professional+reading

**Articles are included in each newsletter and can also be sourced via the Newsletter index.** **Major documents are listed below:**
 * Recommended Professional Reading**

**Global Citizenship Education - A Guide for Policy Makers** **2017 - from APCIEU**

**Australia in the Asian Century** **White Paper:** Asia literacy has emerged as a priority area for Australian schools as outlined in the **White paper** - (full version **here** ) **KPMG response** to the White paper


 * Asialink Index **

@http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/28/4/35995145.pdf
 * OECD report – Are students ready for a technology rich world? **

@http://www.mckinsey.com/clientservice/socialsector/resources/pdf/Worlds_School_Systems_Final.pdf
 * McKinsey Report**

Author: Johanna Wyn, The University of Melbourne [] Professor Wyn believes formal education has lost its credibility, unable to offer the flexible styles of learning that young people now demand.
 * Touching the Future : Building skills for life and work**

Author: Kent Anderson &amp; Joseph Lo Bianco @http://www.eastasiaforum.org/2009/09/08/the-language-education-debate-speak-and-ye-shall-find-knowledge/ Languages are back in the news. As part of the national curriculum debate, English is one of the first cabs off the rank and Languages Other Than English are following in the second group. The National Asian Languages and Studies in Schools Program also adds limited funding for the next three years to promoting four targeted languages. Moreover, there is the slow burn of the crisis of language learning at both secondary level, where a pitiful 12 per cent of students who complete secondary schooling take languages in their final exams, and at the tertiary level, where the number of languages taught has fallen from 66 to less than 30 in the past decade. This discourse is taking place against the backdrop of the financial crisis, which only heightens how important languages are in our rapidly and deeply globalised world, where the pension incomes of Australians are tied to the economic fortunes of North Americans, Asians and Europeans. This is what globalisation ultimately means: international dependency of a depth that has never been experienced in human history.
 * The language education debate: Speak, and ye shall find knowledge**