TWO private schools that compete for students in Melbourne's outer south-east are having merger talks. Toorak College and The Peninsula School have announced a feasibility study into the benefits of merging the two Mornington Peninsula schools. The talks could lead to a merger by 2008. It is true that we have some significant differences
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CensusAtSchool Data Now Available. Over 112,000 students from 2,744 schools nationwide have completed the first stage of this project - the questionnaire stage. Data from the questionaire is now available to teachers and students. Also available from the website are prepared samples, tables and classroom resources. The data gained from the questionnaire can be applied to a range of classroom…
EdNA Begins Change from VET to VTE. Over the next few months, references to the term vocational education and training (VET) on the EdNA web site will be amended to vocational and technical education (VTE) to bring the site into line with changes made at the national level. This will include the newsletter which will be VTE and ACE e-News…
State-wide Youth Engagement Forum. Are you interested in Community Based VCAL Programmes? This forum is for Community VCAL practitioners, managers and stakeholders who collaborate to create alternative and engaging education programs for young people who are disengaged from mainstream schooling. Youth Commitments. This is for LLEN members and stakeholders interested in establishing a collaborative regional approach to sharing responsibility for…
Talkback Classroom to Discuss Politics, Youth and Career with Stott Despoja. South Australian Senator and former Democrats leader Natasha Stott Despoja will discuss politics, youth and her career with three students in a Talkback Classroom interview on Wednesday 12 October 2005, at the National Museum of Australia in Canberra. [Source:School Education Headlines]
Bandwidth Overload!. In the last 24 hours, the Central Ranges LLEN Website and our "Voices from the Future" website have experienced a relatively huge spike in the number of downloads and subscriptions to our three Podcasts! We have experienced a 15000% [yes that's right] increase in bandwidth use overnight. The rate is currently still climbing! This is an excellent result,…
Apple earnings quadruple - but shares plunge. Smh.com.au - Wed Oct 12, 03:23 am GMT [News4Sites - Australia Economy]
Yahoo Seizes Podcast Initiative . Yahoo Inc. introduced a test site yesterday devoted exclusively to downloadable audio programs known as podcasts, a move that some say puts the search engine on the forefront of a cutting edge technology and puts it ahead -- at least in this arena -- of its biggest competitor, Google. By Mike Musgrove. [washingtonpost.com - Business]
Useit.Com: R.I.P. WYSIWYG. For the last twenty-five years, one user interface style has reigned supreme: the Macintosh-style graphical user interface. It's now reached its limits, however, and will be replaced by a style that partly reverses some of its most treasured interaction principles. [Tomalak's Realm]