Education Industry and Sharan Burrow
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Now worth $741 million, with overseas students pouring into Adelaide

Education exports boost

South Australia’s international education industry is now worth $741 million, with overseas students pouring into Adelaide.

SA Department of Trade and Economic Development - 3 weeks, 4 days ago
Australia's third-largest export earner. In recent years, Asia countries are ...

China is the largest source of Australia’s overseas student market

International Student Enrolments in Australia 1994 - 2007 The international education industry is Australia's third-largest export earner. In recent years, Asia countries are the main source of international students. The ...

GNews - business - 2 months, 3 weeks ago
Usually relatively slow to integrate technology into the classroom. In ...

Social Networking Gets Schooled

As a whole, the education industry is usually relatively slow to integrate technology into the classroom. In lots of schools nationwide, unbridled access to computers and the Internet is still ...

TechNewsWorld - 4 months, 1 week ago
Opened an enterprise class data centre located in Mascot, Sydney ...

US software vendor Blackboard opens Australian data centre

US-based Blackboard Inc, a provider of enterprise technology for the education industry has opened an enterprise class data centre located in Mascot, Sydney Australia. This is Blackboard’s fifth data centre ...

CRN Australia - 9 months, 2 weeks ago

3 months, 1 week ago Increased TAFE funding welcome, but higher fees will dampen demand for training, say unions

Unions have today welcomed the announcement of increased funding for the Victorian vocational education and training system, but have voiced strong opposition to the increased fees and the introduction of ...
ACTU - 10 a.m. Tuesday 26th August 2008

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4 months, 1 week ago Unions and business in joint pact on skills

Australia's unions and the nation's two largest employer bodies will hold an historic meeting today (Tuesday) to forge a shared approach to the skills and training needs of the national ...
Australian Industry Group - 9:05 p.m. Thursday 24th July 2008

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4 months, 2 weeks ago Call for action to reduce workplace discrimination against people with disabilities

The ACTU has welcomed today’s Rudd Government announcement to assist people with disabilities seeking jobs, but has warned that more action is needed to address discrimination against workers with a ...
ACTU - 10 a.m. Monday 21st July 2008

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6 months, 3 weeks ago Budget is a good step towards undoing the damage of Work Choices

The 2008 Federal Budget is a good step towards undoing the damage of Work Choices and relieving the pressure on working Australians and their families. ACTU President Sharan Burrow said: ...
ACTU - 10 a.m. Tuesday 13th May 2008

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7 months, 1 week ago New figures show 14 weeks paid maternity leave more critical than ever

Australian women are going backwards in terms of paid maternity leave, putting the health of new mothers and babies at risk and undermining the capacity of many families to keep ...
ACTU - 10 a.m. Tuesday 29th April 2008

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7 months, 3 weeks ago Facing up to Australia’s skills challenge: industry sets key priorities to address the skills crisis

The National Skills Policy Collaboration has today released a ten-point plan to meet Australia’s skills challenges head on. The statement by leading employer and union groups calls for significant action, ...
ACTU - 10 a.m. Wednesday 16th April 2008

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8 months, 4 weeks ago Address to the National Press Club - Building a fairer Australia: the role of unions and workers’ rights

ACTU Secretary, Jeff Lawrence I appreciate being able to address the National Press Club at this early stage of my leadership of the ACTU and thank the Press Club Board ...
ACTU - 10 a.m. Wednesday 12th March 2008

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9 months ago ACTU Executive outlines future agenda for working families

The Executive of the ACTU met in Melbourne this week to adopt a new campaign plan to improve the wages, working conditions and superannuation of working families. The national union ...
ACTU - 10 a.m. Thursday 6th March 2008

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11 months ago Employers must stop forcing staff onto AWAs ahead of laws to scrap WorkChoices

Unions are calling on employers to stop forcing staff onto Australian Workplace Agreements (AWAs) ahead of new laws expected to be tabled next month in Federal Parliament that will ban ...
ACTU - 10 a.m. Wednesday 9th January 2008

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11 months, 4 weeks ago Sharan Burrow, ACTU President: Address to the AiGroup

Manufacturing is a critical sector of the Australian economy and yet by our reckoning it has been in decline for two out of the last three years. This fall in ...
ACTU - 10 a.m. Wednesday 12th December 2007

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1 year ago 450,000 teachers, childcare & education workers could be next target for AWAs if coalition re-elcted

<div>Australia’s 450,000 childcare workers, school teachers, TAFE and university staff could be the next target for AWA individual contracts under WorkChoices if the Howard Govt is re-elected, say unions.</div> <div> ...
ACTU - 10 a.m. Tuesday 13th November 2007

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