6 December 2010

New heights of crap acronyms reached by the InSPIRE Centre

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Andrew Barr has breathlessly announced that work has begun out at UC for:

The Innovative Sustainable Practical Interactive Research in Education (InSPIRE) Centre, which will be the centre for teacher training and research in the use of ICT in education, has received $2 million from the ACT Labor Government and $5 million from the Federal Labor Government. The new centre is part of Mr Barr’s drive to ensure ACT students get taught by the very best teachers in Australia.

Just be glad you weren’t at the brainstorming session when they came up with that one.

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+1 for the library comment. So old fashioned that business of reading books, using hands-on materials and even looking at a real arts poster.

Besides the title having no meaning, or possibly mixed meaning, I reckon that sustainable is not really a word that goes with supposedly ‘cutting edge’ technologies and innovation… Methinks a rethink is in order…

georgesgenitals10:11 am 07 Dec 10

Sounds like a load of Bascially Using Local Languages Supporting Hopelessly Idiotic Teachers.

See, I can do it too!

I’d like to suggest the alternative: Centre for the Use of New Technologies in Schools.

Although… that’s probably unlikely to be too popular with Mr Barr…

So very naff – indeed, Barrbaric – to create such a confected acronym. But what do you expect from CCAE.

Wow! that’s a massive spend in the same year they closed the Teacher’s Library at CTL as a cost cutting measure (and of course by that I mean “efficiency dividend”)…

Obviously computers are more important than those paper and cardboard things with the words and pictures printed in them…

Waiting For Godot5:39 pm 06 Dec 10

Barr just keeps getting more and more loopier. Just move to Darlinghurst now, Andrew and spare us all the embarrassing spectacle of a politician’s credibility and relevance slowly ebbing away while everybody is laughing behind his back.

My guess is that they started with “Sustainable” and worked their way out.

Pommy bastard4:25 pm 06 Dec 10

Oh man, what a game of “Bullshit Bingo” you could have had at that meeting!

You can really tell that they decided on the acronym first, and made the name fit it later, since it’s practically a buzzword acrostic poem:

INovative
Sustainable
Practical
Interactive
Research in
Education.

Bleh.

They should have asked an eight year old. They write much better acrostics.

I am guessing $3.5 million was spent coming up with the acronym.

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