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Outstanding SACE achievers recognised with Governor’s Commendation  Twenty-seven outstanding South Australian Certificate of Education students were recognised for their achievements in academics as well as their contributions to community and the arts.

Wominjeka inclusive space at Mount Dandenong Schools are encouraged to come up with innovative projects based on their existing facilities and the needs of their students with disabilities to access the Vic Government’s $20 million Inclusive Schools Fund.

Innovative resource for safeguarding children It is timely that the Australian Catholic University (ACU) has launched an innovative web-portal that provides safeguarding initiatives and preventative approaches to child sexual abuse within organisations.

Next gen entrepreneurs Are entrepreneurs the new celebrities? If research is to be believed it looks like a big ‘yes’ with 90% of kids indicating that they want to follow the example of Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg and the Google guys.

ATAR not everything Student’s futures don’t have to live and die by their ATAR score as an increasing number of institutions are looking beyond entrance rankings when admitting students. Institutions are now implementing their own admission requirements.

NSW public school students shine in HSC Some parents in NSW will be having a good look at why they’re sending their children to expensive private schools after the release of HSC results for the state this year.

NAPLAN three horse race It isn’t supposed to be a race but if they will release comparison tables the temptation to identify a winner in the NAPLAN results is too great. And it looks like NSW, Victoria and the ACT in a three-horse photo finish.

World leader in education policy, Pasi Sahlberg, joins UNSW and Gonski Institute for Education World-renowned Finnish educator Dr Pasi Sahlberg has been appointed a Professor of Education at UNSW Sydney and will work with the University’s new interdisciplinary institute focussing on educational access and excellence, the Gonski Institute for Education.

Inspirational teachers’ day made better Ten extraordinary primary and secondary school teachers have received a nice surprise with their students, colleagues and community anointing them as the winners of the 2017 A Day Made Better Teaching Awards.

Australian preschoolers to learn new languages with ELLA in 2018 About 60,000 preschool children in the year before school will use tablet devices to access ELLA to learn one of nine languages next year using a series of seven interactive apps per language. 

UniSA research to identify how schools foster refugee student resilience Often refugees don’t arrive with much but what they do have in spades is resilience; that will form the centerpiece of a Uni SA initiative designed to play to refugee children's strengths.

Kids and literacy, get them started young So how do you improve literacy in kids? Have them attend schools where a greater number of kids are literate when they start school. So says the 2016 Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS).