Wendy Jarvie
Dr Wendy Jarvie | |
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| Secretary of the Department of Education, Science and Training (Acting) | |
| In office 10 February 2003 – 10 March 2003 | |
| Personal details | |
| Nationality |  Australian |
| Alma mater | Flinders University University of Newcastle Harvard University |
| Occupation | Public servant |
Dr Wendy K. Jarvie is a public policy academic and retired senior Australian public servant.
Education and career
Attending Flinders University, Jarvie was awarded her PhD in Geography in 1984.[1] After completing her PhD, Jarvie joined the Australian Public Service in the Bureau of Labour Market Research.
Between 2001 and 2007, Wendy Jarvie was a Deputy Secretary at the Department of Education, Science and Training, staying in the role when the department transitioned to become the Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations.[2] During her time at DEST, Jarvie was involved with, among other things, policy behind Australia's Vocational and Technical Education System.[3] Jarvie left the Australian Public Service in 2008.[2]
In addition she worked for three years in the World Bank in Washington (1998-2001), initially in the Operations Evaluation Department where she was a manager of corporate evaluations and evaluation methods, and later in Operations and Country Strategies where she worked on small states issues, and managed a taskforce on Bank strategies for middle income countries.
In 2010, while a visiting professor at the University of New South Wales, Jarvie spoke on implementing and sustaining reforms in Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities.[4]
In 2012, Jarvie was appointed to be a member of the AusAID Independent Evaluation Committee.[5]
References
- ^ Dr Wendy Jarvie: Visiting Professor, University of New South Wales, archived from the original on 22 May 2013
- ^ a b Dr Wendy Jarvie, University of Sydney, archived from the original on 3 May 2013
- ^ Jarvie, Wendy (17 October 2005), Australia's Vocational & Technical Education System (PDF), Bogota: Department of Education, Science and Training, archived from the original (PDF) on 12 March 2013
- ^ Jarvie, Wendy (2010), Why is it all so hard? Implementing and sustaining reforms in Indigenous communities (PDF), archived from the original (PDF) on 24 February 2014
- ^ Dr Wendy Jarvie appointed to Ausaid committee, University of New South Wales, 23 June 2012, archived from the original on 24 February 2014
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