Category Archives: Education

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GIS in the Classroom

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A Conversation with Ali Pressel & Kyle Tredinnick In October 2019, Teacher Advisory Council members Ali Pressel and Kyle Tredinnick hosted a breakout session titled “StoryMaps: Building a GeoHabit” at National Geographic’s Education Summit. ArcGIS StoryMaps is a system that allows users to tell digital stories with text, interactive maps, imagery, and more. The two high school teachers


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Raise the Scarlet Standard High by Glyn Davis - Vice-Chancellor, the University of Melbourne

RAISE THE SCARLET STANDARD HIGH

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29 August 2018 AFR Higher Education Conference “Raise the Scarlet Standard High” by Glyn Davis – Vice-Chancellor, the University of Melbourne Thank you Shadow Minister. My thanks to everyone for this nomination and award, and for those generous tributes. To be valued by peers is the most important recognition possible, and I am deeply grateful. In


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John Black with Jack Dangermond - Esri User Conference 2018

MEETING WITH JACK D

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Jeanine and I are soaking up the latest GIS, Stats, AR developments at the Esri User Conference in San Diego with 18,000 other participants. EGS are development partners with Esri in Australia. We had a short meeting today with Jack D, the international President of Esri who is keenly interested in teaching kids about GIS. 


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2017 EDUCATION STATS ROUND UP

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Here is a summary of slides presented in late 2017 to Principals, Vice Principals, Business Managers and Marketers. Data is sourced from the five yearly Census results, the annual ABS school census, My School, ABS Labour Market releases, Digital Finance Analytics and Education Geographics Research. These slides show The characteristics of suburbs where each sector


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JOB MARKET CHANGES HIT SCHOOLS & UNIS

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Only about 45 per cent of year 12 students from Government schools in 2015 said they had a Bachelor degree as their main post-school destination, but the equivalent figure from non-Government year 12 completers was about 63 per cent. Our company Education Geographics profiles non-Government schools and we currently have about ten per cent of


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EDUCATION SECTOR CHANGES 2008-2015

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The Australian economy has been hit by a series of economic upheavals and mixed economic responses from Governments since the GFC of 2008. These factors have totally transformed the nature of the Australian Education Market as shown by the interractive ESRI Australia maps which can be seen by clicking on the above picture. The maps


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Impact of the GFC on Education

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Read the latest report on the impact the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) has had on education costs on Australian enrolments by sector Latest ED Stats March 2011.pdf