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Intro

PTR Consulting Pty Ltd provides a range of consulting services to the education sector and in public policy in Australia and internationally.

Our consultants have a breadth of experience in the education and the wider public sector and have worked in national and international settings for school, corporate and government clients.

Overview

Overview

PTR Consulting Pty Ltd provides services to state, national and international education systems, schools and the corporate sector.

PTR Consulting Services

Program evaluation and review

Educational research

Structural reviews

Educational policy writing

Professional development program design,
delivery and evaluation advice

Customer satisfaction surveys

Mentoring and coaching

Strategic planning

School accountability systems and school effectiveness advice

School review and improvement planning

Report writing

Curriculum review and development;

Bracketed Quote

PTR Consulting Pty Ltd is able to assemble a team of highly experienced and talented educational consultants to meet the demands of clients with small and large projects.

Recruitment Services

Recruitment Services

Peter Cole, Director, PTR Consulting and trading as Cole Consulting, is also a Director of Edstaff, an educational recruitment service established in 1994. Edstaff works with schools and education systems to provide school leadership and teacher recruitment.

Edstaff's recruitment processes deliver:

significant savings in recruitment costs and time

recruitment by consultants with specialist experience in the education sector

high quality candidates drawn from a range of sources including from Edstaff’s extensive databases and contacts

streamlined short listing processes

Work and Clients

Work and Clients

Reporting Transparency (DEECD) a discussion paper of the issues surrounding the reporting of school performance (Cole)

Pay for performance (DEECD) a research paper examining the pros and cons of pay for  performance schemes in schools (Cole)

Workforce Reform (DEECD) a research paper examining the impact of changing the staffing profile in schools (Cole)

School Governance (DEECD) a paper exploring the strengths and weaknesses of school governance and proposing alternative governance arrangements (Cole, Jane, Zbar, and Marshall)

Reducing the Regulatory Burden on Schools- Stakeholder Consultation Project (DEECD) – Identification of key areas of regulation and administrative activity with potential to reduce the burden on schools (Cole, Griffiths and Jane)

Work Quote

Peter Cole helped us throughout the year remodelling our concept, he has been professional and upstanding 

- RMIT University

Second Quote

PTR Consulting has a depth of experience that we greatly value and they always deliver a high quality product

- Department of Education and Early Childhood, Victoria.

Previous Clients

Previous Clients

Education Bureau of Hong Kong

Government of the Republic of Azerbaijan

Asia Education Foundation

Curriculum Corporation

The University of Melbourne

Foundation for Young Australians

Certain Knowledge

Australian Football League

Golf Australia

Department of Education and Early Childhood Development , Victoria.

Department of Education, Employment and Work Place Relations, Canberra. 

World Bank

Catholic Education Office, Victoria.

About Section

About PTR Consulting

Peter Cole CV

Peter Cole B.Comm., M.ED.

Peter is a former senior executive of the Victorian Department of Education and has extensive management and strategic leadership experience within the education sector.  As a Senior Executive within the Education Department Peter managed School Reorganisation, Curriculum Development and Training and Development.

Peter was also a researcher and policy analyst with the Curriculum Advisory Board, the State Board of Education and the Victorian Institute of Secondary Education. Peter is an accredited school performance reviewer, accredited principal coach and accredited school registration reviewer. He has completed over one hundred school performance reviews for the Office for Government School Education.

He has extensive experience and expertise in:

  • Program evaluation and review
  • Research  and policy writing
  • Strategic planning
  • Structural reviews
  • Curriculum review and development
  • School accountability
  • Professional development program design, delivery and evaluation
  • Mentoring and coaching school leadership
  • School leadership and teacher recruitment
  • School review and improvement planning
  • School registration requirements

Dahle Suggett CV

Dahle Suggett   B.A., M.Ed., Ph.D.

Dahle has had over 25 years experience in executive management and policy and strategy development in both the public and private sectors. Her focus has been education and training, social policy, strategic planning, management and leadership.

From 2004-10 she has been at the executive level in the public sector with responsibility for policy and strategy leadership. Most recently she was the Deputy Director-General, Policy and Strategy, NSW Department of Premier and Cabinet and prior to that, Deputy Secretary, Department of Education and Early Childhood Development ,Victoria. In these positions Dahle lead major policy reviews and reforms such as a state wide school system improvement agenda, public sector outcomes performance management, and workforce and leadership development.

Prior to that Dahle was a Director and consultant in the Allen Consulting Group, a leading economics and public policy consulting group where she specialised in education and training, business strategy and corporate social responsibility. She has also been an executive in the chemical and plastics industry, had experience in international business and the public sector in United States and Europe and teaching experience in Higher Education and secondary schools.

Dahle has a BA, M.Ed. Monash University and a Ph.D. University of Melbourne. She has served on a number of boards as a non-executive director and has published widely  She is a fellow of The Institute of Public Administration Australia (Victoria), was Vice President of the Institute of Public Administration Australia (NSW) and is a member of the Institute of Company Directors.

She has extensive experience and expertise in:

  • Education and training policy development
  • Education and training research
  • Strategic planning for public and private sectors
  • Business and Government relations
  • Program evaluation and outcomes reviews

 

Associates and Consultants

Graeme Jane – B.A, Dip Ed, B. Ed, MBA.

Graeme is a Senior Research Associate at the Centre for Post-compulsory Education and Life-long Learning and an Associate at the Assessment Research Centre at The University of Melbourne. He specialises in research and policy development, leadership development and school improvement.

Vic Zbar – B.Ec, Dip. Ed.

Vic is a consultant and writer, and Director of Zbar Consulting which specialises in educational consulting and evaluation, and organisational development within Australia and internationally.

Tony Mackay – B.Ec, B.Ed, MA, FACE, FACEL, FIPAAV.

Tony is Executive Director of the Centre for Strategic Education and a Senior Research Associate at the Centre for Post-compulsory Education and Life-long Learning at The University of Melbourne. Tony specialises in the areas of school and system leadership, improvement and innovation.

Contact

Contact

If you would like to find out more about the services I can offer please feel free to contact me using the details below or by using the electronic form.

Consulting

For more information about our consulting services contact

team@ptrconsulting.com.au

pcole@mira.net

Phone:    +61 3 9646 1905

Mobile:     +61 414 719 421

Recruitment

For more information about our recruitment services contact

team@edstaff.com.au

Phone:    +61 3 9596 8688

Mobile:     + 61 414 414 884

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