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Young Indigenous Australians will be encouraged to stay in school and to make the transition to work, through a $257.6 million investment in education and training. To get young Indigenous people ready for work the Gillard Government will invest in education, training and employment programs to help people to get the skills they need to get a job.
Digital imagery, Facebook updates, online music collections, email threads and other immaterial artifacts of today's online world may be as precious to teenagers as a favorite book that a parent once read to them or a t-shirt worn at a music festival. The fact that virtual possessions don't have a physical form may actually enhance their value, researchers at Carnegie Mellon's Human-Computer Interaction Institute and School of Design discovered in a study of 21 teenagers.
"Australia is the second-largest user of blogging sites in the world and we've had 2 million visits from Australians over the past year," says James Farmer, head of Edublogs. "The Victorian Department of Education is our biggest client for school blogging, with 20,000 teachers and students involved, but we also have academic bloggers from every university in the country except the Defence Force Academy."
A device that makes it easier for the visually impaired to build a picture of graphic information could soon be trialled in Victorian schools. The multimodal computer tool, known as GraVVITAS (Graphics Viewer using Vibration, Interactive Touch, Audio and Speech), has a touch-sensitive tablet PC at its core and uses vibration and sounds to guide the user around a diagram. An application has been made for an Australian Research Council Linkage Projects grant with industry partners, including Vision Australia and the Victorian Department of Education and Early Childhood Development.
The NAPLAN tests are an important aspect of a school's assessment and reporting process. For the first time the tests will be conducted under a national code of conduct that sets out the provisions for exemption from testing, all students are expected to participate and any attempt to manipulate the results will be investigated. DEEWR Media release, 10 May 2011
The Gillard Government has pledged to continue to encourage business to partner with schools to support Australian students. The Minister for School Education, Peter Garrett, today released the report, Realising Potential: Business Helping Schools to Develop Australia's Future, prepared by the Business-School Connections Roundtable, and set out the Government's response. "The education of our kids is the responsibility of the whole community, not just our schools. This report illustrates that business is ready, willing and able to work with schools to help students today and prepare them for the challenges of tomorrow," Mr Garrett said.
The Australian Computer Society has called on the government to fund education programs so every Australian can take advantage of the high-speed, $36 billion National Broadband Network. The ACS wants more investment in industry programs that ensure the country has the "appropriate ICT skill capacity to meet the growing demands? on the sector. "This would include providing students with real-life work experience relevant to their academic studies," the ACS President said in a statement.
Victorian parents, teachers and school children will come together for Education Week, starting May 15. A statewide open-door policy will have schools and kindergartens showcasing their approaches to teaching children, with exhibitions, open days, live performances and obligatory sausage sizzles.
Education Minister Martin Dixon has encouraged parents to visit their local schools during Education Week to witness the fantastic teaching and learning programs happening across the state.
The Country Education Foundation of Australia and The Origin Foundation have formed a two-year partnership which will provide support and financial assistance to help foster the education aspirations of young rural Australians. The Country Education Foundation is a not-for-profit organisation which works to ensure that as many young people as possible from rural and regional Australia have the opportunity to pursue their post high school education, training or vocation goals by providing much needed financial assistance, support and encouragement.
The National Broadband Network would help meet Australia's shortage of science professionals by encouraging more children to consider science as a career option through projects such as the multi-billion-dollar Square Kilometre Array telescope, an inquiry in Perth heard today.
