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Mining scholarships for CQ students

March 26, 2010 By vani Leave a Comment

Several Central Queensland students have been awarded scholarships to encourage them to take up careers in the mining industry.

The Queensland Resources Council’s Chief Executive Michael Roche says the scholarships help young people move to resources related subjects as a way to address the skills shortage.

The Education Minister Geoff Wilson presented scholarships worth two-thousand-500 dollars to Jessica Murphy from Emerald High School, Chantel Selmanovic from Toolooa High in Gladstone, and Jess White from North Rockhampton High School.

There were also 500 dollar teacher recognition awards presented to students from Leanne Colthup from Moranbah High School, North Rockhampton student Victoria Neilsen, and Shannon Smith from Blackwater High School.

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Geraldton ‘an ideal Indonesian hub’

March 24, 2010 By vani Leave a Comment

Labor’s spokesman for multicultural interests, John Hyde, has called on the State Government to make Geraldton a specialist centre for the teaching of Bahasa.

The former John Wilcox College teacher says the recent construction of four language laboratories at the school makes it an ideal choice to become a ‘hub high school’ for Indonesia’s official language.

The Labor MP’s call coincides with this week’s visit to Geraldton by a delegation from the Indonesian Consul General.

Mr Hyde says by designating a Geraldton secondary school as a language hub, more primary schools will be encouraged to teach the language.

“There are tremendous education advantages in the many students who are studying languages, such as Indonesian at primary school, being able to continue their studies with a real native teacher in secondary school,” he said.

He has written to Education Minister Liz Constable asking her to look closely at the request.

“The State Government needs to take a leadership role to make Geraldton the language hub for Indonesian learning in regional Western Australia,” he said.

“WA’s closest neighbour is Indonesia. There’s recognition that our relationship with Indonesia is very important.”

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Geraldton Yr 12s keen on science: survey

March 23, 2010 By vani Leave a Comment

The Geraldton Universities Centre says more science-based courses will be offered in the region as interest in the area grows.

A survey of Year 12 students in Geraldton has found nearly a third of those wanting to pursue higher education are interested in a science course.

The survey found nearly half the students wanting to go to university or TAFE would prefer to study in Geraldton.

The centre’s director, Meredith Wills, says the region’s tertiary education providers are keen to meet the growing demand for science-based courses.

“We’ve been very encouraged by the strong interest in science and that was really brought about by the WA chief scientist, Lyn Beazley, working in our region with school students and with the Durack Institute and the Geraldton Universities Centre over the past two years,” she said.

“We’re now working closely with Curtin and Durack to offer new science options in Geraldton next year.”

Ms Wills says Australia’s bid to host the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) – the world’s most powerful telescope – in the Murchison region has attracted a lot of local attention.

“There’s a fair general interest in astronomy and an understanding within that that there’s opportunities in the mining industry as well with engineering and science,” she said.

“I think our region is seeing that we should be really looking to train up for these areas and of course the kids who are in school now are the ideal workforce.”

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Plans to sell agricultural school land dropped

March 19, 2010 By vani Leave a Comment

The New South Wales Government has abandoned plans to sell off farm land around Hurlstone Agricultural High School, after an independent review recommended against the sale.

The Government wanted to sell off 140 hectares of land at south-western Sydney school, with half the proceeds returned to fund additional capital works at the school.

Parents and students at the school disagreed with the sell-off and campaigned to stop the sale, which they say was announced without consultation in 2008.

Last May, the former President of the New South Wales Farmers Federation, Mal Peters, was appointed to head an independent inquiry into the sale.

The Government now says it will adopt his recommendation that 10 hectares at the western edge of the site be put up for sale, with all profits used to revitalise the school.

Greens MP John Kaye has welcomed the decision but says the State Government needs to clarify the details of its plan.

“At last the Government has admitted its huge mistake in trying to sell off land at the agricultural high school,” he said.

“The government still needs to clarify whether the school maintains control over its farm and the boarding school.”

The school’s Principal, John Norris, says he is “delighted” with the State Government’s decision.

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Popular schools would take more students: ALP

March 17, 2010 By vani Leave a Comment

Labor has promised to spend $60 million to expand four popular Adelaide secondary schools.

Its proposed expansion would create up to 800 extra student places at Marryatville, Glenunga, Brighton and Adelaide High.

During the election campaign, the Opposition has promised it would build a second Adelaide High School campus to help meet growing demand.

Education Minister Jane Lomax-Smith says the school community favours its plan over the Liberal one.

“We’ve listened to their requests. They don’t want a split campus, they don’t want a school of over 2,100 children as proposed by the Liberals and they don’t want to be split over two sites,” she said.

“The school community want a modest expansion of 250 children, they want it on site and they particularly want it to fit with the parklands setting and the heritage buildings.”

Labor also says it will build six centres to deal with problem students if it is re-elected in Saturday’s election.

The behaviour centres would hold up to 20 problem students at a time.

Dr Lomax-Smith says they would be put at existing schools.

“Of the six new centres, two will be in regional South Australia and we’ve committed to working with school communities to work out where there’s the greatest need in order to locate these centres in schools that want to host them and that negotiation will occur over the next few months,” she said.

Liberal education spokesman David Pisoni says it copies a West Australian idea and he argues more funding would be needed for such centres to work properly.

“Based on the thousand placements that was mentioned by the minister, they’re looking at an average stay of eight days per student,” he said.

“The West Australian experience tells us that we need anything from a term or a year to make a difference for these badly-behaved children.”

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July 10, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

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The Boardm Of Secondary Education, Rawalpindi Conducted the Rawalpindi Board HSSC Annual Exam 2009 on 30th of July 2009.

Rawalpindi Board HSSC Annual Exam 2009 Results have been declaerd.

These Result are available on :

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2. http://www.biserwp.edu.pk

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Bombay High Court scraps quota formula for college admissions

July 7, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Mumbai, July 6 (IANS) Bombay High Court Monday struck down the Maharashtra government’s proposal to reserve 90 percent of college seats in the state for students from the state board.
The government had proposed only 10 percent of seats in junior colleges for students from Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) and the Indian School Certificate Examinations (ISCE). The rest were for students passing the Class 10 exam conducted by the Maharashtra State Board for Secondary and Higher Secondary Education.

Spelling a major setback to the state government, a division bench of the high court comprising Chief Justice Swatanter Kumar and Justice S.C. Dharmadhikari also lambasted the authorities for taking a “hasty decision” in the matter.

This is the second time in two years that the court has pulled up the government for its attempt to ensure that over 200,000 students of the state board get the measured share of seats and that the 25,000 students from other boards did not get an upper hand in admissions to prestigious colleges.

The judges’ ruling came in the final hearing of a plethora of petitions challenging the government resolution on the 90:10 seat sharing formula, which they termed as “arbitrary, un-constitutional and taken without application of mind”.

The judgement was welcomed by parents of students hailing from the CBSE/ICSE boards who were anxiously waiting for the admissions to begin for the junior colleges for the academic year 2009-2010.

The court said the decision was brought in for political ambitions and to favour the local board students. It “itself was self-contradictory, self-discriminative and conflicting with the objectives with which it was introduced”, the judges observed.

The court felt that the classification of students as coming from the state board and non state boards was “artificial and imaginary”.

Chief Minister Ashok Chavan asserted that they would not challenge the order in the Supreme Court. “We respect the court order,” he said.

Chavan said the 90:10 formula decision was taken after due consideration of the number of students from the state board and non-state boards.

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Mining scholarships for CQ students

Geraldton ‘an ideal Indonesian hub’

Geraldton Yr 12s keen on science: survey

Plans to sell agricultural school land dropped

Popular schools would take more students: ALP

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