Ballina Information Blog

Schools across the North Coast including Ballina High School are keen to show their green credentials at this year’s Sustainable Living Expo at the North Coast National Show. They have been given the opportunity to do so through the Schools For The Future competition, which encourages students to demonstrate their work on practical ways of [...]

The Member for Page, Janelle Saffin, is reminding secondary schools they have until the end of next week to apply for funding in the first round of the National Secondary Schools Computer Fund. Ms Saffin says the Rudd Labor Government is investing $1 billion over four years in the Digital Education Revolution, to improve secondary [...]

Ballina Shire schools can now make nominations for the 2008 National Awards for Excellence in School Music Education. “Music education promotes social and cultural development, enhances student engagement and provides a basis for a vibrant and creative nation,” Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Education Julia Gillard said. “These important awards now in their second [...]

From today Australian secondary schools most in need of new information technology will be able to make an application to the $1 billion National Secondary School Computer Fund the Federal Government said. “The Rudd Government has undertaken an initial audit of Australia’s secondary schools and found that 937 of them have a computer to student [...]

A seminar at Southern Cross University next week will discuss how to improve the education of thousands of children in out-of-home care throughout NSW. The free seminar ‘Are we Making the Grade?’ will bring together experts from a variety of government and non-government agencies and departments for the first time to discuss the issues that [...]

‘Don’t panic’ is the advice to school leavers who will this week receive their Higher School Certificate results and UAI (Universities Admission Index). Peter Barnard, Southern Cross University Admissions Manager, said there were a range of options for students, even if they didn’t receive the UAI they were hoping for. Southern Cross University has established [...]

A new education fund designed to help financially disadvantaged students go to university has been established by the Northern Rivers Community Foundation and Southern Cross University. The endowed fund has been established following donations of $25,000 each from local businessman Dr Peter Bowen and his wife Julianne, and Southern Cross University. Investment income from the [...]

Coastal pollution, Japanese whaling, climate change, sustainable forestry and resource management will be among the topics up for discussion when the new Member for Page meets with Southern Cross University researchers at the Lismore campus tomorrow (December 14). Janelle Saffin will receive a briefing on a range of environmental issues impacting on the North Coast [...]

A former Ballina High School teacher and rugby league player is among four people from the Far North Coast who were awarded 2007 Director General’s Awards for Excellent Service to Public Education and Training recognising their outstanding contributions to education. Greg Porter, now Head Teacher at Kingscliff High, was among 42 teachers in schools and [...]

When she left Nebraska, USA, at the beginning of this year, Southern Cross University Masters student Marisa Gibb had no idea that her research would lead to the study of new kinds of microscopic animals. But after months of painstakingly preparing sea-bed samples from two of Australia’s southern-most coral reefs for imaging by the university’s [...]