Join Geoffrey Robertson in the nation's capital
Old Parliament House, Canberra, 27-28 March 2009
The future of public education in Australia is at a crossroads. Parents, teachers, principals, policy-makers and academics around the country are pondering how state-run education services should develop in the best interests of our children and future citizens.
The National Public Education Forum provides a unique opportunity to look at the issues, the stakes, the opportunities and the obstacles as some of the country's sharpest minds present honest and informed assessments of what is right and wrong with public education in Australia.
Australian human rights lawyer, academic, author and broadcaster Geoffrey Robertson will deliver the opening session, an acknowledgement of the need to bring this discussion into the widest possible public arena, and to call on our finest thinkers.
The Forum will provide a platform for more than a dozen other key observers, thinkers and practitioners of education to have their say, culminating in a synopsis to be presented by Professor Tony Vinson, one of our leading educational and social researchers who chaired the 2001 Vinson Inquiry into public education in NSW.
The outcome of the National Public Education Forum will be a communique to inform the future development of public education in Australia.