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Ascham School kits out dedicated print room Ascham School in Sydney has all but eliminated the waiting and frustration that a slow printer can cause with a dedicated, fully staffed print room.

Brisbane to Host National Education Summit For the first time, the National Education Summit will hold a Brisbane event in 2019, bringing a comprehensive professional development program to local educators over two days in May.

KOMPAN Australia launch Matched Funding Grant Program for play equipment KOMPAN Australia has launched a Matched Funding Grant Program, open to schools in Victoria and Western Australia, aiming to make quality play and fitness equipment more accessible.

Queenslanders best Young ICT Explorers The 2018 national winners of the Young ICT Explorers competition have been announced with teams from Queensland and Australian Capital Territory taking home the top prizes.

Rural school’s learning platform make for easy access learning Located on the Victoria-New South Wales (NSW) border, Wodonga Middle Years College (WMYC) has leveraged technology so every student can access education from anywhere at any time.

The National Education Summit is heading to Brisbane The National Education Summit will hold it’s inaugural Queensland event in 2019, bringing a comprehensive professional development program to educators 31 May – 1 June at the Convention. Centre 

$100k Fellowship for Victorian school leaders: applications closing soon John Hattie has really put Melbourne on the map education wise and you can access the opportunity to work with the man himself through a Menzies Fellowship.

Swinburne project encourages women into STEM Swinburne University of Technology researchers have started on a project, titled ‘Standing out from the Crowd’, targeting 20 urban and 10 rural Victorian secondary schools and seeking to encourage women in STEM.

Abandoning ‘The Age of Manufacture’ concept: How collaboration works for learners and teachers In his book, The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything, (2009) Ken Robinson writes  “Students are educated in batches, according to age, as if the most important thing they have in common is their date of manufacture.”

Funding for future female leaders Funding from The National Excellence in School Leadership Initiative has been made available to both teaching and non-teaching female staff working in Australia’s K–12 education sector.

Testing the teaching profession Teaching is essential but keeping teachers is hard and a new parliamentary inquiry into the profession will seek to find out how those in the profession can be made happy and fulfilled.

Students sing their Songs of Belonging with Opera Queensland’s help Yeronga State High School in inner-south Brisbane school has partnered with Opera Queensland to develop a stripped back opera to spotlight the stories and vocal abilities of its diverse student body.