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Indigenous News Update – Education

by Robbo on 23/02/2010

News

  • Literacy and numeracy testing of students shows Indigenous children are still struggling to reach an average level http://bit.ly/8p82zO

  • INDIGENOUS children and those living in remote areas continue to do the worst academically -no ground in the past year http://bit.ly/5KXY5J

  • Packer committing funds to Twiggy’s Indigenous employment program http://bit.ly/ajGSxE

  • Deadline missed for Indigenous boarding houses in remote NT communities http://bit.ly/8Zvmtt

  • New program introduces Aboriginal kids to team sports http://bit.ly/90x05b

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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Indigenous News Update – Education

by Robbo on 07/12/2009

News

  • ONLY one in five children in remote indigenous communities can read to the minimum standard. http://bit.ly/881mXu

  • Remote students simply don’t have the advantages of urban students. And yet we expect the outcomes to be the same http://bit.ly/701JGm

  • INDIGENOUS culture may be embedded in the new national school curriculum http://bit.ly/6y2P2T

  • Australian Literacy & Numeracy Foundation: 4 of 5 kids in remote indigenous communities cant read at minimum standard http://bit.ly/6uN1jG

  • The Literacy backpack is one of the programs carried out by the Fountain for Youth Foundation http://bit.ly/6FXEHc

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Indigenous News Update – Education

by Robbo on 23/11/2009

News

  • INDIGENOUS children will start school at 7.15am and work until late into the afternoon in Cape York schools http://bit.ly/2Le3fq

  • ABS – More Indigenous youth finishing year 12 or equivalent http://bit.ly/4EBQYc

  • $18 million has been committed to improve teacher housing in remote communities to improve indigenous education http://bit.ly/4fknGW

  • Cape York has more than 1500 teenage students of high school age, but less than a third are even enrolled http://bit.ly/6Eipud

  • Aboriginal content will keep kids at school as it provides and indigenous world view they can understand http://bit.ly/6gazd3

  • Charlie Perkins Trust for Children and Students to sponsor two indigenous places at Oxford University http://bit.ly/2OjR4y

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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Tagged as: aboriginal, Cape York, Charlie Perkins, education, Indigenous, literacy, news

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Indigenous News Update

by Robbo on 26/08/2009

  • 7 days of aboriginal dance and culture in Moree from Sept 21-27 http://bit.ly/4nWj63

  • In the steps of ancient dreaming – Bangarra Dance new production Mathinna is an emotionally involving dance http://bit.ly/EWobI

  • Model of four three-month seasons is not valid in Australia. Aboriginal Australians recognise six to eight seasons. http://bit.ly/GzC8f

  • A pervasive silence allows indigenous suffering to continue, not least the failure to help them articulate their needs http://bit.ly/cKRPS

  • Batchelor Institute educates 3000 indigenous Australians requires funding to continue its work

  • Batchelor Institute educates 3000 indigenous Australians requires funding to continue its work http://bit.ly/15HJ3d

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Tagged as: aboriginal, Batchelor Institute, culture, dance, Indigenous, literacy, news, WA, weather

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