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Future Minds Network provides skills to land a job The Future Minds Network has helped 11,000 youths avoid poverty through employment education.

Wakakirri announces 2020 national winners Four schools have taken home the top prize in this year’s Wakakirri Challenge by each winning the national award of Story of the Year.

Guess what the Children’s Word of the Year is? The Oxford Australian 2020 Children’s Word of the Year used children’s language experts to analyse more than 50,000 short stories written by three million Australian children for this year’s Storyathon writing events.

Graduate employment down Higher education graduates across Australia have found it harder to gain employment over the last 12 months and it wasn’t just about COVID.

ABC’s award-winning app was designed with kids, for kids Australia’s No. 1 kids’ app with over one million monthly viewers, ABC Kids, was created through a highly collaborative process.

The education system needs a reality check While we students are busy choosing a career, the current education system does nothing to prepare us for the realities of our chosen fields. Time for a change.

Hard facts about soft skills Soft skills, like creativity and people management are going to be at a premium when employers are looking for new hires.

Escape Rooms to uni Escape Rooms are an innovative learning and teaching method that have student teams engage in learning games created around Escape Room hypothetical situations.

Yasodai Selvakumaran on publicity, accolades and self-reflection Last year was a big one for Rooty Hill High’s Yasodai Selvakumaran, as a finalist in the Global Teacher Prize, the following year has been busy.

A research based curriculum treating autism using social robots Using social robots to teach people with ASD to identify the subtleties of communication and respond appropriately is effective in treating the disorder.

Aussie data platform unlocks student potential Platform allows educators and schools to drive student growth and improvement through predictive and actionable data-driven insights.

VR can improve test scores The kids like Virtual Reality and while its potential as a teaching medium is just being realised, it’s been proven to help with retention and mastery of material.