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About - Goals
The objectives of the Gifted Education Research, Resource
and Information Centre are as follows:
- to foster and conduct research on effective education of gifted and
talented children.
- to act as a focus for the conduct of research related to existing
university initiatives in gifted education, such as the Certificate of
Gifted Education, the Scientia Challenge Program, etc.
- to contract with outside agencies, such as the Department of School
Education, to conduct, on their behalf, research into issues related to
the education and welfare of gifted and talented children.
- to establish a data base of Australian and overseas research and
practice in gifted education, and to disseminate information from this
data base to agencies or individuals through a variety of contractual
arrangements.
- to develop and conduct, on a contractual basis for schools and other
educational agencies, a range of teacher inservice programs featuring,
as speakers, faculty members, graduate students and associates of the
University.
- to establish and administer UNSW-based workshops and specialist
seminars for teachers, counsellors and parents of gifted students.
- to be responsible for the administration of the Scientia Challenge
Program for gifted and talented high school students, and to establish
and administer additional and complementary programs for gifted
students.
- to publish a range of professional development materials designed to
assist educators to identify and respond to the needs of gifted and
talented students.
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