Minister for Indigenous Employment and Economic Development Mark Arbib launched the Indigenous Youth Careers Pathways Program (IYCP) on 16 May 2011. Starting in the 2012 school year, IYCP will give up to 6400 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students the opportunity to get a school-based traineeship. The program will assist Indigenous students in years 10 to 12 in targeted high schools, with mentoring and case management to help them deal with issues that make the transition from school to work difficult. The Budget initiative is funded for $50.7 million over four years.
The first mainland test site is officially launched by Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, who took the opportunity to flag more funding for a Digital Regions Initiative project.
The first mainland test site is officially launched by Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, who took the opportunity to flag more funding for a Digital Regions Initiative project.
Australian Jobs 2011 presents information for people exploring careers or education and training options, as well as those currently looking for work or wanting assistance to enter or re-enter the labour market. The publication includes information about employment trends by region, occupation and industry, together with projected employment growth and job prospects.
Australian Jobs 2011 presents information for people exploring careers or education and training options, as well as those currently looking for work or wanting assistance to enter or re-enter the labour market. The publication includes information about employment trends by region, occupation and industry, together with projected employment growth and job prospects.
THE University of Notre Dame Australia has been granted $165,000 by the Australian Government Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations to investigate how technology tools, including mobile technologies and software programmes can enhance the learning and teaching of mathematical concepts to promote understanding.
Developing digital information and communications technology educational (ICTE) resources for mathematics is just one branch of the groundbreaking $7.8m Teaching Teachers for the Future Project. The Record Catholic Newspaper Perth, 18 May 2011
THE University of Notre Dame Australia has been granted $165,000 by the Australian Government Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations to investigate how technology tools, including mobile technologies and software programmes can enhance the learning and teaching of mathematical concepts to promote understanding.
Developing digital information and communications technology educational (ICTE) resources for mathematics is just one branch of the groundbreaking $7.8m Teaching Teachers for the Future Project. The Record Catholic Newspaper Perth, 18 May 2011
Five million pages of Australian newspapers have now been digitised through the National Library's Australian Newspaper Digitisation Program. That's the equivalent of 350 metres of newspapers, or a newspaper stack as high as Uluru. Search the newspapers online using Trove at http://trove.nla.gov.au/ to find your piece of Australian history.
Prime Minister Julia Gillard will today switch on the first site of the National Broadband Network on mainland Australia. Ms Gillard and Communications Minister Stephen Conroy will turn on the site at a secondary school in Armidale in northern New South Wales. Armidale is one of five first-release test sites where fibre optic cable has been laid for the broadband network. Areas in Melbourne, Townsville, coastal New South Wales and South Australia will also be switched on in coming months.
The Tertiary Education Minister, Chris Evans, has appointed an international expert, Ms Alison Johns, to assist in the transition of programs from the Australian Learning and Teaching Council (ALTC) into the Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations.
Ms Johns is currently a senior executive with the Higher Education Funding Council for England. She has had 20 years experience in higher education leadership, policy, governance and management in the United Kingdom. Senator Evans said her independent knowledge of the Australian higher education sector will be invaluable to the transition process.
