There are many scholarships available to help students out with their education including specific ones to support those from rural and regional communities. However there are many who are missing out because they simply don’t know about all the scholarship ...
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Mobile app changing the way schools communicate
For years parents have relied on newsletters to stay in contact with their child’s school, now teachers and parents are turning to a new mobile app to communicate. School Stream is a mobile app designed to deliver school information, instantly ...
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High school students and aged-care residents will link up to learn about online safety. University of the Sunshine Coast researchers and campus-based organisation iDcare, which supports victims of identity crime, launched the program in an effort to reduce online identity ...
More »States should take full control over schools: research
States should take full control over the way primary and secondary schools in Australia are run, funded and regulated, a new report has found. The report, published by the Melbourne School of Government, found that the current system of mixed ...
More »Students get excited about all things science and the sea
A primary school initiative led by the CSRIRO is inspiring young students to get excited about science. Cayne Layton, a University of Tasmania PhD researcher with the Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies is involved in CSIRO’s Scientists and Mathematicians ...
More »Linking Victorian apprentices with employers
A new initiative has been launched in an effort to create pathways to employment for Victorian apprentices. As part of an Australian Government initiative to boost trainee and apprentice completion rates, MAS National has been selected as part of the ...
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The jobs market is picking up for those looking to fill positions in the education industry, according to new data released by SEEK that reveals advertisements for teaching jobs have risen. New job advertisements in the sector have climbed 27 ...
More »Foreign language study in decline
The number of students learning a second language is in decline, with a shortage of qualified teachers and the high cost of offering languages at university partly to blame, professor Jane Simpson says. Simpson is deputy director of the ARC Centre ...
More »Corruption in Chinese education could risk the reputation of Australian VET providers
Corruption in the Chinese education system could have a negative effect on the reputation of Australian training agencies and the quality of graduating students, a Griffith University researcher is warning. Dr Rakesh Gupta, a lecturer at Griffith Business School concerns ...
More »Online resource to help teachers transform lesson plans
Going through lesson plans to pull together fun and engaging activities can be overwhelming for some teachers, but a new online resource can help to alleviate that stress. MAPPEN – the new online curriculum resource, to improve quality of teaching ...
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