Click here to download the communiqué from the recent Talking Heads 100 Forum held in Canberra (PDF file).

ASPA's President and Executive is now seeking your feedback on issues in the Federal sphere to enable it to more accurately and strategically present matters of major concern to government secondary principals across Australia to the Australian Government. Click here to go to the feedback form. This is your opporuntity to influence the issues that ASPA puts as its top priorities for discussions with governments.

5 presentations from the forum have been added to the website page - click here to go to the page. The draft communiqué from the forum is also on this page. A gallery of photos taken by Stefan Kussy at the TH100 Forum, held in Canberra in July, has been added to the website - click here to go the gallery. More information from the forum will be available soon.

“For the sake of our students and our community, Australian secondary schools are desperate to transform themselves from good schools to great schools!” the President of the Australian Secondary Principals’ Association (ASPA), Ms Sheree Vertigan, said today.

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A significant alliance of organisations have joined together to launch a new ongoing 3 year campaign called Fix the Education Bridge.

Click here to download the complete release document (PDF file).

The alliance highlights the education revolution is critical for Australia’s future and simply hasn’t gone far enough, pointing out under current spending by the Federal Government, students are not getting a world class education.

The alliance says there should be a multi billion dollar infrastructure and building program for all government secondary schools across the nation.

The alliance highlights that most people are unaware that 43% of students in Grade 12 now attend a private school. Government schools at this level in our largest capital cities are now in a minority.

One of the spokespeople – Sheree Vertigan (from the Australian Secondary Principals Association) – said billions and billions of dollars of taxpayers’ money will be wasted in the long run with mental health, prison and health costs because we do not offer – at the current time – every student in a government secondary school a world class education.

Australian Bureau of Statistics figures (released in 2010) reveal in the past 10 years the number of students in non-government schools increased 8 times more than the number of students in government schools. ABS figures show that since 1999, the number of students in non-government schools have risen by 208,500 students versus a rise in government school students of 26,200.

ASPA President, Sheree Vertigan, is a member of the Asia Education Foundation's (AEF) Asia Literacy Ambassadors Project Advisory Group. On behalf of the AEF, Sheree would like to invite ASPA members and their schools to be part of the Asia Literacy Ambassadors – Partnering Businesses & Schools project. Click here to download a letter of invitation and a one-page flyer providing more information about the project.

What is the Asia Literacy Ambassadors project?