❓ Mr. Brown questions the Speaker regarding the establishment, findings, staffing, and outcomes of the Parliamentary Education Office and a related Education Review Group, focusing on the justification for a new position and changes to the office's functions.
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25. Mr BROWN to the Speaker:
(1) Did the Presiding Officers of the Parliament establish an Education Review Group in 1998?
(2) For what purpose was the Education Review Group established?
(3) What were the findings of the Group?
(4) Did the group find that functions needed to be carried out by the Parliamentary Education Office that were then not being carried out?
(5) What were those duties or functions?
(6) Did the review result in the position of Parliamentary Education Officer being established?
(7) What were the duties of that position when it was established?
(8) In what way did those duties differ from the duties carried out by the two officers employed in the Parliamentary Education Office?
(9) Prior to establishing the Parliamentary Education Officer position, was any consideration given to the total number of staff needed in the Parliamentary Education Office?
(10) Prior to the position of Parliamentary Education Officer being created, was any consideration given to the degree to which existing staff in the Parliamentary Education Office would or may be affected if that position was filled by a person other than one of the two people then engaged in that office?
(11) Prior to the establishment of the Parliamentary Education Officer position, was any consideration given to engaging specialist services for a short period of time that would have enabled the existing staff in the Parliamentary Education Office to carry out those functions identified by the review group as being necessary?
(12) If not, why not?
(13) On what date was the Parliamentary Education Officer position established?
(14) On what date was the position filled?
(15) On what date did it become apparent that the Parliamentary Education Office did not require three staff?
(16) Was any other separate review or evaluation undertaken of the number of staff required in the Parliamentary Education Office?
(17) Was that review or evaluation conducted before or after the establishment of the Parliamentary Education Officer position?
(18) Are the changes made to the Education Office designed to establish -
(a) appropriate written materials;
(b) the development of proper teaching strategies;
(c) an upgraded and systematic way of delivering the public awareness program; and
(d) development of appropriate resources and teaching strategies?
(19) What written materials have been prepared?
(20) What is the purpose of those materials?
(21) What proper teaching strategies have been developed?
(22) What is the nature of each of those strategies?
(23) How do those strategies differ from the work previously carried out by the Parliamentary Education Office?
(24) Has the public awareness program been upgraded and redesigned to operate in a systematic way?
(25) What is the nature of the changes that have been made?
(26) What are the essential differences between the way the program operated prior to the restructuring of the Education Office?
(27) Have appropriate resources been developed?
(28) If so, what are those appropriate resources?
(29) What is the purpose of those resources?
(30) Have appropriate teaching strategies been implemented?
(31) To what extent are those teaching strategies different from the work previously carried out by the Education Office?
(1) Did the Presiding Officers of the Parliament establish an Education Review Group in 1998?
(2) For what purpose was the Education Review Group established?
(3) What were the findings of the Group?
(4) Did the group find that functions needed to be carried out by the Parliamentary Education Office that were then not being carried out?
(5) What were those duties or functions?
(6) Did the review result in the position of Parliamentary Education Officer being established?
(7) What were the duties of that position when it was established?
(8) In what way did those duties differ from the duties carried out by the two officers employed in the Parliamentary Education Office?
(9) Prior to establishing the Parliamentary Education Officer position, was any consideration given to the total number of staff needed in the Parliamentary Education Office?
(10) Prior to the position of Parliamentary Education Officer being created, was any consideration given to the degree to which existing staff in the Parliamentary Education Office would or may be affected if that position was filled by a person other than one of the two people then engaged in that office?
(11) Prior to the establishment of the Parliamentary Education Officer position, was any consideration given to engaging specialist services for a short period of time that would have enabled the existing staff in the Parliamentary Education Office to carry out those functions identified by the review group as being necessary?
(12) If not, why not?
(13) On what date was the Parliamentary Education Officer position established?
(14) On what date was the position filled?
(15) On what date did it become apparent that the Parliamentary Education Office did not require three staff?
(16) Was any other separate review or evaluation undertaken of the number of staff required in the Parliamentary Education Office?
(17) Was that review or evaluation conducted before or after the establishment of the Parliamentary Education Officer position?
(18) Are the changes made to the Education Office designed to establish -
(a) appropriate written materials;
(b) the development of proper teaching strategies;
(c) an upgraded and systematic way of delivering the public awareness program; and
(d) development of appropriate resources and teaching strategies?
(19) What written materials have been prepared?
(20) What is the purpose of those materials?
(21) What proper teaching strategies have been developed?
(22) What is the nature of each of those strategies?
(23) How do those strategies differ from the work previously carried out by the Parliamentary Education Office?
(24) Has the public awareness program been upgraded and redesigned to operate in a systematic way?
(25) What is the nature of the changes that have been made?
(26) What are the essential differences between the way the program operated prior to the restructuring of the Education Office?
(27) Have appropriate resources been developed?
(28) If so, what are those appropriate resources?
(29) What is the purpose of those resources?
(30) Have appropriate teaching strategies been implemented?
(31) To what extent are those teaching strategies different from the work previously carried out by the Education Office?
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