Education Ambassadors | Tasmania

Education Ambassadors is a voluntary, community based organization encouraging all young people in Tasmania to dream big and stay at school to get the skills and knowledge to realize their dreams. The Ambassadors are community leaders of all kinds who stand up for the importance of education for all our young people, in all communities, and for the State as a whole. We are committed to encouraging evidence-informed, open, respectful, and non-partisan discussion of the current challenges facing education in the State.

For personal as well as other reasons I have wound up the Education Ambassadors project. I am grateful for the support of those who were willing to be patrons of the organisation, and ambassadors, especially for their championing the simple idea that all of Tasmania’s young people should have access to a full 12 years of education.

I will continue to argue the case for reforming Tasmania’s education system, and I would welcome the continued support of all who took part in Education Ambassadors, but I accept that even if just by association with me, the Patrons and Ambassadors might unwillingly be engaged in the controversy that attends the most obviously needed reform of senior secondary education in our state – the end of the separate high school and college system.

Accordingly I have amended this site to remove the names of the Patrons and the Ambassadors, while leaving the contributions made by the persons whose thoughts you may read below. Any views expressed on this site in the future, as in the past, should be taken to be the views of the authors alone, and not be attributed to others.

Michael Rowan

Welcome

Become an Ambassador

We would be delighted if you were interested in becoming an Ambassador too.

The duties are light – to keep up with developments in education in Tasmania, for example, by visiting this blog when there is something new to read; to be a champion in your community for education and young people’s aspirations for a better future; and to share your stories with us to add to the blog so others can learn from your activities and successes. The rewards will be an increased understanding of the importance of education in the community, and stronger community support for increasing young people’s educational achievements.

To contact us expressing your interest in becoming an Education Ambassador please click on the button below and send us an email with your name, position (if appropriate), your contact details and anything else you would to tell us about yourself and your interest in education.

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Contribute to this blog

Education Ambassadors please send us your stories! We started this blog because we want to keep in touch with you all without bombarding everyone’s email every day. It will keep up the momentum of the Education Ambassadors project if we have regular updates posted on the blog about what you are doing, thinking, seeing and achieving. So click on the button below to send us an email and attach your news so we can all celebrate your success. (But of course, please do not include any material, including photos, which is copyright unless you have permission to publish.)

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Education Ambassadors are community leaders who stand up for the importance of education for all our young people, in all communities, and for the State as a whole. We are committed to encouraging evidence-informed, open, respectful, and non-partisan discussion of the current challenges facing education in the State. We encourage all young people in Tasmania to dream big and stay at school to get the skills and knowledge to realize their dreams. And we will be successful when many more students complete their year 12 certificate, and go on to do the thousand different things that will shape a better future for Tasmania.