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The article offers the author's insights on home-schooling as an alternative academic education for children among the estimated 26,000 Australian students. She says that home-schooled children, though devoid from the pressure of intensive competition as compared to modern schooling, constantly succeeds. According to John Taylor Gatto, an educator and writer, home-schooled children's ability to think is 5-10 years ahead when compared to their formally-trained peers.

The article offers information on the Terms 1 and 2 of the Victorian Student Representative Council (VicSRC) Regional Conferences to be held in various schools in Victoria from March to May 2016.

The article discusses how PTW Architects Associate Chris Bosse taught Australian students about digital architecture at the University of Technology Sydney in New South Wales. The students set up the polyhedrons into a loose mass using computers. The finished installation was called "Digital Origami" and involved light and audio.

This article offers a look at the school life of some Australian girls. An overview of one girl's home schooling experience is presented. The advantages of attending an all girls private school is discussed. The privacy provided by a boarding school is emphasized.

Presents the results of a study regarding the effect of class size on the academic achievement of students in Australia. Amount spent by Queensland and Victoria to reduce average class sizes since 2002; Information on a study conducted in the U.S. to determine the impact of class size on student progress; Ways to improve student performance according to educational authorities in the U.S., Australia and Great Britain.

The article announces that a team of Australian students including Samuel Alsop, Alexander Turner and Chenming Tang, won 13 medals from the International Science Olympiads in Biology, Chemistry and Physics held on July 15-24, 2013 in Russia.

The article announces the Australian students who won in the 2010 International Science Olympiads for Chemistry including Cyril Tang, Allan Chau and Kelvin Cheung.

The article focuses on the legacy campaign 1GOAL--Education for All organized by the Federation international de football association (FIFA) World Cup, which opens a video competition for Australian high students explaining ways on how to work with the elimination of global poverty.

In this article the author discusses the aspects of digital education revolution (DER) relative to thinking and learning in Australia. He is critical of the measures undertaken by government of Prime Minister Kevin Rudd in dealing with the issue. Also investigated is the benefits that the Australian students can get on the computers offered by Kevin Rudd to them.

The article focuses on the New South Wales (NSW) Refugee Student Assistance Scheme developed in 2009 which entitles students in NSW public schools and Technical and Further Education (TAFE) to have limited financial education assistance.

The article reports on major organizations composed of parents, teachers and principals which called on Australian Deputy Prime Minister and Education Minister Julia Gillard to prevent the creation and publication of misleading and damaging school league tables. The group expressed their concern that the program threatens the future opportunities of Australian students. The groups are also in search of risk-management process that will ensure positive consequences

The article reports that Year 12 Birdwood High School student Olias Bartel in South Australia will join other student delegates from around the world for real-life astronaut training. He is one of only two Australian students to win a spot at the 2009 International Space Camp in Huntsville, Alabama. He expresses his excitement to head off to the state. As part of the training, student delegates will be doing scuba diving into a big tank and a pretend repair mission.

The article reports on the suggestion by Australian Minister for Education and Deputy Prime Minister Julia Gillard that the British government should consider Australia's tuition fee system called the Australian Higher Education Contribution Scheme (Hecs). The Scheme charges Australian students 25 percent of their course costs and they can either pay it upfront with a 20 percent discount or defer payment until they have completed their degrees and pay it according to income. Neil Gorman of Nottingham Trent University expressed his support for Hecs.

The article offers information on Aistudy and how it can provide support for students and Australian apprentices aged 25 or over studying fulltime. Data is provided on eligibility requirements, the amount that applicants can receive and how they can claim the aid. Information is also provided on how the Student Income Bank works.

The article compares two school students, a girl from Kabul, Afghanistan, and a girl from Melbourne, Australia. The article compares their favorite school subjects, their after-school activities, the number of children in their schools, the year their schools were built, the number of generations of females in their families who have attended school, and what career they would like to end up in.

The article reports on the unexplained decline in enrollment of students in universities' information technology courses. The Australian Computer Society data reported that in New South Wales, there is a 20 percent decline in application in IT courses. The possible reasons for the decline includes the high profile business programs that attracts more students and the increase demand in the IT sector which means that students are going directly to the workforce then taking up their degrees afterwards. Thus, ACS President Edward Mandla says that IT professors should reformat the content of IT courses.

This article hears the story of how an Australian student named April Stringer survived two accidents that almost killed her. Only weeks after being in a serious car crash, Stringer was almost killed by a falling tree. This time Stringer suffered serious chest and leg injuries when she was crushed by a tree which smashed through her bedroom during a fierce electrical storm on the Gold Coast.

Reports on the concerns of Australian universities over the potential reduction to their federal grants if foreign institutions demand government funding under the General Agreements on Trade in Services (Gats). Provisions of Gats that could force the government to give subsidies to foreign universities offering courses to Australian students; Effects of financial aid received by foreign institutions on the funding for local universities; Amount of loan that can be borrowed by students through the federal loans scheme.

The article focuses on the Isolated Children's Parents' Association (ICPA). Through the Isolated Children's Parents' Association thousands of parents in Australia's tiniest towns and remote areas can bend the ears of national politicians and state education leaders who make the rules for schools in a nation similar in geographic size to the United States but with less than one-tenth the population. Founded in 1971 by a farmer to push for more money and attention to families teaching their own children in remote areas, the ICPA also highlights the needs of small schools in Australia.

Presents information on the results of a study conducted by Diego De Leo, director of the Australian Institute for Suicide Research and Prevention at Griffith University in Brisbane, Queensland, and researcher Travis Heller regarding the deliberate self-harm (DSH) behaviour among Australian youth. Number of students who participated in the study; Goal of the study; Percentage of students who overdosed themselves with medications; Factors associated with DSH.

Comments on the slow progress made by successive Australian governments to improve university access for young people from disadvantaged backgrounds. Proportion of university students from low socioeconomic backgrounds; Reasons behind the lack of progress; Contribution of the country's educational financial support system to the situation.

Reports on the debt of Australians for the differed university tuition payments to the federal government of the state. Amount owed by the students with a three-year bachelors degree; Manner of paying the debt.

This essay describes the ideological foundation of peace education and documents instructional activities that Australian students from Pulteney Grammar School have undertaken to promote world peace. " Pulkids" share their ideas of peace in their website. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article reports on the Beach Bums Academy campaign of airline company Cebu Pacific which aims to draw Australian students to the Philippines over breaks.

Students from St Columba Anglican School in NSW will participate in experiments on the International Space Station (ISS). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article provides information about the compressed air-powered motorbike designed by the professor and the students of an industrial course at Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University in Australia. It states that the students aim to set a land-speed record at Australia's Speed Week and based the design project on an air-powered engine made by Angelo Di Pietro. It mentions that there are two compressed air tanks supplied in the motorbike with a Suzuki GP100 body design.

The article focuses on the services offered by the Logistics Association of Australia (LAA). Members of the organization are encouraged to sign up to the LAA LinkedIn Groups. The Logistics Development Award will be given to members. The LAA has also launched undergraduate scholarships available to students who are Australian residents.

An Australian team of young students has taken out top honours in the Software Design invitational competition at Microsoft's Imagine Cup 2008 global finals at the Musee du Louvre, Paris. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Both young men and women are walking away from secondary school studies that could lead to careers in IT, with young women turning away faster than their male counterparts, according to the Dean of Charles Sturt University's Faculty of Education. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Reports on the overseas employment of Australian accounting students. Awards presented by the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia to students with placements to work with overseas accounting firms; Demonstration on how portable the chartered accountant qualification to the students; Job vacancy for the accounting graduates.