Brother has released a new range of printers and multifunction devices targeted at the education sector. “Brother is committed to be 'at your side' today, tomorrow, and for many more years to come," Brother Australia marketing specialist Stefanie Dixon. "The ...
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There is still time for Victoria's best educators to be nominated for the 2017 Victorian Education Excellence Awards (VEEA). These are the apical awards for school professionals. There are gongs for the best principals, teachers and business managers, across both individual ...
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Ivan Seselj is the founder and CEO of Promapp, a business improvement and process management online tool used by a wide variety of public and private companies, and government organisations, to simply their most important operations. "Promapp was designed in ...
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How to improve education outcomes with strategic experience management platforms. Education is massively important to Australian society. As well as contributing significantly to our economy through the provision of employment, the education sector is Australia’s fourth largest export earner. Attracting ...
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A passion for innovative thinking in education and a consultative leadership style have helped this award-winning principal transform lives. Andrew Duncan has held principal roles at Queensland primary schools for the past 14 years, and in 2016 received a John ...
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An innovative Australian campaign to stop online bullying is winning awards around the world and helping teens get their lives back on track. Teenagers feeling misunderstood by adults and peers isn’t unique to any generation, but in the era of ...
More »Films and Auslan helping deaf voices be heard
One school’s decision to establish an Auslan program has proven to be a sound investment. On a Monday night in Sydney’s Bondi Junction, hundreds of primary school children, parents and teachers packed a cinema for the sixth annual KidzFlicks Sydney ...
More »VET helping to Close the Gap for Indigenous school-leavers
Indigenous youths are becoming more educated, and are thereby helping to Close the Gap, according to a new report from the National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER). Increased Indigenous vocational completions are driving this change, though they remain behind ...
More »Learning program encourages STEM mentoring between high school and primary students
MacRobertson Girls’ High School, located in South Melbourne, has joined forces with STEM-based education resource provider Stile to assist in the transferal of science skills from older, high achieving mentors and younger, eager-to-learn proteges. It's called the Gifted Outreach Program ...
More »Support programs and out-of-hours learning essential to teaching kids from refugee backgrounds
According to the 2016 Census, there are currently around 9,200 refugee students enrolled in more 600 Victorian government schools. Five years ago, the Department of Education and Training (DET) initiated the Refugee Education Support Program (RESP) with the aim of ...
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