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Pages tagged "education"


Damning review of SRE ignored

Posted on Blog by Andrea Leong · December 24, 2017 9:23 PM

Public education should be secular and should favour no religion over another. This principle protects religious students most of all.

My desire to see a fair and appropriate system for religious education in schools was why I watched the recent inquiry into scripture and ethics classes with interest (Science Party policy is to add Ethics to the curriculum and move any SRE classes outside of regular class time).

Two-and-a-half years and $300 million taxpayer dollars later, the inquiry is nearly over. Sorry for not following up on my previous blog posts for so long. At least I didn't stall for as long as the department did. Hah.

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Special Religious Education and Ethics review FOI - February edition

Posted on Blog by Andrea Leong · February 02, 2017 1:12 PM

It's the first of the month, which means it's freedom of information (FOI) request time!

Late last year I made an FOI request to the NSW Department of Education, seeking the status of the Review of Special Religious Education and Special Education in Ethics in NSW government schools. This review was opened for public comment in mid-2015. A costly independent report was commissioned shortly after, and it was received in March 2016. In November, I asked the how the report was coming along. 

It's not.

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We're not finding out about the religious education review this year

Posted on Blog by Andrea Leong · December 22, 2016 12:28 PM

Well, I got my answer. There are currently no plans to release the findings of the review into Special Religious Education and Ethics classes in NSW schools. 

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All I want for Christmas is my FOI request answered

Posted on Blog by Andrea Leong · December 17, 2016 7:57 AM

Just a follow-up on my previous post about my FOI request regarding the Review of Special Religious Education and Special Education in Ethics in NSW government schools. 

SPOILER: the response was unsatisfactory.

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My FOI request about religious education is becoming an unsurprisingly lengthy process

Posted on Blog by Andrea Leong · December 13, 2015 6:30 PM

Remember the Review of Special Religious Education and Special Education in Ethics in NSW government schools? No, no one does, because we haven't heard a thing about it since the middle of last year. So I asked the NSW Department of Education for an update.

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