Melbourne Graduate School of Education Senior Secondary Certificates Project

This section contains a list of past and upcoming events related to the project.

Past Events

VCAA Roundtable Discussion on Senior Secondary Certification in Victoria

In March 2011, the project team organised a roundtable discussion with past and present key Victorian education policy personnel and stakeholders.

Participants included:

These participants were provided with a copy of a full and abridged version of an historical narrative of senior secondary certification in Victoria that had been prepared by the project team. The paper identified four over-arching historical phases, the last of which is still evolving: the University Award, 1856-1964; Massification and Diversification, 1965-1983; Developing Commonality: VCE and the Blackburn Era, 1983-1992; and Economising Certification, Personalising Pathways: 1992-present. These papers and phases formed the basis of the discussion at the roundtable discussion.

A detailed summary of the historical phases illuminated in the papers can be found in the Victorian section of the Historical contexts page on this website.

Senior Secondary Certification: What Might the Past Tell Us About The Future?

In June 2011, Jack Keating and Glenn Savage gave a presentation based on the extensive historical analysis conducted in the first year of the project to the Queensland Studies Authority at their ‘Shaping Future Directions Conference'. A copy of the slides from the presentation is available here.

Relative Equities in the Education Market: Flexible Imaginings, Contrasting Experiences

Similarly drawing on the historical analysis component as well as his PhD thesis, Glenn Savage presented at the British Educational Research Association Conference in September 2011.