Melbourne based consulting firm, 1st Executive has launched an internship opportunity program for businesses and young professionals, including IT graduates, looking to gain experience in the workplace.

The ACS Foundation (ACSF), whose charter is to encourage private and public sponsorship of ICT higher education and research initiatives, has today released the results of a survey of its Work Integrated Learning scholarship holders. The quantitative and qualitative responses prove the value of relevant work experience programs for ICT tertiary students in complementing their academic studies and improving their employment prospects.

A new piece of online software, with a name suspiciously similar to a leading laptop product, has been launched with the specific aim of helping high school students out with their English skills.

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.

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.

Debney Park Secondary College students now have the world at their fingertips, with a new $50,000 Connected Classroom donated by Dell.

At a tension-filled event at the Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, last night the five Australian finalists in the 2011 Microsoft Imagine Cup fought for the coveted first place in the national Software Design category of the world’s premier student technology competition.

NASA conducted a contest for students to produce a video that emphasizes one of NASA’s many spinoff technologies. Now, you can vote for your favorite spinoff video.

For $2 per hundred words, homework outsource units in India and elsewhere are crafting custom-written homework and answers for students willing to pay up and hope they don’t get caught.

Many young Australians between the age of 18 to 25, and their counterparts in the US and the UK, share their passwords while less than half password protect their mobile devices, according to a study by security firm AVG.