One of Australia’s leading MOOC providers has launched Teach-a-thon – a hackathon for educators who want to run their own creative online courses. Embracing the spirit of a hackathon, an intensive, short term collaboration with software designers, OpenLearning will kick ...

A leading national jobsite for education has launched a new smart phone app that will allow principals to book relief teachers more easily and cost-effectively. The new app, Tap for Teacher, launched this week on teachers.on.net allows schools to contact ...

Former Australian Federal Police cybercrime expert Alastair MacGibbon has officially stepped into his new role as children’s e-safety commissioner. The Office of the Children’s e-Safety Commissioner was created as a result government surveys that revealed up to 1 in 5 Australian ...

Gifted and talented school kids have taken time out of their holidays to attend university. The Holiday Enrichment Workshop Series hosted by the University of Southern Queensland in partnership with BRAINways Education, ran over two days (June 29-30), consisting of ...

In a quest to boost Tasmania’s education outcomes and lift participation rates, the University of Tasmania today launched the Children’s University Tasmania. The project was launched today with education and training minister Jeremy Rockliff at the Moonah Arts Centre, Hobart, ...

Central Queensland University and Fitzroy Basin Association are helping teachers find science education paradise in Gladstone for Science Week. Teachers from around Queensland will converge on CQUniversity Gladstone in August, for a hands-on weekend to help them bring science to ...

Monash University has partnered with the Melbourne Football Club to deliver the club’s Read Like a Demon literacy program. The program is aimed at inspiring a love of reading and to improve literacy among primary school students. It offers students ...

The government needs to give greater priority to funding schools enrolling students most at risk of leaving school and to develop sustainable funding policies for the future. In a new report – Australian Education Review – Lyndsay Connors and Jim ...

With technology set to play an increased role in the classrooms of tomorrow, the Queensland Education Leadership Institute (QELi) and Optus have joined forces to help schools accelerate their plans to digitalise education. Under a recently-signed Memorandum of Understanding, the ...

Queensland’s top science students engaged in a week-long challenge to learn about the biofuels industry in order to support future jobs. Sixteen students joined the Queensland University of Technology’s Process Engineering Challenge at QUT’s Mackay Renewable Biocommodities Pilot Plant in late June. The ...