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30 April 2008 Facing an apparent ‘shortfall’ of up to 123,000 skilled workers by 2015, vocational education and training leaders are calling for a HECS-style system to be implemented in the TAFE sector as a way of increasing enrolments. Read more here… Universities to form closer ties with schools 30 April 2008 A professor from The University of Melbourne’s Centre for the Study of Higher Education, Professor Richard James, believes that universities should work more closely with the disadvantaged schools in their areas. Read more here… 2020 Summit focuses on education 17 April 2008 After the conclusion of the 2020 Summit, the Productivity, Education and Innovation stream identified education as the key to improving productivity and presented a range of ideas to the Australian Government on how to maximise social capital. Read more here… 14 April 2008 The Age explores programmes schools put in place to help students become more resilient ‘when faced with life’s setbacks’. Reporter Denise Ryan, writing in the Education Age section, says ‘students with the right mindset will have more success at school and in life’. To read Denise Ryan’s article, Accentuate the Positive, click here… Students have their say in the australia 2020 summit 11 April 2008 The Minister for Education, Employment and Workplace Relations, Ms Julia Gillard, has released the Voices of the Future Schools Summits feedback report, following the 2020 Schools Summits held across Australia over the past month. Read more here... New Victorian Government Plan for Schools 8 April 2008 The Victorian Minister for Education, Ms Bronwyn Pike, and the Minister for Early Childhood Development, Ms Maxine Morand, have released three discussion papers on the Victorian Government’s proposed Blueprint for Early Childhood Development and Schools Reform. Read more here... More and better research needed for Education 8 April 2008 The Association of Independent Schools of Victoria has provided a submission to the Australia 2020 Summit to be held at Parliament House, Canberra on 19 and 20 April 2008. Read more here... National curriculum board to tackle Geography 8 April 2008 The Minister for Education, Employment and Workplace Relations, Ms Julia Gillard, has announced that she will be instructing the National Curriculum Board to create a ‘rigorous, world-class’ geography curriculum. Read more here... universities to consider a work-integrated learning scheme 2 April 2008 Universities Australia will shortly release a report that proposes that work-integrated learning be offered to all university students. The report will suggest that work placement opportunities be offered to arts, social studies and science students, as well as medicine, law and engineering students. Read more here... independent School offers Scholarships to Refugees 1 April 2008 Mentone Girls’ Grammar School wants to raise money so that it can offer scholarships to two Sudanese refugees. The school believes that the initiative is the first of its kind in Victoria to assist school-aged refugees to gain an independent school education. Read more here...
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