Indigenous News Update – Education

by Robbo on 01/12/2009

News

Latest survey by the ABS on Indigenous education, employment and health shows we wont close the gap by 2020 http://bit.ly/77BfI1

Appointment of the third Indigenous Higher Education Advisory Council to provide advice to government http://bit.ly/6V0plG

Govt target to halve the gap in literacy & numeracy for indigenous students was very ambitious. Glacial progress so far http://bit.ly/1Vr6Ay

Draft Indigenous Education Action Plan released. Aim is to bring about both systemic and local-level improvements http://bit.ly/4S3OKZ

Batchelor institute educates about 2500 Indigenous students from around the country. Feds bailed out college http://bit.ly/7Kottk

Laptops replace remote Patjarr school in Gibson Desert. -Lack of students, but who teaches them to use the laptops? http://bit.ly/8tdEw3

The Indigenous News Updates are sourced from news and other articles from around the country that I have posted on Twitter.
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