At Sunny Bay: building students` repertoire of literacy practices through process drama

This collection of resources provides classroom examples and case studies, offers a platform of ideas for teachers to investigate new ways of building the literacy development of their students.

Repositioning drama to centre stage: drama, English, text and literacy

A version of this article was first presented at the Drama Australia Conference, Fremantle, July 2002. It draws upon Freebody and Luke's four resources literacy framework, where they describe four kinds of literacy  practices. It shows how this model is used within the literacy community and argues that this model is useful to describe the contribution that drama can make to literacy development. Freebody and Luke's model is used and  promoted throughout Australia and the author argues that it is politically astute for drama teachers to reclaim and promote their links to the English/Literacy curriculum.

Equal to life: empowerment through drama and research in a drama group for people with disabilities

This article draws from findings of qualitative research of a community- based drama and theatre group for adults with intellectual disabilities. The article considers constraints experienced by people with disabilities and explores the ways that experiences in drama and theatre can be particularly empowering for them. The article also reveals the ways that participants can increasingly become collaborators in the research and are empowered through the research process and through the opportunity to have their voices heard.

A tale of action, suspense and drama : Village Roadshow’s buy-back scheme

The experience of Village Roadshow, in its two failed attempts to have a share buy-back scheme approved by the Supreme Court, sounds a warning to companies and their legal advisers about the pitfalls in presentation of such schemes to shareholders.

IT outsourcing issues in Singapore : the vendor's perspective

Most studies undertaken in the area of IT outsourcing seem to focus only on the customer’s perspective leaving a gap in knowledge about the vendor’s perspective. This study aims to correct this deficiency by investigating the views of four organisations providing IT services in Singapore, and comparing this to the current literature base of customer views. The findings showed that the vendor’s views about security, contract management and flexibility differed from the customer’s point of view. However, two issues, partnerships and vendor inexperience, seem to match the vendor issues found in this study. Additionally, two approaches were found to be used by vendors in the IT outsourcing activities, multiple-team approach and single-team approach. A multiple–team approach is likely to be used by vendors having a contract-based relationship and single-team approach is likely to be used by vendors having a partnership-based relationship.

Snapshot of Singapore biotechnology boom indicators

The article discusses various reports published within the issue, including one on the biotechnology industry players in Singapore and another on a market audit survey on the Singapore biotechnology sector.

Survey commentaries and analysis on Singapore biotechnology international alliances and Singapore biotechnology boom in 2010

The article presents survey commentaries and analysis on biotechnology international alliances and biotechnology boom in Singapore in 2010. The survey revealed that the government and other key government industries are not keen in investing money in areas such as agricultural biotechnology, vaccine production, natural medicine, alternative therapeutics and plant biotechnology which have economic future globally. Most stakeholders expect international alliances and biopartnering with Singapore. They identified that the industry's strengths are biomedical and pharmaceuticals.