2008 International Education Leaders' Dialogue

Hosted by Professor Peter Dawkins, Secretary for the Department of Education and Early Childhood Development (DEECD), the 2008 Melbourne Dialogue is an opportunity for key educational leaders from high performing jurisdictions to come together and share their experiences and challenges of school reform.

It is also a great opportunity to meet and network with senior officials from other jurisdictions that are pursuing similar paths to school reform.

The 2006 and 2007 Dialogues highlighted that a great deal of progress has been made in understanding challenges and identifying strategies to achieve large scale reform.

The third and final International Education Leaders’ Dialogue in Melbourne will sharpen the focus on latest policies and strategies proving to be effective, and will concentrate on sustaining progress and positioning jurisdictions for the next phase of reform.

For a downloadable copy of the information available on this site, see the IELD 2008 (PDF - 1.5Mb) brochure.

Participants

Education Leaders from the following jurisdictions will take part in the event: Victoria (host jurisdiction), New South Wales, South Australia, Ontario, England, Wales, Singapore, Hong Kong.

The Dialogue will be facilitated by:

Professor Sir Michael Barber

Adviser to the former Prime Minister, Tony Blair, now head of McKinsey and Company's Global Education Practice.

Professor Michael Fullan

Ontario-based international leader on educational change, Special Adviser on Education to the Premier of Ontario.

Tony Mackay

Melbourne-based international consultant specialising in school and system leadership, improvement and innovation.