Summarize this content to 2000 words in 6 paragraphs COLIN REGINALD JOSEPH MOYLE March 23, 1930-December 25, 2024Colin Moyle started his relationship with education at the hands of the grandmother who raised him.By the time he started school, he had been exposed to nursery rhymes, pictures, words, numbers and one memorable book Animal Life of the World. But it was the first-grade teacher, Miss Tate, with whom he fell in love, and who inspired him to become a teacher. He won a statewide junior scholarship that paid for his secondary education at Warragul High School, a senior scholarship that gained him entrance to University of Melbourne and a teaching scholarship that took him to Melbourne Teachers College (MTC) to train as a primary teacher when his first year at university did not go so well.When he graduated successfully with a trained primary teacher’s certificate, he spent seven years as head teacher in rural schools which won him an “outstanding” mark from Frank Budge, district inspector (DI), and a promotion to Maryborough State School where he stayed for four years, making the effort to study in his own time for an arts degree at the University of Melbourne.In 1962, a Victorian Teachers’ Union officer, Phil Dwyer, suggested Colin apply for study leave and part-time teaching, and the teaching turned out to be maths at Melbourne High School. His next challenge was teaching English to year 12 police cadets for a year followed by an appointment as lecturer in English method and literature back at MTC. He celebrated both the college appointment and his completion of his BA by paying for a three-week language seminar in Indonesia.In 1966, the first year of his lectureship, he chanced again to meet Phil Dwyer, who encouraged him to apply for a DI’s position, and in 1967 Colin was appointed DI for Mildura. When the Education Department of Victoria (EDV) appointed three regional directors of education as an experiment in regionalisation, Colin became the regional director for the Bendigo region.His interest in educational leadership was piqued, and he took himself to the 1974 three-week International Conference on Educational Administration in London. When Victoria’s director-general of education (DGE), Lawrie Shears, decided to grant his three RDs opportunities for further study, Colin won two years at the University of Wisconsin-Madison to complete his PhD.Colin Moyle: career in education.When another Shears’ initiative, the Institute of Educational Administration, was established, Colin was appointed foundation director, a position he held until his retirement from the EDV in 1987. He then spent 12 years as UNESCO’s senior consultant in educational planning to the government of Indonesia, the last few of those years being part-time alongside his appointment as an honorary research fellow to the University of Western Australia, until the end of 1999. He then went back almost to the beginning, tutoring slow readers at Woodlands Primary School in Perth. He also took on the task of proofreading, editing and examining more than 50 PhD theses from various universities, finally really retiring in 2015.In his 90th year, Colin reflected on why he had what he considered to be both a lucky and an exciting career in education. From the first, he was bright and hard-working and learnt to stay on task. His grandmother instilled in him the importance of education.
