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For Education Leaders

Credibility is the key to inspirational school leadership

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While there are copious amounts of material on leadership in the literature, there is very little on the topic of credibility, which is the necessary condition in the development of inspirational leaders' successes. The authors were motivated by noting a parallel between the role trajectories of school leaders and those of high-profile football and rugby coaches, where success is the key to coaching role credibility, and job certainty. Read more

Mining a rich vein of female talent

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If mining is supposed to be a bit blokey someone forgot to tell the record number of secondary school girls from across WA who attended the WA School of Mines, Curtin Kalgoorlie’s annual Girls’ Focus on Mining Camp.
   The five-day residential camp ran from January 18–22 and was attended by 48 students from schools in Perth and regional WA, which is twice the number of previous camp attendees. Read more

Financial literacy needs to be compulsory

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Lots of people aren‘t great with money and that’s probably because they haven’t had much in the way of financial training and it's odd that for something that’s so important there is relatively little of it taught in schools.
   Financial literacy is woven into the curriculum and offered to business subject students, but there is currently no subject for or clear reference to a structured financial literacy education.
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The country is not always cheaper for an education

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A tree change isn’t always going to mean a cheaper education for the kids, especially if you're in rural Queensland or Victoria.
   Country Queensland is Australia’s most expensive region for a Government and Catholic education.
   The total cost of a Government education there will be $76,588 over a 13-year period for a child starting school in 2021, 15 per cent above the national average ($66,603).
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Aussie schools needed to clean up

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Schools Clean Up Day falls on Friday 5 March 2021 with Clean Up Australia Day arriving two days later on the 7th.
   There a few weeks left to register and schools’ contributions are essential, young Australians and school communities accounted for more than 1 in 3 (38.8 per cent) of all Clean Up Australia Day volunteers in 2020.
   There’s much to do due to the surge in single-use packaging as a direct outcome of the pandemic. Read more

Cybercriminals are targeting schools, it’s time to lock them out

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The modern classroom’s foundations consist of IoT devices that enable collaboration and growth. However, while this undoubtedly brings a plethora of benefits and allows students to learn in various ways, it also leaves schools, students and teachers particularly vulnerable to cyberthreats.
   We’re in a pandemic, which saw students and staff migrate to digital classrooms in a matter of days in some cases.
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Carbon neutral Throsby Primary School, Canberra opens soon

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Extensive collaboration and an evidence based design approach for Throsby Primary in Canberra’s north will yield a bright, modern facility due to open in 2022.
   It will cost $43.9 million and will cater for 450 kindergarten to year 6 students plus 123 preschool students, with room to grow. The school is divided into learning neighbourhoods and each offers a variety of room sizes and allow for adaptation during the school year. Read more