Sydney Science Festival at venues all over town
Sydney Science Festival kicks off its 2018 program with 13 days jam-packed with over 200 events across 90 venues in store. The Festival will be coming venues around Sydney from Tuesday 7 –Sunday 19 August.
Games & gambling not kids stuff
Gambling is insidious, it seems to pervade sport and a lot of social activity, it has also crept into the video games that so fascinate our kids and there are calls for something to be done.
Global education leaders to meet in Melbourne
A gathering of education experts from around the world, The Asia Society Global Cities Education Network symposium will be coming to Victoria in 2019 owing to the state's performance in international benchmarks.
Teens find “creepy” apps follow them
We’re on them all the time but is the phone using you more than you’re using it? Quite possibly, scarily we only have an inkling of what is going on behind the screen.
littleBIGidea winners will fly to the NASA Kennedy Space Centre
The search for Australia’s brightest young inventors is officially underway, as Origin’s littleBIGidea competition launches for its fifth year, with engineer, inventor and futurist, Dr Jordan Nugyen returning as head judge and ambassador.
Go Girl Go For IT aims to close the IT gender gap for Victorian students
2000 girls from 73 Victorian schools will attend Go Girl, Go For IT on 16 August at Deakin Uni Burwood Campus – the event is hosted by the Victorian ICT for Women network which aims to inspire female students to consider a career in IT.
Musica Viva 2019 season launch
Musica Viva’s shows for the coming year have been announced and the program will continue its work taking live music and educational resources to children all over Australia.
Site brings military history to life
RSL Queensland’s website RSL Education provides student activities, teaching notes and engaging multimedia content tailored to suit students of all ages covering the ADF's activities of the last century.
Risk management in schools
Risk management is the kind of thing that can be put on the back burner but it is a great way to avoid problems, and having some processes in place if or when things do go wrong is a great advantage.
SACE grows in Asia
They must be doing something right in South Australian education as seven more schools in Asia will teach the world-class South Australian Certificate of Education (SACE) for the first time from 2019.
Sounds like a phonics debate
Phonics has been controversial for years and leading educators will meet in Sydney next week to further the debate. They will present and argue the case for particular methods as well as the limitations of approaches.
