Committee activities (inquiries and reports)

Inquiry into the education of boys

Terms of Reference:

On 21 March 2000 (readopted on 21 March 2002 at the request of the Minister for Education, Science and Training) the Minister for Education, Training and Youth Affairs requested the then Employment, Education and Workplace Relations Committee to:

• inquire into and report on the social, cultural and educational factors affecting the education of boys in Australian schools, particularly in relation to their literacy needs and socialisation skills in the early and middle years of schooling; and

• the strategies which schools have adopted to help address these factors, those strategies which have been successful and scope for their broader implementation or increased effectiveness.

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