Unprecedented year of unity between sectors

EducationHQ News Team

By EducationHQ News Team
Published December 28, 2019

For Andrew Pierpoint, president of the Australian Secondary Principals’ Association (ASPA), 2019 will be remembered for an unprecedented show of unity between the education sectors.

ASPA president Andrew Pierpoint hopes that next year will see more meaningful dialogue around principal autonomy.

“We led a multi-sector … meeting earlier in the year and the basic theme around it was around increasing the ...

This story appeared in the December 2019 edition of Australian Teacher Magazine.

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