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Review Into Agricultural Education and Training in New South Wales Report

出版	New South Wales. Department of Education and Communities, 2013
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=DBzIjwEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋

This Review was initiated because of concern about the shortage of young people choosing careers in agriculture. It follows parliamentary enquiries federally and in Victoria, and looks specifically at the\nsituation in New South Wales. However, it can be expected that at least some of the matters raised have application nationally. There needed to be a context for the Report and so a vision statement was drafted that assumed that the agriculture sector was ambitious and wanted to capitalise on the opportunities created by global food security and developments in Asia. The Review was then able to focus on improvements across the scope of the investigation. Several factors became key components of the Review : The lack of awareness by students about food and fibre, The perceptions about agriculture and the opportunities therein. The importance of early engagement\nwith students about key issues, concerns about the teaching of science and therefore agriculture in the primary\nschools, The need for provision of quality teaching and learning materials to schools, The roles to be played by the Primary Industries Education Foundation and the Royal Agricultural Society of New South Wales in education and development, The lack of agriculture in about two thirds of secondary schools, The emerging importance of primary\nindustries in senior high schools, The importance of agriculture as an underpinning discipline study for top students, The key role to be played by agricultural high schools and the need for Lighthouse schools in agriculture, The importance of teachers fully qualified in agriculture, The quality of advice about agricultural careers provided by schools, The importance in that advice of distinguishing between on-farm and off-farm employment opportunities, and using the career website, Career Harvest, to assist that process, The re-establishment of Murrumbidgee College of Agriculture at Yanco, The inadequate training and early employment arrangements for research students, The lack of a workforce strategy in agriculture, The need for industry support in ensuring quality education and training occurs and the Accreditation of people and processes. [Executive summary, ed].