Comforting news for parents in the national capital this week with a deep and meaningful inquiry into the extent of bullying in the city’s schools exonerating the city’s students and teachers finding the education sector no better or worse than the general community as far as bullying and violence goes.
Conducted by the local Government’s Standing Committee on Education, Employment and Youth Affairs, the inquiry found bullying and violence to be ‘not frequent’ as local school managements were managing the issue managerially.
“Teachers are working hard to reduce bullying and violence in our schools,” the Chair of the Standing Committee said.
“There needs to be ongoing consideration of how social and emotional learning programs are operated in ACT schools.”
PS-ssssst! agrees, but raises a much more interesting question.
Why does a Standing Committee need a Chair?
Shared plurals
To the fiscally fascinating and potentially profitable PS News Finance & Superannuation section now in which an article probes profoundly into the impact falling interest rates might have on PS News’s rich readers’ shareholdings.
Rejoicing under the headline: Shared interest: How low interest rates will impact on share portfolios the article dissects a pocketful of possibilities and probabilities in its wise commentary, but raises something unsurprisingly unrelated for PS-sssst!
If more than one hero are heroes, and more than one potato are potatoes, why is it that more than one portfolio are portfolios? Where is the ‘es’ ending?
In a possibly perceptive prediction, could one say portfolio has been short changed
Acronymically active
Attempted humour in the wake of last week’s revelation that the New Zealand Public Service so appropriately names its tender website GETS (Government Electronic Tender Service) with at least one non-NZ reader seeing the value in Aussie acronymsters picking up the ball and running with it.
“Advancing the need to centralize all public sector data and information could be left to GRAB (Government Records and Archives Bureau),” our anonymous correspondent corresponded with.
“And, as technology develops, GAIN could become our Government Artificial Intelligence Network!”
Great work Anon! Congratulations to You-Know-Who-You-Are!
Careering up the ladder
To Rama’s generous, gratuitous and gratis giveaway now where two lucky readers have the good fortune to win a copy each of the management guide Career Conversations by Greg Smith, simply by knowing the practical formula for ensuring competitive employers don’t hire valued staff members.
The formula Rama was after is to ‘retain talent with a proactive approach to employee development because when employees are happy at work, the energy and creativity they possess is virtually limitless’ and the first correct answers to emerge from the PS News Barrel of Booty belonged to Rosemary F from Stafford Heights in Queensland and Barb B from the Australian Taxation Office.
Congratulations to Rosemary and Barb, and thanks to all who took part. The prize books will be on the way in a popular Ps-sssst! Pack soon.
For another chance to become a winner by rummaging through Rama’s repository of riches, simply follow this link to this week’s giveaway and give it a go.
Good luck to all who do!
Coming or going?
And finally, we all know how the ‘ins and outs’ of public service can be a strain at times so it’s heartening to hear that even those at the top find the going going forwards and back.
Announcing that Australia’s and New Zealand’s organ donation organisers had linked up to merge their kidney exchange programs to become the Australian and New Zealand Paired Kidney Exchange (ANZKX) one of the delighted Ministers was quoted thus:
“Expanding the number of pairs enrolled in the ANZKX Program increases the chance of finding a match with another incompatible pair,” the Minister said.
Well, perhaps we have to start somewhere.
Hopefully finding ‘compatible’ pairs will come about as the program settles in
Till next week…..
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