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Education
Student engagement & technology in the classroom: igniting the fire in young learners with Eddie Woo
Technology is rapidly transforming the way students learn and teachers teach, a study found that Australia is one of the highest users of technology in schools in the OECD – so how can technology benefit Australian students and what are the costs? What can it do and what can’t it do? Wootube is a prime…
14 Dec 2018, by Informa InsightsEducation
Reimagining tertiary education
“Designing a tertiary education system for a world turned upside down by technology is a ‘wicked problem’ […] “Get it right and Australia can thrive competitively, enjoy good standards of living and have a fair and civilized society. “Get it wrong and the opposite will be true”, said Professor Stephen Parker, author of the ‘Reimagining…
18 Oct 2018, by Informa InsightsEducation
The six pillars of student wellbeing
Recent statistics suggest that Australia is in the midst of a wellbeing crisis, with rates of childhood depression and anxiety currently sitting at an all-time high. Lindfield Learning Village, a revolutionary new state school located in Sydney’s North Shore, is seeking to address this through its innovative wellbeing model, and parents are all rushing to enroll…
26 Sep 2018, by Informa InsightsEducation
How universities are implementing TEQSA’s standards
It has been almost two years since the revised Higher Education Standards (HES) Framework was introduced to the Australian higher education sector. Since then, Director of TEQSA’s Assurance Group, Dr. Michael Tomlinson, has been doing the rounds – engaging with institutions and monitoring the sector’s uptake of the new standards. Ahead of the University Governance…
7 Sep 2018, by Informa InsightsEducation | Infrastructure | Planning & Design
How vertical schools are affecting children’s health and development
Fatter, sicker, sadder. It’s a phrase planning and design expert, Dr. Tony Matthews, doesn’t particularly like, but one which quite accurately captures the way modern, urban environments are impacting our children’s health and wellbeing. “Just a few decades ago, the air was cleaner, the streets were safer and children were able to enjoy a more…
6 Sep 2018, by Amy SarcevicEducation
How the UIA has increased low income graduates by 29% (year on year)
In Australia, fewer than fifty percent of low incomes graduates complete their Higher Education (HE) degrees on time; and in the USA fewer than fifty percent complete them at all. This significant, global problem, costs governments tens of billions each year in wasted Pell grants; perpetuates cycles of poverty; and leaves countries around the world…
24 Jul 2018, by Amy SarcevicDefence & Security | Education
Defence Industry Skilling and STEM Strategy update
The Australian Government is channelling $200 billion into Defence capability over the coming decade to recapitalise the Australian Defence Force. Accompanying this is the development of the ‘Workforce Behind the Defence Force’ (WBDF) campaign – the roughly 3,000 plus SMEs and 25,000 employees that constitute Defence industry in Australia. Over the next decade, this STEM-enabled…
19 Jul 2018, by Amy SarcevicEducation
Blended learning at its finest – A Melbourne Girls Grammar School case study
In an age of technology obsession, distractibility and desensitization, the models of teaching that once served us are decreasing in relevance. Exposure to apps, television and social media channels - all vying for our attention with progressively fascinating stimuli – have hardwired the brains of young people, making it increasingly difficult to captivate their attention…
18 Jul 2018, by Amy SarcevicEducation
Teachers or Scientists – whose evidence do we want?
The word ‘evidence’ is undoubtedly one of the education sector’s biggest buzzwords this decade. In just a few years, the concept of evidence-based teaching (EBT) has achieved widespread acceptance – with few people disputing that if a teaching method is backed by ‘evidence’, it is inherently better than one which isn’t. But despite this, there…
4 Jul 2018, by Amy SarcevicEducation | Uncategorised
Higher Education for a cosmopolitan age of smart machines: the NYU experiment
The nature of work is changing. Algorithms are replacing intuition, the highest paid person’s opinion needs to be grounded in data, and digital decision-makers are outperforming real humans in an increasing number of sectors in the business world. What’s more, all of this is happening against a changing global backdrop. Neo-nationalism is competing with cosmopolitanism,…
3 Jul 2018, by Amy SarcevicInforma Connect Australia is the nation's leading event organiser. Our events comprise of large scale exhibitions, industry conferences and highly specialised corporate training.
