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Girls enjoy more sporting options

Girls enjoy more sporting options

Touch football is just as popular as netball at St Hilda’s, an independent day and boarding school for girls on the Gold Coast. AFL is one of the most popular sports at the school. “We have touch football, cricket, AFL, soccer,” says head of the school’s Athena Sports Program Lisa Cleverly. “Some of them are …read more

Navigating the challenges of educational AI

Navigating the challenges of educational AI

Australian schools are increasingly using artificial intelligence tools for assessment and teacher assistance; to help provide individualised feedback to students and create new ways of learning. However, the take-up has been patchy, says Therese Hopfenbeck, director of the ­Assessment & Evaluation Research Centre (AERC) at the University of Melbourne, adding: “From a ­research perspective, we …read more

Values at the core of an all-round education

Values at the core of an all-round education

Australia’s intense focus on nationwide numeracy and literacy test scores such as NAPLAN has made almost no difference to students’ measurable literacy and numeracy over time and comes at the expense of “values education”, says Dr Chris Duncan, CEO of the Association of Heads of Independent Schools of Australia (AHISA). “I think the model has …read more

Heavy trucks hit the switch to a net-zero future

Heavy trucks hit the switch to a net-zero future

A battery-pack system to power heavy trucks, potentially transforming a sector of the transport industry widely considered one of the most difficult to decarbonise, has been pioneered by Janus Electric Ltd. The battery packs fit on the side of prime movers in the place of diesel fuel tanks and they can be swapped for recharged …read more

Aspen Medical at heart of health services

Aspen Medical at heart of health services

It took just 72 hours for Aspen Medical to set up a comprehensive clinic to support fleeing Afghan nationals after the Taliban overran Afghanistan in August 2021. The chaotic mass evacuation known as the Kabul Airlift began within days of the Taliban takeover, and the Australian department of foreign affairs (DFAT) contracted Aspen Medical to …read more

Veterans’ skills, discipline real job-ready attributes post-ADF

Veterans’ skills, discipline real job-ready attributes post-ADF

Employers should consider taking the time to talk person to person with ex-service people, says former Lance Bombardier Peter Sanderson. Ex-service people understand how to work in teams; they know how to give and follow orders; and they understand the importance of task completion, he says. Importantly, ex-service people might not even know how their …read more

How a passion for tech led Angela Gadaev to the far side of the world

How a passion for tech led Angela Gadaev to the far side of the world

Angela Gadaev arrived in Australia in 1991 with one suitcase and one dollar. Born in Belarus, 100 kilometres from Chernobyl, she had degrees in mathematics and computer science from Francisk Skorina Gomel State University in her home country, a passion for technology and the performing arts, and not much English. She knew, though, she wanted …read more

How this leader turned around a suffering retail brand

How this leader turned around a suffering retail brand

Christelle Young has been the managing director of boutique tea brand T2 Tea for about a year and she has already overhauled the management structure, closed several under-performing retail stores and cut redundant items from the product line. With 62 retail outlets across Australia, New Zealand and Singapore, T2 Tea sells a variety of specialist …read more

Opening doors to career path and better life for students

Opening doors to career path and better life for students

Western Sydney is Australia’s epicentre of growth and opportunity with a burgeoning population of 2.7 million people and a booming demand for higher education, says Western Sydney University (WSU) vice-chancellor Professor George Williams. Two-thirds of the Western Sydney University’s students are the first in their families to have taken the plunge into higher education. “We …read more

Decades of research deliver lifesaving hope for children

Decades of research deliver lifesaving hope for children

Until recently, ten or twelve babies born in the ACT and NSW died of a disease known as spinal muscular atrophy before they reached their second birthdays. Children’s Medical Research Institute director Professor Roger Reddel says children born with spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) were often healthy for a while and then began to regress. “Even if …read more