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Senegal's Team OwnLabs is the overall winner of Ericsson's Innovation Awards 2018 with its solution addressing the lack of school labs in Africa by offering "physics, chemistry and biology classes in virtual reality via a smartphone".

Victoria’s Chisholm Institute of TAFE has introduced a course in cyber security developed in collaboration with industry partners.

The head of one of Australia’s regional universities says the Coalition Government’s Federal Budget allocation of $96 million for regional universities is a tremendous “first down payment” in establishing a new regional deal to benefit all regional Australians.

Smart workplace provider Ricoh has announced the successful deployment of "a high-performance networking infrastructure at Perth-based Servite College".

Questacon and Samsung have renewed their technology partnership for two more years to continue inspiring and engaging teachers and young Australians in science, technology, engineering and maths through Questacon Smart Skills workshops across the country.

University tutoring platform Vygo is planning a national expansion drive after a successful rollout in major Queensland universities.

Deakin University has deployed advanced solutions from Pure Storage to support its student experiences and key digital initiatives.

Macquarie Telecom has inked its largest SD-WAN deal to date with childcare centre operator G8 Education to deploy SD-WAN services to more than 500 child care centres across Australia.

Samsung has launched a new training facility at the University of South Australia it says is one of the most technologically advanced teacher-training facilities in the country.

Global education software and services provider Tribal Group is collaborating with Microsoft to enable the organisation expand the number of educational institutions and students who can access its Student Information Systems.

The Australian Computer Society has joined other industry bodies in welcoming the Australia 2030 report on innovation from Innovation and Science Australia and called on government and Industry to embrace the recommendations.

Cyber security is the functional area where it is the most difficult to source skilled job candidates for the IT sector, with chief information officers identifying security as the area most in need of focus by IT education providers.

Carsales will launch its first ever Kids Coding Camp over two days this January at the company's headquuarters in Melbourne as part of its Go4Tech initiative.

Samsung Australia's CSR dedication to STEM is impressive, but with only 16% of students studying higher-education STEM subjects, may its efforts long continue, and be widely emulated.

Artificial intelligence will create more jobs than it eliminates by 2020, according to the latest predictions from Gartner, which predicts that one in five workers engaged in mostly non-routine tasks will rely on AI to do a job by 2022.

ICT learning provider DDLS Australia has been acquired by Arowana International, an ASX-listed operator of small and medium-sized enterprises and specialist asset manager.

The first university in the world to deploy Dropbox wall-to-wall in what is a multi-million dollar, 67,000-user agreement and deal "to power greater collaboration" is the University of Sydney. 

Australia’s education, skills and job markets will rapidly transform as digital disruption take effect, according to a new report which found that one in two Australians believe our children are not equipped with the skills needed for these changes.

HP Inc's new Kids Fund is a local programme in line with the company's global commitment, announced in July this year, "of US$20 million in technology, training and R&D funding to enable better learning outcomes for more than 100 million people by 2025".

Australia’s third largest telco, Vodafone, is partnering with technology educator, Coder Academy, in establishing a technology-centric course, Code Next, for Year 9 and 10 girls in select Sydney high schools.