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Construction has started on the first of 139 schools in South Australia receiving infrastructure overhauls in the state government’s $250 million STEM works programme.

Five remote schools in the Catholic Education Northern Territory (CENT) have migrated to a new Web-based software system from IT outsourcing services company Civica.

Parents are embracing technology to help their kids learning at school and are ready to ‘swap book lists for app lists’, according to newly released research from NBN.

NEC is working with the Northern Territory Department of Education to facilitate delivery of services that connect two schools in East Timor to the internet for the first time.

The Victorian Government has been ordered by the Federal Court to pay back millions of dollars to teachers and principals in the state’s education system for making illegal deductions from their salaries to pay for access to laptop computers.

The ACS Foundation is broadening its Big Day In career information program, expanding it to include primary school children.

There’s a new way for schools to keep parents fully in the loop about school events, excursions, communications and much more: Australian app School Stream.

Ruckus Wireless and Brocade have deployed a joint Ruckus Smart Wi-Fi wireless and Brocade wired network infrastructure solution for two school districts in the US to support 21st century digital learning techniques.

Education software development provider TrackOne Studio has come together with IT solutions company Data#3 to market TrackOne’s data analytics solutions to the education sector throughout Australia.

Young primary, secondary and tertiary students will teach older people how to use tablet technologies and mobile devices in a new program launched by the City of Stonnington in Melbourne.

AVG’s latest Digital Diaries Study shows tweens are digitally doctoring their images before sharing online, leading to potentially damaging consequences for young girls and boys.

Australia’s National Science and Technology Centre, Questacon, has come together with Samsung Electronics to launch a technology partnership to support future inventors, technologists and entrepreneurs.

Ballarat’s Federation College has been chosen as the second pilot site for an IBM-supported school-industry partnership to help students enter the workforce job-ready.

Finally, parents, tweens and teens are getting real to the cyber threats of online attacks, cyber bulling, risky online behaviour and more, according to Intel Security’s latest report.

Australia’s I CT sector is on the verge of a mini jobs boom over the next six years, but the predicted demand for IT professionals is tempered by a continuing and worrying decline in the number of graduates with ICT qualifications.

Australian IT software and services provider, Anittel and WA-based Next Learning are claiming a first of its kind approach to professional development for teachers with a newly established partnership.

A joint initiative by government, industry and the National Science and Technology Centre, Questacon, has given students from secondary schools in three states experience with the cutting-edge of design technology.

Aruba Networks says it is making inroads into the primary and higher education sectors to meet strong market demand, signing up new Australian customers, as Australia shifts towards "all-wireless" classrooms.

The Australian Computer Society (ACS) in South Australia wants digital technologies to be introduced as a mandatory subject in the state’s school system and has called on the state government to place a higher priority on promoting ICT skills and digital literacy.  

Well-resourced school libraries are linked to improved literacy for students, according to a national survey by library management solutions provider Softlink.