Migrant school cleaners among most vulnerable
The Fair Work Ombudsman has forced Veracity Property Services Pty Ltd to improve compliance and back-pay two Sri Lankan workers who provided cleaning services to a southeast Melbourne government school.
Teachers enlisted to train fussy eaters
Fussy eaters are hard to win over and it takes a combined effort shared between parents, carers, grandparents and teachers to help the most fussy eaters to eat healthy, varied diets during their preschool and early school years. .
Echuca school upgrades and special school
The Vic Government will invest $16.7 million to build the final two stages of the Echuca Regeneration Project, upgrading Echuca Twin Rivers Primary School and creating a new Echuca P-12 Special School.
$1 million for primary kids’ digital literacy research
An Australian Research Council (ARC) Future Fellowship awarded to Australian Catholic University’s (ACU) Prof Kathy Mills to explore how harnessing all the senses can enhance the digital literacy of primary students.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
