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Kevin Donnelly

Dr Kevin Donnelly was formerly the Chief of Staff to Kevin Andrews, federal Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations and a member of the Liberal Party. He was Director of Education Strategies, a Melbourne-based consulting group from 1994-2003, and has now returned as Executive Director. Education Strategies specialises in research, project management and strategic analysis at the senior management and organisational level.

Before establishing Education Strategies, Dr Donnelly taught for 14 years as an English and History teacher in Victorian government and non-government secondary schools. Kevin has published over 200 articles in the daily media and professional journals, appears on radio, both state and national, and writes regularly for The Australian newspaper.

He is the author of Why Our Schools are Failing and an electronic copy of the book can be found at the Menzies
Research Centre's site.

Dr Donnelly's email address is as follows and he welcomes any comments of feedback: kevind@netspace.net.au


Moral compass in the postmodern world
Education - 7/12/2006 - 120 comments
The long march back to reason
Education - 2/11/2006 - 53 comments
Freedom of choice can only make it better
Education - 26/09/2006 - 9 comments
Celebrating our Western tradition
September 2006 Feature - 11/09/2006 - 101 comments
It's all depths and deconstruction
Education - 3/08/2006 - 39 comments
Outcomes we can do without
Education - 11/07/2006 - 22 comments
Weird and wacky but not terribly scientific
Education - 22/05/2006 - 24 comments
The muffled canon
Education - 5/05/2006 - 24 comments
Moral outrage selective
Education - 7/04/2006 - 59 comments
No need to back pointless studies
Education - 13/03/2006 - 23 comments
Sciences in subjective mode
Education - 15/02/2006 - 15 comments
Why our greatest story is just not being told
Education - 30/01/2006 - 41 comments
Perils of multicultural education
Education - 6/01/2006 - 31 comments
An unsound approach to teaching
Education - 30/11/2005 - 32 comments
Reform ideal for all classes
Education - 15/11/2005 - 8 comments
Unhelpful for students and for teachers
Education - 27/10/2005 - 5 comments
Top marks to syllabus road maps
Education - 7/10/2005 - 13 comments
Report card fails postmodern student assessments
Education - 23/09/2005 - 9 comments
Campaign out of class
Education - 6/09/2005 - 19 comments
Don't say the F-word!
Education - 18/08/2005 - 10 comments
Teach the simple joys of reading
Education - 1/08/2005 - 4 comments
Time to go, Petro
Domestic Politics - 23/06/2005 - 40 comments
The gender agenda
Education - 17/06/2005 - 64 comments
Values, education and the politicians
Education - 7/06/2005 - 21 comments
Outcomes option flawed
Education - 18/05/2005 - 15 comments
Give academic excellence a sporting chance
Education - 7/04/2005 - 7 comments
Teaching the teachers
Education - 9/03/2005 - 10 comments
Cannon fodder of the culture wars
Education - 11/02/2005 - 87 comments
PISA and TIMSS are like apples and oranges
Education - 1/02/2005 - 2 comments
Education: the way forward
Education - 7/01/2005 - 26 comments
How we lost the plot in reading
Education - 22/11/2004 - 5 comments
ALP schools policy: engaging in the politics of envy
Education - 28/09/2004
Our education system is lacking competitive assessment
Education - 12/08/2004
What do we need to make Victorian government schools more successful?
Education - 29/07/2004
Beware education's gender agenda - it's not just for Play School
Education - 15/06/2004
There's no doubt that education standards are falling - we need to act
Education - 7/05/2004 - 1 comment
Teachers unions' policy is not helping to address falling education standards
Education - 29/01/2004
The teaching system needs more than money and smaller classes
Education - 25/09/2003
Is there a crisis in boys' education?
Education - 8/09/2003
Developing social capital is a cause that conservatives take seriously
August 2003 Feature - 11/08/2003
What will it take to get a national curriculum off the ground this time?
Education - 31/07/2003
Why is Labor no longer moved by working-class priorities in education?
Education - 15/07/2003
Teachers should not be permitted to spread propaganda in the classroom
Education - 3/04/2003
How mass education is lowering the standard of our universities
Education - 22/01/2003
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