Date: Friday 24 July
Time: 5:00pm – 5:50pm
Location: Fringe Room 2
Format: Panel discussion
Organisation: La Trobe
University
Every Australian child deserves an ambitious education, taught well. That principle is easy to state. Delivering on it, at scale and across a diverse nation, is the challenge that will define the next decade of education reform.
This panel discussion brings together leading Australian and international voices to explore what an ambitious, evidence-informed education reform agenda looks like in practice, and what it will take to build the political consensus to deliver it.
Panel:
- Professor Joanna Barbousas, Pro Vice-Chancellor (Education, Impact and Innovation) and Dean of the School of Education at La Trobe University.
- The Hon. John Brumby AO, Chancellor of La Trobe University, former Premier of Victoria, Victorian Treasurer and Federal Member of Parliament.
- Distinguished Professor of Cognitive Psychology Pamela Snow, Co‑Director of La Trobe University’s Science of Language and Reading (SOLAR) Lab.
- Josh MacAlister MP, UK Parliamentary Under‑Secretary of State for Children and Families (Department for Education)
- Dr Jordana Hunter, Program Director (Education) at McKinnon.
