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.

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.

IT services company, Kroll Ontrack and ethical waste recycler, TES-AMM are working together to support two Queensland schools with an innovative community recycling initiative.

The Australian Academic and Research Network (AARNet) has partnered with the NSW Department of Education and Training and the Australian Museum to deliver interactive video content via the Clickfest program which connect regional schools throughout Australia with specialists in various fields of study using high definition videoconferencing.

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Apple has ensured that one of its iMac models is now available at the magic sub-$1000 price point in the US education market, continuing Apple’s appeal to the education sector albeit at the cost of less powerful specs.

The ACS Foundation has developed a new web site (www.careersfoundation.com.au/schoolvisit) to enable secondary school teachers, careers advisors and schools to register their interest to get speakers from a variety of industries to visit them to talk to their students about different careers, particularly within the Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) industry.

The Federal Government has created an advisory group of education and IT experts to provide it with advice how best to deploy IT in education and support the new Australian Curriculum.

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Teenage school students are running riot on Facebook, participating in groups that crudely rate the sexual performance of various group members, with parents, schools and Facebook either unaware, unwilling or unsuccessful in taking proactive educational action.