Apple's education announcement featured a new version of the iBooks app to handle the company's new electronic textbook format, along with free software for creating those interactive textbooks.

Cloud computing is one of the hot areas of the IT industry as the 2012 business year moves into top gear, and Bond University in Queensland has just introduced a specialist course in cloud computing in response to the market demand for graduates with skills in new technologies.

New South Wales high school students are again being given the opportunity to study a university-level computer science course, but the closing date for applications is looming.

The Federal Government has announced a $20m project to create an online educational portal that will provide school students and teachers around Australia with access to vast archive of ABC material, linked to the Australian Curriculum and that will need NBN bandwidths to utilised.

The Tasmanian Department of Education has selected Symantec Endpoint Protection to secure 40,000 personal computers and 700 servers, replacing an older version of the Symantec system.

Students at Victoria’s Brighton Grammar School are to be equipped with Acer Iconia Tab A50 tablets in a contract that Acer says is the first large Android program for an Australian school.

Australian school children can be at the leading edge of learning if schools embrace new technologies to offer a more individual education experience, according to new research which also reveals that students don’t think their needs are currently been met by the education system.

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The Federal Government has called for proposals for funding under the $27.2m NBN-Enabled Education and Skills Services program.

Acer is deploying up to 65,000 notebooks with the Queensland Department of Education and Training (DET) after the company won a tender in round three of the national secondary school computer fund.