Australian education (education in Australia)

Even harder is being able to mange to this vision. However, it is possible. It may take years until you know whether the ICT the school invested in was the right one. To be a good visionary in ICT in education, you need to be smart and fearless. You also need to have strong opinion today about where the ...

The new statistics, published by the Department of Education and Training on 17 March, show that student numbers were 12 per cent higher in January and February than in the equivalent period of 2017. Australia was home to 542,000 foreign learners, up from 481,000 last year. The federal government ...

Australia's acting prime minister, Michael McCormack, will promise to build on Barnaby Joyce's work by renewing the party's focus on regional health and education in his first major speech as Nationals leader. With Malcolm Turnbull overseas attending the Commonwealth heads of government meeting, ...

In some states, like the Australian Capital Territory, South Australia and the Northern Territory, possession of small amounts of marijuana has been effectively ... Victoria and Queensland, police officers often issue warnings to those facing minor drug charges, with offenders diverted to education programs.

Federal Education Minister Simon Birmingham said the new figures showed Australia was “on track to continue our record-breaking run of growth in international education”. He said education exports supported about 130,000 jobs in tourism, retail and hospitality, on top of those in universities, colleges and ...

RAFFLES Education has entered into a heads of agreement with Australia's Propertylink for the planned sale of its entire freehold interest in a six-storey commercial building at 1-3 Fitzwilliam Street, Parramatta, in Australia's New South Wales. The sale consideration is A$82 million (S$83.6 million) and a ...

Ultimately, this is an issue of the place of these communities in contemporary Australian society. The review was commissioned in March 2017, with the aim of improving education outcomes for rural students and their access to higher education. It sought to identify new and innovative approaches to ...

Educational inequality has cost the Australian economy more than $20bn, as well as contributing to the widening gap between rich and poor, new research has found. The report from the Public Education Foundation found that students at the bottom of Australia's schooling system were falling further ...

As Australia's largest service export, and third-largest export overall, international education is clearly a point of vulnerability. Beijing is leveraging its market power to pressure Australian universities and firms to plead with their home government to submit to Chinese government demands on foreign and ...

It's where a team of researchers, led by Barry Down of Murdoch University's school of education in Perth, spent 18 months tracking the experiences of 32 ... become the subject of a new book, Rethinking School-to Work Transitions in Australia: Young People Have Something to Say, co-authored by Down, ...

The National Tertiary Education Union said that the university could have achieved the same result without suffering “massive legal costs and significant reputational damage”. Gabe Gooding, the NTEU's Western Australia state secretary, said that the move had compounded the harm to Murdoch's image ...

A Chinese newspaper has condemned the Australian government over delays in student visa processing, in the latest sign that political tensions between the two countries are affecting Australia's lucrative international education industry. China's Global Times newspaper says that “politically motivated ...

It also indicated that authorities referred to them as "counter-extremism centres", "political study centres", or "education and transformation centres". The exiled leader of the Muslim Uighur minority, Rebiya Kadeer, is expected to visit Australia later this month. The Australian Uighur Association said she ...

Indonesia may need to reconsider various education and language policies that relate to internationalization, especially at the level of tertiary education. (Shutterstock/File) ... PREMIUM On March 17 and 18, ASEAN will be holding talks with representatives of the Australian government. The talks are a ...

Silent Invasion: How China is Turning Australia into a Puppet State has fuelled debate - some have welcomed discussion about China's influence, ... The book, by Australian academic Clive Hamilton, argues that Beijing's reach has extended into Australian politics, business, education and religious groups.

They show that future growth in Chinese higher education students is coming not from China but from people already in Australia. Some sector watchers say that this is partly because Chinese applicants are being discouraged from seeking “packaged” visas that cover multiple educational sectors, allowing ...

Update: 12:15PM STUDENTS who wish to study in Australia will get easy access to information when a roadshow designed to help them comes to Fiji this week. The Australia Future Unlimited Fiji Education Roadshow will be held in Suva and Nadi on March 8-10, according to the Australian Trade ...

The number of Chinese people approved to study in Australian higher education institutions increased by 4.2 per cent in the second half of last year, ... Preparations are under way for Simon Birmingham, the Australian education minister, to visit China, while representative body Universities Australia plans ...

“We're not going to be passive players in education.” The Aracy report also showed Australian children are falling behind in immunisation rates while facing rising rates of mental illness, and highlighted the vulnerability of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander youth in particular. The good news is smoking ...

Adrian Piccoli's comments on Anglo-Australian parents prioritising sport over education may spark a superficial debate, but they fail to address Australia's educational decline on the world stage. Why shift the blame to parents? Why not face up to the the long-term failure of our federal and state governments ...

China appears to be using the education sector to signal its displeasure with Australian policy, although it remains unclear exactly what has caused the friction — it could be disagreements over the South China Sea, or Australia's criticism of Chinese efforts to influence Australian universities. On February ...

Australia's government needs to spend more to ensure that the country's vast size does not stifle the educational aspirations of its non-urban inhabitants, a new report says. The report, by former education bureaucrat and remote school principal John Halsey, calls on the government to establish a dedicated ...

The Australian-first research found that an effective childbirth education programme -- which significantly reduced the incidence of caesarean births -- could save an average of AU$808 per woman. Lead author, Dr Kate Levett says applied to the 120,000 first time mothers who give birth annually in Australia ...

Ms. Wu is aware of the challenges her technology sector peers have faced, but she says her school's model, team and location in Australia could set it apart. Private education is much more common in Australia than in the United States. About a third of Australian children attend private schools — nearly ...

"Whether it is technology, manufacturing, hospitality, tourism and the health sector, our education system caters for all those sectors,” she said on Friday at her residence, during a cocktail reception for members of the Kenya-Australia Alumni Association and representatives of Australian universities and ...