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Australian schools need to quickly get to grips with mobile internet devices and cloud computing. The 2009 Australia New Zealand edition of the Horizon Report, produced by a US group called the New Media Consortium, has identified the six key ...

Six months ago, Hallam Senior College in Victoria was struck by a computer virus which found its way into the school network on a USB stick. A student who had downloaded a copy of Limewire from the internet had also ...

Some 295,000 personal computers will be bought through the National Secondary School Computer Fund – a key plank of the government’s $2.2 billion digital education revolution. That’s a lot of new computers which are to be manufactured, packaged, transported to ...

The One Laptop Per Child project has Australia’s remote population in its sights.The international not-for-profit is planning to seed demand from state and territory governments by handing over 1800 of its computers to children aged six to 12 over the ...

Most Year 12 students were born a year after the world wide web debuted; Year 6 kids are as old as Google; and if the iPod were in school it would be a third grader. It’s no wonder it’s a ...

There were 169 applications for the 30 places which will be offered to the first intake of students to NSW’s virtual selective high school class beginning in 2010. Carole McDiarmid, western NSW regional director of the NSW Department of Education, ...

It wasn’t just baby boomers with their eyes on their super that felt the pain of the economic downturn in Australia. Research recently published by The Foundation for Young Australians, entitled ‘How Young People are Faring’, presents a confronting picture. ...

Vocational education and training (VET) outcomes deteriorated significantly through the middle half of this decade, throwing doubt on the sector’s capacity to help meet higher education equity and completion targets. Dr Leesa Wheelahan, senior lecturer in adult and vocational education ...

Deadlines are a necessary evil: without them work doesn’t get done, assignments aren’t finished – and nobody would know which train to catch. Of course, there’s only so much that can be physically achieved within a certain time frame, which ...

Addressing skill shortages, tackling poor university retention rates and creating viable pathways between school, TAFE and university all come together in a pathbreaking new initiative offered by Victoria’s dual-sector RMIT University. A conversation in 2008 between Elise Toomey, RMIT University’s ...