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Whether you are just starting out on your professional journey, pursuing your own personal and professional interests, or in the wonderful position of supporting colleagues in their professional learning, you should seriously consider becoming a personal or institutional member of ACEL.

ACEL is the relevant, influential and vibrant professional association for all educational leaders and the education community.

ACEL taps into the collective and individual expertise of its members, involving them in continuing dialogue and activities to improve educational leadership theory and practice.  ACEL also provides members with avenues to publish, discuss, explore and synthesise issues and ideas on educational leadership theory and practice. ACEL has a multidimensional view of membership from senior level educators to Generation X, Y, and Next.  As a result membership continues to increase, broaden and deepen. 

ACEL is an active, dynamic organisation that constantly creates new ways for members to connect with other members and educational colleagues within Australia and throughout the world. ACEL actively createsspaces where educational leaders go to be informed, nurtured, stretched, affirmed, challenged; where they see future possibilities and key professional links to people and ideas.



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ACEL FastNews

NSW - Education Minister Verity Firth has apologised for mistakenly announcing that over 50,000 unflued gas heaters in schools will be replaced before the cabinet gave approval. The Premier has now approved replacing them all.

NATIONAL - Education Minister Simon Crean has said he plans to revamp the BER program by implementing local consultative committees to advise and control what is built, to ensure the time of principals is not wasted.

NSW - The Coalition's spokesman on education, Christopher Pyne, has said the collapse of a steel shade structure at Kooringal Public School is a metaphor for the problems in the BER program.

NATIONAL - The Australian Education Union has released an online advertisement that contends that an Abbott government would take Australian education 'backwards, not forwards'.

NATIONAL - This article explains how the Coalition and Gillard government both made errors on the number of students eligible for the education tax rebate.

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