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2019 (19) 17 June


ET News Digest
Your Weekly Education Newsletter
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Preparing Education for Industry 4.0
Education has always been concerned with preparing children and young people with the skills and capabilities they need for a full and rewarding future. However, within this statement there exists a significant assumption: that we understand what the future will be. History has shown that as a species we are not particularly good at conceiving of futures that are radically different from what we have today, let alone designing systems to deal with them. Read more

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NESLI’s global experts to tackle education leadership in low GDP areas
The National Excellence in Schools Leadership Institute (NESLI) have announced the 10 global experts who will make up NESLI’s inaugural advisory board.
   The first item of business for the board will be ensuring equity of access for educational leadership opportunities for schools and educators in low GDP areas around the globe.
   Dr Janet Smith, Co-Chair, said: “NESLI is proud and delighted to announce the establishment of its new International Advisory Board, which consists of a diverse range of renowned global educational leadership experts who will provide us with strategic advice." Read more

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Re-wiring the brain for leadership
Neuroleadership involves leaders understanding themselves and learning to have conversations that stimulate quality thinking, hold people accountable to useful effort, create insight and behavior change, and focus people on ‘useful activity’ rather than ‘interesting distraction’.
   Michelle Loch, CEO and Founder of Leading Humans and a leader in neuroscience, says we need a new way to think about leadership and about how we lead and present ourselves.
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UQ scholarships address disadvantage
The University of Queensland (UQ) is launching a new scholarship initiative aimed at raising $30 million by 2020 to support talented students experiencing financial hardship.
   UQ Vice-Chancellor and President Prof Peter Høj AC said through the Create Change Scholarship Match initiative, UQ would invest $15 million to match funding for every donation received over $50,000.
   “Between our donors and the University, we want to raise at least $30 million to create new endowed scholarships to support students experiencing financial disadvantage,” Prof Høj said. Read more

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Jobs for teachers see most growth
Jobs are down a bit from last year according to SEEK but the good news is that wages are up and it’s still great to be a teacher or in education.
   The latest SEEK Employment Report shows a decline of 6.5% in jobs advertised compared to May 2018. Whereas, the average advertised salary across Australia rose 3.4% year on year.
   Job ad growth in industries related to public service continue to perform including Education & Training (+11.9%) and Healthcare & Medical (+3.7%). In addition, jobs ads for Mining, Resources & Energy (+5.3%) continue to rise. Read More

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Vivid Sydney shared with students from regional Australia
Mount Burr in South Australia is a long way from the bright lights of Vivid in Sydney but students from the rural community will get the opportunity to visit the emerald city and see the world-famous festival, evening up the disparity in experiences between city and regional students.
   Samsung Electronics Australia, partnered with Social Ventures Australia (SVA) to make it possible, this will be the first time on an airplane for the majority of the 24 students from Mount Burr Primary School, Nangwarry Primary School and Glencoe Central Primary School. Read more

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16 year old UWA music prodigy best in the world
Ready for a what am I doing with my life moment? Here you go; 16-year-old Shuan Hern Lee, a student from The University of Western Australia, is the first Australian to win the prestigious 2019 Cliburn International Junior Piano Competition in Dallas, Texas. He competed against more than 200 teenage applicants from 32 countries to claim the top prize.
  Lee began his music studies at UWA at the age of 14 and won the competition with his outstanding performance of Rachmaninoff’s Concerto No 3 in D minor with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra. Read more

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Education hack attacks up and looking for money
Education look out; there was a noticeable shift towards financially motivated cyber crime (80%) in educational services, 35% of all breaches were due to human error and approximately a quarter of breaches arose from web application attacks, most of which were attributable to the use of stolen credentials used to access cloud-based email.
   C-level executives – read teachers – who have access to an organisation’s most sensitive information, are now the major focus for social engineering attacks. Read more