Senior Secondary School Students Perceptions of the World of Work. A new report into the perceptions of work held by senior secondary school students provides a valuable insight into the current skills shortage and youth unemployment rate by uncovering a significant mismatch between student career aspirations and the reality of the labour market. The study of 3,018 year 10, 11…
Monthly Archives September 2005
After a Four year study, the University of Bristol has concluded that teachers are failing to take advantage of IT in the classroom. The ESRC funded study focused on 10 institutions and explored ways in which IT could be used in English, history, geography, modern languages, science, music and mathematics lessons. Link: Teachers Fear Computers In The Classroom.
The world education database is designed to offer educators, administrators and schools a single source to locate and disseminate educational material globally. It includes over 220,000 schools in 158 countries, and Ministries and Authorities in 147 countries. Link: World Education Database.
Alan Brody, Evan Ziporyn, Jay Scheib, Krzysztof Wodiczko High tech tools have become a means for both creating and communicating art. For some of the symposium panelists, this poses a mixed blessing. Evan Ziporyn describes the evolution of his musical composition... Link: Art and Technology.
The study of 3,018 year 10, 11 and 12 students from financially disadvantaged backgrounds, funded by the AMP Foundation and conducted by the Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER) for The Smith Family, found that a majority of students are identifying preferred career paths based on their skills and personal interests with little to no understanding of the availability of…
The tenth anniversary of Adult Learners' Week (ALW) in Australia was celebrated from 1-8 September, with hundreds of events, workshops and open days providing learning opportunities for adult learners and supporting the event theme of 'a pathway to adult learning in your community and workplace'. The major national event was 'Learn @ Work Day', with the goal of drawing attention…
Prime Minister John Howard says he is delighted the Senate has finally passed legislation to sell Telstra. Link: Howard delighted as Telstra sale cleared.
Podcasting News, 4:45:07 AM. NASA Astronaut Steve Robinson First Podcaster From Space. NASA has announced that STS-114 Mission Specialist Steve Robinson has transmitted the first "podcast" from space. The recording was made on the Space Shuttle Discovery, in orbit over Indonesia. No podcast newsfeed is available at this time, but NASA has published an MP3 download. Above photo: Podcaster and…
Hear the Big Pop? A Chinese Search Engine Went Public. The driving force behind the spectacular market debut of shares in the Chinese search engine company Baidu.com was its resemblance and ties to Google. By DAVID BARBOZA. [NYT > Technology]
12