VICTORIA EDUCATION SYSTEM

Date:  25 October 2007     Day:  Thursday     
Time:   9.00 am.  -  1.00 pm

Title :  Victoria Education System by  Assoc Prof  Lenn Cairns

Reported by: Rahinun Mohd Noor

In the class, before the lecture starts....

Australian system of education is managed by different states that have full authority on the schools under their control. One of the longest established system from the nine regions is Victoria Education System. The state schools are under the administration of the Minister Department of Education and Early Childhood Development, which pour the grants from the Federal Government. So the running of the school is done by the Principals without being interrupted by any others. 

The schools system starts with Pre-School which consist students at the age of 4 years. The second stage in school is Primary Education which starts at the age of 5 in the Preparation year. After that education starts in Year 1 until Year 6, that is from age 6 years to 11 years old.  Then Secondary Education starts from Year 7 until 10 ( 15 years old). The education which starts from Pre-School until Year 7 is a compulsory Education that Children of Australia has to undergone.

Through the development, some state schools group together as cluster of their own, where they create their own specialties in the field of innovations and excellent, in the area. This school of clusters is group together (10 to 12 schools) under one Regional Director, and assisted by Senior Education Officer (SEO), doing the mentoring to the Principals that were grouped together. The SEO is also known as “Educator” that assists in a few important fields such as global budget, besides resources, innovations and excellent practices

After getting a some knowledge, about Victoria Educational System, in Australia, our next project is to make a school review during mentor-shadowing. Each an everyone of us, will be paired up, and we are schedule to make a school visit every once a week . We are given ten school for mentor shadowing program. When we visit the schools given to us, we are ask to see the principal's job done every day. We just observe what ever the principal do and gather all the management tasks and leadership style. Then we have to  write in the report later. Besides we are suppose to review some of the innovations done by the school, that lead to the excellent of the school. 

Mr Zanal assisting the group to log on.....

In the afternoon we were brought to the Computer Lab form 2.00 pm to 3.00 pm for IT Orientation and Logging, that is given by Mr David Solly.