The Ministerial Council on Education, Employment, Training and Youth Affairs (MCEETYA) agreed to the release of a draft revision of the 1989 Hobart Declaration on Schooling which set out National Goals for Schooling in Australia. This current document, published in April 1998, is a consultation paper. The consultation process lasts for six months.

The www site of the Australian Curriculum Studies Association. This resource provides details of the activities, journal, research projects, publications and policies of the association. There are also discussion lists for example on Outcome Based Education, National Curriculum Issues, Student Participation in the Curriculum.

A full text, peer-reviewed scholarly electronic journal operating as a listserv under the name CANJEDADPOL-L at the University of Manitoba, Faculty of Education. The Journal seeks to publish thoughtful work that raises important questions and promotes debate on problems of educational practice and policy. The site can be accessed via the URL below, or subscibers can send mail to listproc@cc.umanitoba.ca. The journal takes an interdisciplinary approach to the study of education, and has a Canadian focus.

Contains information about the aims and objectives of the Department for Education and Employment in the UK. There are sections for schools, for parents, and for employers. Provides the texts of consultation papers (including The Religious Character of Schools (Designation Procedure) Regulations 1998, The Designation of Schools having a Religious Character Order 1999). Also includes the performance tables from 1994 to date for secondary schools (based on GCSE / GCE and A/ AS results) also details for the 16-18 tables (includes GNVQ's).

A component of the www site of The Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory (NWREL) dealing with school reform in the North Western states of the USA (related to the Comprehensive School Reform Demonstration (CSRD) program. The Catalog of School Reform Models with information on 26 entire-school, or whole-school, reform models and 18 skill- and content-based models is available (in HTML and postscript forms) is available. The resource includes details of the School Change Collaborative (SCC) and their investigation into Learning Communities in Schools with a Story Investigation Approach.

The Office for Standards in Education (OFSTED) is a non-ministerial government department independent from the Department for Education in the UK. OFSTED's remit is to inspect, report on and improve standards of achievement and quality of education through regular independent inspection, public reporting and informed advice. They provide a four yearly inspection of state funded schools in the UK, the reports of which are available for browsing. The reports are organised by type of school (nursery, primary, junior, secondary and special) and from there they are organised by Local Education Authority areas. The reports should be made available within 12 weeks of the inspection. The format of the reports requires an adobe acrobat reader - this can be freely downloaded from the site.

Pathways to School Improvement addresses school improvement issues about students, educators, content, methods, and environment. Critical issues and other resources under each of these areas contains summaries of best practice and research, descriptions of schools that have successfully addressed the issue, and collections of materials to support change. The site is maintained by the North Central Regional Educational Laboratory (NCREL) in the United States. NCREL are a nonprofit agency funded mainly by several governemnt contracts, including the U.S. Dept. of Education's Regional Educational Laboratory contract. Their mission is to ensure that the results of educational research reach schools and classrooms. This is a US oriented site but many of the issues span a wider interest.

This paper, published on the www site of the Scottish Consultative Council on the Curriculum has grown out of a review of personal and social education conducted in 94/95 by the Scottish Consultative Council on the Curriculum and the Scottish Office Education Department. This paper, published in 1995, points up a number of issues that the authors consider merit particular attention.

The International Electronic Journal for Leadership in Learning (IEJLL) is produced at the Faculty of Education, University of Calgary. It is a refereed electronic journal, which began in 1997, and is intended for a broad audience of persons interested in leadership in learning. It began in 1997. The journal archives contain articles such as: Official Perspectives of Some Australian Fundamentalist Schools, 2(5); Spirituality and the Principalship: Leadership for the New Millennium, 3(11); Emotional Intelligence and Student Behaviour, 1(2). The IEJLL, together with the Change Agency Listserver make up the Change Agency Network.

The web site of the Total Quality Partnership - a consultancy specialising in areas such as Resource Deployment, Process Assurance, Leadership Development, Strategic Planning, Process Improvement. The site contains a paper "The Re-invention of Education: An analysis of the application of Total Quality in US and UK Education" which applies the principles of TQP to education and has some details of notable schools which have applied TQ methods. Also on the site is a "Tool of the Week" explanation of one improvement technique.