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A program that prepares outstanding student teachers to work in Queensland’s most disadvantaged schools is going national. Thanks to a $2 million grant from the Origin Foundation, the National Exceptional Teachers for Disadvantaged Schools (NETDS) program will be offered in ...

The best computer programming secondary school students from across the country are getting together at a School of Excellence event in Canberra, December 9-19. As part of the process, 26 students attending the event will ultimately be selected to compete ...

As part of the Bridges to Higher Education program, educational leaders and Indigenous students from five NSW universities recently joined forces with the National Centre of Indigenous Excellence (NCIE) to engage with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students, their families ...

Local teens’ literacy assessments dip in worldwide rankings. Australian students are slipping in mathematics and reading literacy, the latest Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) has shown. Fifteen-year-olds who took part in the assessment performed equal 17th in mathematics, equal ...

School students get extra dose of health experience on campus. Students from Rockhampton’s Emmaus College who are enrolling in a Certificate 3 in Allied Health Assistance recently spent three days at CQUniversity as part of a HealthLink experience, flagging a ...

  Classes to encourage students to become responsible digital citizens are meeting a growing need. By Fran Molloy. "The secret is actually to talk about it. Talk about the scenarios and question students, get them to engage in decision-making in ...

The number of young people not in work or study has dropped sharply in the past year and the ACCI is passionate about the need to take action on the problem. By John Mitchell.  If a competition were held to ...

  Innovation is flourishing as our schools explore new strategies for teachers’ personal development, ranging from social media to video to face-to-face discussion. By Antonia Maiolo. Schools, teachers and organisations in Australia are taking up innovative approaches to support professional ...

The technology is there for remote learning, paperless classrooms and more. Now it’s up to the schools. By Adam Centorrino. While it sometimes seems that classrooms are in a constant ferment of change, the development of cloud technology has the ...

The move for students to use their own devices at school brings new challenges to IT departments in managing ever-proliferating data. By Michael Porfirio. "Vendors are evolving to become trusted partners where they work with a broad range of hardware ...