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The FCJ Sisters and the Loreto Sisters are delighted to announce that Ms Susan Pascoe AM has been appointed as the new chair for their joint National Education Board.

Ms Susan Pascoe is currently one of the three commissioners for the Royal Commission into Victorian Bushfires. She has been a full-time Commissioner with the Victorian State Services Authority and was formerly the Chief Executive of the Catholic Education Commission of Victoria and the Director of Catholic Education in the Archdiocese of Melbourne.

The National Education Board, formerly known as the Ward-d'Houet Board, was established in 2006. Its mission is to promote the charism and educational philosophy of the two congregations and to provide leadership to each school's governing body. 

Ms Pascoe will take up her role as Chair of the FCJ/Loreto National Education Board in July 2010. She will be responsible for leading a team committed to the provision of outstanding Catholic education of young people in the Ignatian tradition. Ms Pascoe will also be a key support for the yet to be employed Executive Director of Education for the FCJ/Loreto schools.

Previous Chair, Prof Roslyn Arnold (formerly Dean and Professor of Education at the University of Tasmania and currently Honorary Professor at the University of Sydney) worked closely with the FCJ/Loreto provincials in furthering the faith development at the heart of the schools and working with the individual school councils to ensure the quality and long term viability of these enterprises. Prof Arnold resigned at the end of last year after many years of generous contribution to Loreto Education.

Read more in the media release

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