House of Representatives Committees

Standing Committee on Education and Training

Committee activities (inquiries and reports)

Boys: Getting it right

On Monday 21 October 2002 the Education and Training Committee tabled its report on the education of boys.

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Full Report (PDF 664KB)

Individual Chapters:
Front Pages (PDF 68KB) Contents, Foreword, Membership of the Committee, Terms of Reference, List of Abbreviations, Executive Summary, List of Recommendations
Chapter 1 (PDF 19KB) Introduction
Chapter 2 (PDF 117KB) Stating the case: School and post-school outcomes
Chapter 3 (PDF 95KB) Putting it in context: Labour market, social and policy change
Chapter 4 (PDF 74KB) Putting it into practice: Curriculum and pedagogy
Chapter 5 (PDF 110KB) Building strong foundations: Literacy and numeracy
Chapter 6 (PDF 122KB) Making the connections: Schools, teachers and role models
Chapter 7 (PDF 14KB) Conclusion
Appendix A (PDF 12KB) Conduct of the inquiry
Appendix B (PDF 21KB) Submissions
Appendix C (PDF 33KB) Exhibits
Appendix D (PDF 32KB) Witnesses
Appendix E (PDF 28KB) Literacy and numeracy benchmark data
Appendix F (PDF 19KB) National goals for schooling
Appendix G (PDF 17KB) References
Index (PDF 12KB)

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