Current Activities
In Australia, ACER's work and its researchers contribute to the shaping of education policy and discussions around a range of issues pertaining to Australian education, from the role of parents, the role of arts in education, teachers and school leaders, post-school education and training, tertiary students' engagement to public versus private education.
ACER administers a number of high stakes tests in Australia, including the Undergraduate Medicine and Health Sciences Admission Test (UMAT), a requirement for studying medicine in Australia. About 20,000 candidates sit the UMAT each year, seeking entry into medicine or other health science courses including physiotherapy, dentistry, oral health and pharmacy.
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“We set up a certain aim, and put ourselves of our own will into the power of a certain current. Once having done that, we find ourselves committed to usages and customs which we had not before fully known, but from which we cannot depart without giving up the end which we have chosen. But we have no right, therefore, to claim that we are under the yoke of necessity. We might as well say that the man whom we see struggling vainly in the current of Niagara could not have helped jumping in.”
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“If it is to be done well, child-rearing requires, more than most activities of life, a good deal of decentering from one’s own needs and perspectives. Such decentering is relatively easy when a society is stable and when there is an extended, supportive structure that the parent can depend upon.”
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