Items Tagged With "Students"
Pilot to increase cyber-safety in schools (News)
The Government is deeply concerned about the emergence of cyber-bullying in schools and the impact it is having on students, and will provide $3 million for a national pilot of a world-first cyber-safety initiative.
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The Minister for Education, Julia Gillard, today announced the 164 schools selected to take part in a national pilot project to address cyber-safety.
The Australian Government is providing $3 million for the world-first cyber safety initiative developed and conducted by child safety charity, the Alannah and Madeline Foundation.
Coalition Senators delay ESOS bill again (News)
This is an important piece of legislation to ensure confidence in this critical industry and to give certainty to education providers and students.
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*Release with Kim Carr
The Coalition, the Greens and independent Senators have today voted to delay the passage of the Education Services for Overseas Students Amendment (Re-registration of Providers and Other Measures) Bill 2009.
This is the second time that they have undermined the Government’s legislative program on this Bill.
Infrastructure spending supports Indigenous students (News)
Two boarding schools in Queensland enrolling Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students have received a $1.9 million boost in infrastructure funding from the Rudd Government.
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Two boarding schools in Queensland enrolling Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students have received a $1.9 million boost in infrastructure funding from the Australian Government.
The schools are Djarragun College in Gordonvale, which will receive just over $1 million, and Shalom Christian College in Condon, which will receive $920 000.
The Minister for Education, Julia Gillard, congratulated the two schools and commended them for their contributions to the educational welfare and achievements of their Indigenous students.
Parent School Quality Surveys added to My School (News)
The survey could canvass the ethos of the school and those issues that matter to parents and students such as the level of respect, quality of relationships, culture of the school and whether the school gives students a fair go.
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*Release with Julia Gillard
The My School website provides more information about all of Australia’s nearly 10,000 schools than has ever been available to the parents before.
It provides a report card for each school with rich information about the number of students, the number of teachers, attendance rates, literacy and numeracy outcomes from NAPLAN and the background of students going to the school.
$527M in unclaimed Education Tax Refund (News)
Back to school costs put extra financial pressure on families at this time of year and the Government introduced the $4.4 billion Education Tax Refund to take some of that pressure off family budgets.
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* Release with Wayne Swan
The Rudd Government is encouraging Australian families to keep their receipts from education related expenses so they can take advantage of the Education Tax Refund (ETR).
Figures from the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) have revealed that only half of all eligible Australian families have lodged a claim, leaving more than $500 million in unclaimed benefits.
Back to school costs obviously put extra financial pressure on Australian families at this time of year.
My School website to go live tomorrow (News)
My School will give parents and the wider community more information than they have ever had before about their local school and how it is performing in the foundation subjects of literacy and numeracy.
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From tomorrow morning, all Australian parents, teachers and school communities will have access to comprehensive information on every school in the country through the new My School website.
My School will give parents and the wider community more information than they have ever had before about their local school and how it is performing in the foundation subjects of literacy and numeracy.
My School will contain a school report card on the almost 10 000 government, independent and Catholic schools across Australia.
$1.42 billion for higher education research (News)
Universities will receive Rudd Government funding totalling $1.42 billion in 2010 for research that drives excellence and collaboration, and for the training of the next generation of Australian researchers.
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Australian universities will receive federal funding for research and research training totalling $1.42 billion in 2010.
The funding, formally announced in Adelaide today by the Minister for Innovation, Industry, Science and Research, Senator Kim Carr, will be shared by 41 universities Australia-wide.
Included in the 2010 Research Block Grants are:
* $610 million for the Research Training Scheme, which meets the cost of tuition for students completing PhDs and Masters degrees by research;
Study shows negotiation can cut bullying (News)
New Australian research on the ‘Method of Shared Concern’ seeks to resolve cases of bullying without the use of punishment by empowering students who have contributed to bullying or become aware of bullying to act.
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The Minister for Education, Julia Gillard, today released Australian research on the ‘Method of Shared Concern’ which seeks to resolve cases of bullying without the use of punishment.
This approach seeks to empower students who have contributed to bullying or become aware of bullying to act.
The Government understands that there is not a one-size-fits-all solution to bullying in our schools but has been determined to provide teachers and school leaders with a range of tools to help them deal with bullying.
