long with long-time advocates for improving Tasmania's educational outcomes, Saul Eslake, Michael Rowan, we are co-ordinating an Open Letter to the incoming Tasmanian Government calling for an independent Inquiry into the Tasmanian Education System.
Please read and consider signing: openletter.earth/call-for-an-inquiry-into-the-tasmanian-education-system-45369f23
"We call on whoever wins the upcoming 23 March 2024 election and forms the next Tasmanian Government to commission an independent inquiry into the effectiveness of the Tasmanian Education System and its functions, within the first 100 days of assuming office.
We believe the outcome of an independent inquiry will provide the Government of the day the opportunity to reform the Tasmanian Education System as needed to ensure that young Tasmanians benefit from education at least to the same extent as their equals elsewhere in Australia.
We acknowledge the good intentions of the current and previous governments to improve educational outcomes for young Tasmanians. But, while there has been significant investment in the education system to this end, there has been little improvement.
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Read the full letter here openletter.earth/call-for-an-inquiry-into-the-tasmanian-education-system-45369f23
About Lisa
Dr Lisa Denny is a Workforce Demographer.
As an independent, consulting systems thinker, Lisa's expertise centres on providing research, analysis and strategic policy advice in relation to the inter-related nature of education and work and the population with a view to achieving long-term, systemic economic and social renewal in the context of population change and other socio-economic scenarios.
Lisa is:
Lisa is a perpetual student. She has a Bachelor of Commerce, Bachelor of Arts (Honours), a Graduate Diploma of Education and a PhD in which she investigated Skill Utilisation in Australia. She is also a qualified secondary teacher of economics and business studies.
She’s an advocate, gardener, ocean lover, dog person and as she has a son with severe and complex learning disabilities, she has been pursuing further education in the science of learning. In 2023, Lisa completed a Graduate Certificate in Educational Studies (Science of Learning) and has previously completed the Language Essentials for Teaching Reading and Spelling (LETRS) course and the Orton Gillingham Dyslexia training course.
As an independent, consulting systems thinker, Lisa's expertise centres on providing research, analysis and strategic policy advice in relation to the inter-related nature of education and work and the population with a view to achieving long-term, systemic economic and social renewal in the context of population change and other socio-economic scenarios.
Lisa is:
- an Adjunct Associate Professor, University of Tasmania.
- a founding member of the Tasmanian 100% Literacy Alliance
- a member of the Expert Panel for the Centre of Population, Australian Treasury
- a member of the Lifting Literacy Outcomes Monitoring Group
- a Board Director, Tasmanian Council of Social Service (TasCOSS)
Lisa is a perpetual student. She has a Bachelor of Commerce, Bachelor of Arts (Honours), a Graduate Diploma of Education and a PhD in which she investigated Skill Utilisation in Australia. She is also a qualified secondary teacher of economics and business studies.
She’s an advocate, gardener, ocean lover, dog person and as she has a son with severe and complex learning disabilities, she has been pursuing further education in the science of learning. In 2023, Lisa completed a Graduate Certificate in Educational Studies (Science of Learning) and has previously completed the Language Essentials for Teaching Reading and Spelling (LETRS) course and the Orton Gillingham Dyslexia training course.