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Professor
Paul Hughes
Chair of the
Executive of the Indigenous College of Education and Research
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Professor
Hughes has been a primary teacher, an Education Officer with the
Department of Aboriginal Affairs, Director of the Aboriginal Centre at the
University of SA, Chair of the National Aboriginal Education Committee,
and Superintendent of Aboriginal Education for the SA Department of
Education.
With
a Masters Degree in Education from
Harvard
University
he is the first Australian
Aborigine (Yunkunyatjatjara/Narannga)
to be promoted to an earned Professorship. His career has been as a
teacher, policy maker, manager, consultant and researcher on Indigenous
education issues worldwide.
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Professor Hughes has chaired the National Aboriginal Education
Committee, the Commonwealth Aboriginal Education Policy Taskforce, the MCEETYA
Taskforce on Aboriginal Education and the South Australian Aboriginal Education
Advisory Committee. He has served on the Commonwealth Schools Commission and
Schools Council, and currently is a member of the Australian Council for
Educational Research and the South Australian Centre for Lifelong Learning.
He
has been awarded the Order of Australia, an honorary Doctorate from Flinders
University,
Fellowship of the Australian
College
of
Education, the UNESCO Comenius Medal on behalf of the SA Aboriginal Education
Unit and the Australian
College
of
Education Medal in 2000.
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