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- Subscribe by Email To assist with the management of syllabus development for Vocational Education and Training in 2009-2010, the Office of the Board of Studies is updating its register of curriculum writers. This register will be used to select writers to undertake tasks at various stages of the year.
Official Notice - Call for Expressions of Interest for Members of Examination Committees and Assessors
BOS 25/09
Expressions of interest are invited from suitably qualified teachers and academics who wish to participate in the development of the 2010 Higher School Certificate examinations and School Certificate tests as a member of an examination committee or assessor. The development of the examinations will commence in Term 4 2009 and will continue to about July 2010. Assessing takes one day and occurs usually in Term 1.
Successful applicants receive an honorarium and travel expenses.
Applications for committee member must be submitted no later than Friday 4 September 2009 and for assessor no later than Friday 30 October.
Further information and application forms are available from the Board of Studies website or by contacting Beverley Gale by email at tdapplications@bos.nsw.edu.au or by phone on 9367 8371.
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To assist with the development of syllabuses in Chinese (Mandarin), Japanese, Indonesian and Korean for Heritage Language speakers at the senior secondary level, the Office of the Board of Studies is creating a register of curriculum writers for tasks at various stages of the syllabus development process. Depending on their current employment, selected writers will be contracted or deployed (subject to employer's approval) to undertake the writing tasks.
Expressions of interest for inclusion on the register are particularly sought from people with advanced proficiency, skills, experience and/or expertise in the writing of either Chinese (Mandarin), Japanese, Indonesian or Korean curriculum materials.
The Board Bulletin Digest No. 2 2009 will be delivered to schools this week. This issue contains an overview of the new online HSC syllabus and assessment landing page, with a print index of all news articles, Official Notices and resources that have appeared on the Board's website during Term 2.
Download the PDF version of Board Bulletin Digest No. 2 2009 (PDF, 300KB).
For an index of archived issues, visit Board Bulletin Digests.
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Times change, the way we communicate changes, and the Board Bulletin is changing too.
In schools this week is the first Board Bulletin Digest - a print index of all the articles, Official Notices and resources that have appeared online in Term 1.
On the front page is a reminder of just how important it now is to subscribe to the Board's email news alert service.
Email subscription to Board news is fast, it's easy and it won't overload your inbox. Thousands of teachers, students, parents and others are already subscribed to ensure they don't miss out on important news and resources.
Unlike some email subscriptions, the Board's news alert service is quick and simple. You won't be asked for your home address, or your date of birth - just to enter your email address (here on the right of this article) and then to check for a confirmation message in your inbox and click on the verifying link.
Currently, as an extra incentive to sign up, the Board has a number of double passes to the Sydney Morning Herald HSC and Careers Expo to give away to new email subscribers. If you are already a subscriber why not pass this link on to a student, teacher or parent who might like free tickets to the Expo, as well as Board news from the source?
Questions? Send them to information@bos.nsw.edu.au
To assist with the management of syllabus development for Vocational Education and Training in 2009, the Office of the Board of Studies is updating its register of curriculum writers. This register will be used to select writers to undertake tasks at various stages of the year.
Projects for 2009 require writers with particular expertise in the following areas:
People with expertise in writing syllabuses, support materials, samples or units of work and/or in the conduct of educational research are invited to submit an expression of interest in being on the register.
More information and an expression of interest form are available online.
The expression of interest form should be completed and submitted, along with the required supporting statements and documentation to:
Senior Project Officer, VET
Curriculum Branch
Office of the Board of Studies
GPO Box 5300
SYDNEY NSW 2001
by Friday 20 March 2009.
Syllabus amendments, text lists, exam and assessment changes, new services and support materials - all are published first online here on the Board's website.
The best way to be sure you miss nothing is to subscribe to the Board's email news alerts - see the box to the right of this article.
Email alerts are simple, they're free, and they won't overload your inbox.
It works like this: overnight the alert service checks for new articles published on the Board's website and compiles a single, simple email with direct links to any new items.
Very early the next morning, usually around 4.00am, the email is sent to all subscribers. The message will be waiting for you when you are ready to read it. It takes very little time to open the email, check the links and see if anything is of interest to you or your colleagues.
You will never get more than one email alert from the Board per day, and it will often be less than that.
You can cut down your emails even more by only subscribing to Official Notice alerts (see the box at right). Official Notices are about important Board rules, procedures and syllabus changes. The last Board Bulletin for 2008 reminded schools that from 2009 Official Notices are only published online.
It is very important to have at least one email subscriber in each NSW school who can check for Official Notices and other important information from the Board.
International schools offering the NSW curriculum should also ensure at least one person is subscribed to the email alert service.
As well as the email service, you can get Board news updates at-a-glance by grabbing the Board's RSS feed for your favourite News Reader (see the RSS icons to the right of this article). Read more about the Board's RSS feed.
And if you like your news in quick, short bites and want to see BOS news as it happens, we'll give it to you in Tweets on Twitter.com! Join the principals and teachers who are already following NewsAtBOS
Questions? information@bos.nsw.edu.au
UPDATE: Hundreds of new subscribers have signed up for the Board's email service since the below article was published last week. Many others are now following the NewsAtBOS Twitter feed or reading updates on their own RSS feed. These subscribers won't miss out on new information on the Board's website - will you?
If you're not already a subscriber, read on. If you are, make sure your colleagues and friends know how easy it is to keep up to date with what's new and important from the Board of Studies NSW.
The Board of Studies website is one of the largest and busiest education sites in the world. For anyone in the education community - teachers, principals, parents, students and others - this site contains essential reading.
So how do you keep track of what's new and what's important to you?
1. You can subscribe to the email notification service (see the box to the right of this article). When new items are published you will receive a message in your inbox the following morning containing links that you can follow if you're interested in the content. You will never get more than one email from us per day, sometimes less.
You can cut down your emails even more by only subscribing to Official Notice alerts (see the box at right). Official Notices are about important Board rules, procedures and syllabus changes. The last Board Bulletin for 2008 reminded schools that from 2009 Official Notices are only published online.
2. You can subscribe to an RSS feed in your favourite News Reader (see the RSS icons to the right of this article). Read more about the Board's RSS feed.
and now...
3. Do you like your news in quick, short bites? Want to see BOS news as it happens? Want the choice of updates to your web-enabled mobile phone? Get your updates on Twitter by following NewsAtBOS
The Board of Studies website is one of the largest and busiest education sites in the world. For anyone in the education community - teachers, principals, parents, students and others - this site contains essential reading.
So how do you keep track of what's new and what's important to you?
1. You can subscribe to the email notification service (see the box to the right of this article). When new items are published you will receive a message in your inbox the following morning containing links that you can follow if you're interested in the content. You will never get more than one email from us per day, sometimes less.
You can cut down your emails even more by only subscribing to Official Notice alerts (see the box at right). Official Notices are about important Board rules, procedures and syllabus changes. The last Board Bulletin for 2008 reminded schools that from 2009 Official Notices are only published online.
2. You can subscribe to an RSS feed in your favourite News Reader (see the RSS icons to the right of this article). Read more about the Board's RSS feed.
and now...
3. Do you like your news in quick, short bites? Want to see BOS news as it happens? Want the choice of updates to your web-enabled mobile phone? Get your updates on Twitter by following NewsAtBOS
The Office is seeking expressions of interest for engagement as an Authorised Person to service the southern suburbs of Sydney.
Authorised Persons provide advice and report on applications for home schooling by way of written reports. This follows meetings with applicants and their children or review of submitted documentation by applicants to ensure compliance with the Act and related Guidelines.
The successful applicant for this role will be engaged for a period of up to three years, commencing 1 January 2009 with possibility of three years extension. Remuneration will be on a contracted fee-for-service basis.
The closing date for applications is Friday 17 October 2008.
More information on position of Authorised Person for the purpose of Home Schooling.
