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Improving school education

The Department of Education, Science and Training helps the Australian Government achieve its overall objective of quality educational outcomes for all students through three distinct but interrelated areas:

High quality policy advice and other support to the Minister, underpinned by capabilities in research, analysis and evaluation, which also informs the policy debate on school education and outcomes for Indigenous Australians.

Efficient national programme management; and

Effective working relationships with state and territory governments, education departments, non-government education authorities, schools, Indigenous education service providers, industry, community groups and other stakeholders.

Eigh quality policy advice and other support to the Minister, underpinned by capabilities in research, analysis and evaluation, which also informs the policy debate on school education and outcomes for Indigenous Australians.

Efficient national programme management; and

Effective working relationships with state and territory governments, education departments, non-government education authorities, schools, Indigenous education service providers, industry, community groups and other stakeholders.

 

School health programs have been part of schooling for most of this century. The health promoting school is a recently developed concept which seeks to provide a multifaceted approach to school health. Will it provide a better framework to assist schools address the health issues of their students? This paper examines the development of the health promoting school and identifies its structural components. It reviews the claims and evidence which have emerged from the school health research literature which focus on primary schools. Findings indicate health gains for primary school students are difficult to assess, and will most likely occur if a well-designed program is implemented which links the curriculum with other health promoting school actions, contains substantial professional development for teachers and is underpinned by a theoretical model. The paper concludes by discussing how improvements can be made in more accurately assessing the effectiveness of the health promoting primary school in improving school health.Online assessment|School Website|Accounting jobs|IT jobs