Policy and Research
The Australian Government has announced a package of measures to support children with autism and their families and teachers. The package contains new Medicare items, early intervention measures and two specific education-related measures:
- $16.3 million for professional development for teachers and other school staff, addressing special learning needs; and
- $7 million for workshops and information sessions to provide better support for parents and carers.
For more information on the new measures, visit: http://www.pm.gov.au/media/Release/2007/Media_Release24599.cfm and http://www.dest.gov.au/schools/autism
The Australian government is inviting community feedback on how the government can utilise new internet technologies, such as blogs, to better consult with people. Responses can be submitted up to 1 December 2007.
The Australian Government is funding 878 new projects to more than $300 million over the next five years under the Australian Research Council’s Discovery Projects scheme. The projects will include collaborations with researchers in 75 countries, including the USA, UK, Germany, Canada, France, China, Japan, the Netherlands, Sweden, India, Indonesia, South Africa and Russia.
For more information, visit http://www.arc.gov.au.
Indigenous Australian researchers from five universities will share in $1.12 million over three years to undertake projects in areas such as Indigenous education, violence prevention, climate change and reconciliation through sport, under the Australian Government's Discovery Indigenous Researchers Development scheme. Announcing the latest round of funding from the Australian Research Council (ARC), the Minister for Education, Science and Training, the Hon Julie Bishop MP, said that seven Indigenous researchers or research team leaders, four female and three male, had been successful.
The Australian Government will provide $62.3 million to more than 200 new collaborative research projects to be conducted over the next five years. The projects, funded under the Australian Research Council's (ARC) Linkage Projects scheme, also attracted commitments of more than $95 million from more than 400 partner organisations, including businesses, community organisations, industry bodies and other public sector agencies.
For more information, visit http://www.arc.gov.au.
More widespread university education means more prosperous economies and provides rich rewards in the labour market for those who graduate. Furthermore, the job prospects for the less well qualified do not appear to be damaged by the expansion of higher education and may even be improved, according to the latest edition of the OECD's annual Education at a Glance.
JISC wishes to commission a project to identify how personalisation can be supported in its services in conjunction with federated access management. In particular, clear recommendations on how authorisation and attributes within federated architectures can support and encourage personalisation in the Information Environment (IE) are required.
The closing date for receipt of tenders is 12 noon on Wednesday 17 th October 2007.
Funding of up to £90,000 (inclusive of VAT and related travel and subsistence) is available for the study.
The Carrick Institute is running a project ideas workshop in Melbourne on 5 December 2007 for those interested in applying for funding under the Leadership Program. It will be an opportunity to discuss project proposal ideas and received feedback from peers and experienced academic leaders.
Visit the Grants Scheme events and activities page for further information.
This report looks at whether pre-apprenticeships increase the potential supply of tradespeople, with a special focus on electrotechnology, automotive and engineering students. It found that pre-apprenticeships are favoured by employers because they weed out unsuitable candidates and improve retention, while apprentices see them as a useful way of gaining experience in the trade.
The study explains what factors encourage young people to pursue an apprenticeship. Information from students and courses indicates that the key drivers of apprenticeship uptake are intrinsic interest and academic ability. School students with higher academic ability are less interested in apprenticeships.
This publication presents an analysis of training activity undertaken by apprentices and trainees in Australia in the period from 1996 to 2006. It provides some summary data, as well as additional information on training rates, completion rates, training within the trades, training duration, and prior education.
The Le@rning Federation (TLF) has released exciting new online curriculum content for the September 2007 quarter:
- 13 new learning objects, designed to assist students to develop and practise their Indonesian language skills in rich multimedia interactive environments, have been published in the Indonesian Online series.
- Timeline: Chiu family story and Ad campaign: TV show: level 1 are some of the new learning objects in the Literacy curriculum area.
- The Seasons series is now complete with four new learning objects released in this quarter.
The highlight this quarter is the first release into the TLF digital resource pool of searchable information about, and links to, selected moving-image clips from the Australian Film Commission’s australianscreen online project.
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