encyclopedia.com. Make research projects and school reports about Canada easy with credible articles from our. Events - Australian College of Educators. Home. > ACE National Conference Speakers. Keynote speakers. Ms Rachel Hunter. Deputy Chancellor, Griffith University and former Chair for the boardof the Australian Children’s Education & Care Quality Authority (ACECQA), NSWRachel Hunter is the Chair of the Board of Children’s Health Queensland Hospital and Health Services and the former Chair of the Australian Children’s Education and Care Quality Authority (ACECQA). She was formerly the Chair of QCOMP and of Legal Aid Queensland; and Deputy- Chair of the Queensland Performing Arts Trust Board. Rachel was a Governor- in- Council appointee on Griffith University Council 2. She was elected as the Deputy Chancellor in October 2. Rachel has an acute interest in social justice, and the role government plays in this. Rachel is presenting a paper on: The best possible start: Why investment in quality early childhood education and care matters. Investment in quality early childhood education and care is an investment in a child’s future, and ultimately, in the productivity and prosperity of our nation. With more and more children spending the majority of their waking hours in some form of child care, the quality of services, educators, and learning experiences is of acute importance. Data and information reported by the Australian Children’s Education and Care Authority (ACECQA) provides invaluable insight for families, educators (in education and care and schooling), and policy makers into the current state of quality in over 1. The child care sector provides a vital starting point for many children in the continuum of education. This has implications for their transition to schooling. Increasingly schools are investing in relationships with children’s education and care services, and in developing knowledge of the reforms in the sector. Partnerships and stronger relationships between the two sectors–children’s education and care and schooling– will ensure children continue to thrive as learners, and capitalise on the best possible start. Professor Diane Mayer, MACEDean of Education and Social Work, University of Sydney, NSWDiane Mayer is Dean of Education and Social Work at the University of Sydney. She has previously held leadership positions at Victoria University, Deakin University, the University of California at Berkeley and The University of Queensland. Her research focuses on teacher education and beginning teaching, examining issues associated with the policy and practice of teacher education and induction into the profession. She is lead CI on an ARC funded project . Her research and scholarship has produced monographs, book chapters, articles in international refereed journals, research reports and commissioned papers, and invited keynotes in Australia, New Zealand, Belgium, USA, Taiwan, Malaysia, Japan, the UK and China, plus numerous conference papers. She has been editor of the Routledge journal, Teaching Education for 1. I wish to share with you the heartache that we, the physicians and nurses, are feeling at Whitehorse General Hospital. Last Thursday, June 2, I was told. Canada's Children and Youth as a Source of Global, Competitive Advantage. Canada must participate in an increasingly competitive world. Countries like India and China. Secrets of the Top 100 Agents now in it's second year, is a must attend event for real estate agents and principals wanting to learn techniques and strategies to. Di is presenting a paper on: The power of teachers in building the world to which we aspire: Breaking open the . She will first examine current global policy contexts and the 'distortion and misuse of research' (Zeichner & Conklin, 2. Policies linked to claims for increasing teacher quality that are being shared and borrowed across nations will be examined, especially those which threaten to curtail the professionalism of teachers and teacher educators. Di will then draw on current Australian research to understand the effectiveness of teacher education and beginning teaching as the basis for thinking about changes and challenges for positioning the teaching profession as taking a lead in our professional accountability. Ms Megan Mitchell. National Children’s Commissioner, The Australian Humans Rights Commission, NSWMegan Mitchell commenced her term as the first National Children’s Commissioner in March 2. Her role focuses on the rights and interests of children, and the laws, policies and programs that affect them. Megan has extensive experience in issues facing children and young people, with practical expertise in education, child protection, foster and kinship care, juvenile justice, children’s services, child care, disabilities, and early intervention and prevention services. Megan’s previous roles include NSW Commissioner for Children and Young People, Executive Director of the ACT Office for Children, Youth and Family Support, Executive Director for Out- of- Home Care in the NSW Department of Community Services and CEO of the Australian Council of Social Service. Megan is presenting a paper at the Gala Dinner on: Teaching human rights: Transforming classrooms and changing the world. In a rapidly changing and globalising world, a key challenge for educators is empowering students to become active and informed global citizens. Megan will explore how Australian educators are at the forefront of creating a just and equitable society. Addressing the complex social, political and moral dilemmas that confront our society can be challenging in the classroom context. However, human rights education provides a platform for educators to meaningfully engage with children and young people about these local and global issues. Human rights education means teaching about human rights, using human rights pedagogies, for achieving human rights outcomes. Megan will speak about methods for engaging students of all ages with human rights ideas and principles by examining education resources developed by the Australian Human Rights Commission. Professor Peter Noonan. Tertiary Education Policy and a Professorial Fellow at Mitchell Institute at Victoria University, VICPeter Noonan is an Honorary Senior Fellow in the Melbourne Graduate School of Education in the LH Martin Institute for Tertiary Education Leadership. Description: Madison Who's Who is more than a registry of accomplished individuals. We provide a forum for executives and professionals to introduce themselves to one. LYATSKY GEOSCIENCE RESEARCH & CONSULTING LTD. Since 2. 10. 4 he has undertaken highly influential work and is a frequent media commentator on the financing of higher education and VET and tertiary education generally. Peter has played a major role in shaping policy in VET, Higher and Post Compulsory Education in Australia for over 2. He was a member of the 2. Expert Panel for the Review of Australian Higher Education (Bradley Review) and is a former adviser to the national Higher Education Minister for Higher Education. In 2. 01. 0 he undertook a review of Post Secondary Education and Training for the Queensland State Government. Peter was awarded the Houghton prize in education in 1. He was also the recipient of a Fullbright Award to the US in 1. Peter is presenting a paper on: A model for a new financing framework for Tertiary Education in Australia. Tertiary education in Australia is currently in a state of considerable policy uncertainty in both the higher education and Vocational Education and Training (VET) sectors. In both sectors there has been a failure to develop and implement policies to address weaknesses in current policy settings or to consider a more coherent and integrated approach to tertiary education policy across the sectors as recommended in the 2. Review of Australian of Australian Higher Education (Bradley Review). Drawing on a body of research undertaken by the Mitchell Institute, Peter will argue for the need to increase participation and attainment rates in tertiary education, assess current policy settings within and across the higher education and VET sectors with a particular emphasis on funding. He will also identify the weaknesses in current policy settings and propose a new framework for financing tertiary education. Ms Jan Owen, AMCEO Foundation for Young Australians (FYA), VICJan Owen is a highly regarded social entrepreneur, innovator, influencer and author who has spent the past 2. Australia's youth, social enterprise and innovation sectors. In 2. 01. 2 she was named Australia's inaugural Australian Financial Review and Westpac Woman of Influence; In 2. Doctor of Letters (honoris causa) from the University of Sydney; and was awarded membership to the Order of Australia in 2. Jan is the author of Every Childhood Lasts a Lifetime (1. The Future Chasers (2. Jan is the CEO of the Foundation for Young Australians and YLab, the global youth futures lab. Her lifelong mission is to unleash the potential of young people to lead positive change in the world. Jan is presenting a paper on: The New Work Order. The workplace, as we know it, isn’t long for this world. Across the globe, three economic forces; globalisation, automation and collaboration are driving an unprecedented transformation. So how can we best prepare for the new work order to come? Jan takes a look at the rapidly changing work- scape, and how it will impact the next generation of young workers. Most vitally, she outlines the action that’s urgently needed to give future workers the skills to work the jobs of the future, not the past. Emeritus Professor Colin Power AM, FACEUniversity of Queensland. Chair of the Commonwealth Consortium for Education. Colin Power is an Adjunct Professor at the University of Queensland and Chair of the Commonwealth Consortium for Education. Formerly Professor of Education at Flinders University, he served as Deputy Director- General of UNESCO and Assistant Director- General for Education from 1. As such, he played a key role in international efforts to improve access to, and the quality of, education at all levels. In addressing this issue, Colin will provide an international perspective on the challenges to be faced, how education systems are responding to these challenges and examines why some are more effective in empowering learners, communities and nations than others. He argues that providing quality education for all throughout life is the key to building a better world, and for a vision of education that builds on the work of the International Commission on Education for the 2. Whitehorse General Hospital is in crisis. Dr. David Storey. Friday June 1. 0, 2. COMMENTARY I wish to share with you the heartache that we, the physicians and nurses, are feeling at Whitehorse General Hospital. Last Thursday, June 2, I was told that there were no beds in the hospital - something we have been used to for a very long time now - and that all the holding areas for short- stay were filled with admitted patients apart from one bed and that we had to cancel my mastectomy for cancer the next day and my gallbladder operation for chronic pain because there was nowhere to put them and nowhere to hold them waiting for surgery. I was also told that there were no recovery room nurses and that we would have to wait between cases to recover each patient before proceeding to the next and that even for pre- operative endoscopes we had no room to hold more than one at a time so there would be long delays between cases. You can imagine what kind of a day Friday was. I started practice in the Yukon in 1. We had a psychiatric ward as well as medical and surgical wards and a pediatrics ward. We had two full- time orderlies. At any given time we had the two general surgeons working, as we do now. I believe there were in the neighbourhood of 1. I don’t recall many, if any, policy analysts, planners or program directors. The nurses and doctors, I believe, at that time ran an exemplary show. We fast- forward 4. We often have no recovery room staff because we lack permanent staff. We have a difficult time finding people to work in our ICU and in our emergency room. Our clinical nurse leaders and managers are literally pulling their hair out to find people to work, to find beds for patients and to arrange transfers to alternative locations. I have literally seen our wonderful clinical nurse leaders crying out of exasperation. No matter how hard they try we seem stymied. A year and a half ago I had said there was a crisis and it had to be dealt with - not next year but tomorrow. A year and a half has passed and the promises and platitudes sound exactly the same. Next week we have no recovery room nurses. We have extraordinarily poor funding for OR instrument replacement and purchase. We are destined to be cancelling more and more surgeries. Even our visiting specialists are having cases cancelled. The last orthopedic surgeon, I believe, had at least one total- knee replacement surgery cancelled for lack of beds. We have been begging for a colonoscopy suite to get colonoscopies out of our operating room now that we have over, I believe, 8. There seems to be no solid plan but simply promises to do something about it. The new addition at the hospital is not going to give us a significant number of hospital beds for acute care and post- surgical care. Thus we have only 1. At present, chronic and palliative care patients are using up most of our beds. I’m not saying they shouldn’t have beds, but I fail to understand, for example, why the Thomson Centre can’t be reconfigured to place palliative and chronic patients. We would give up our office space tomorrow. I’m told that the renovations cost too much money, but surely those rooms, if adequate for hospital planners, program directors and policy analysts, should be fit for a dying patient without significant additional risk. The bottom line of all this, of course, is “no money.” I think most of us would be willing to pay more tax should that be necessary to have a safe and solid facility. So far, all the promises seem lame. I understand that the soil has been turned at Whistle Bend but little more. Our need is now and our need is critical. Any of you who can lobby the powers that be - and I can’t actually figure out who they are - please help us to procure enough funds and room to deal with our problem over the next few months, not just the next few years. This letter is out of frustration just from one surgeon and does not represent the Yukon Medical Association, hospital committees or board, but I believe that it does beg for the wants and needs of all our nurses, all our doctors and all the worker bees in this hospital who are involved with patient care, as well as all Yukoners. Are there risks to patients? I don’t believe our leaders have any idea how much. Dr. David Storey is a longtime surgeon at Whitehorse General Hospital.
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