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MGSE Events

• Wednesday 10 April 2019 5:30pm - 7:00pm
  UNESCO Artist In Residence: Michelle Scully - Composing music to Alison Lester’s books
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• Tuesday 30 April 2019 10:00am - 12:00pm
  Melbourne Teachers' College Alumni Morning Tea
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• Friday 3 May 2019 10:00am - 12:00pm
  Early Childhood & Kindergarten Alumni Morning Tea
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• Tuesday 4 June 2019 6:30pm - 9:00pm
  2019 Awards Evening
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• 18 July 2019 21 July 2019
  International Positive Psychology Association 6th World Congress on Positive Psychology
  Event

MGSE News

• Laureate Professor John Hattie rated number 6 by Global Top Gurus

  John Hattie, Director of the Melbourne Educational Research Institute at the University of Melbourne, has been ranked as the sixth-best university educator in the world by Global Top Gurus.

  12 Mar 2019 News
• The pros and cons of split classrooms

  While this practice has been lauded as a helpful way for educators to address the learning needs of children who are progressing at different academic levels at once, some argue it puts too much of an administrative strain on teachers, who must spend more time preparing lessons.

  01 Feb 2019 News
• Is your phone telling you it might be time for a micro-detox?

  Dr Peggy Kern, of the University of Melbourne, believes that managing digital habits should be approached in a similar way to dieting.

  29 Nov 2018 News
• Niklas Labba delivers 2018 NARRM Oration

  Niklas Labba, Academic Director of the Centre for Sámi Studies at the University of Tromsø – Artic University of Norway, explored the importance of First Nations voice and constitutional recognition during his 2018 Narrm Oration at the University of Melbourne last night.

  23 Nov 2018 News
• These are the happiest and unhappiest jobs in Australia

  A new joint survey from Dr Peggy Kern, The Wellbeing Lab and the Australia HR Institute reports people working in the consulting industry are the most likely to consider themselves "consistently thriving" in the workplace.

  16 Nov 2018 News
• Who are Australia's happiest workers, and why?

  The Wellbeing Lab Workplace Survey, conducted in partnership with Dr Peggy Kern from the University of Melbourne and supported by the Australian HR Institute, recently asked a representative sample of just over 1,000 Australian workers how their wellbeing was faring.

  14 Nov 2018 News
• The vocational education sector needs a plan and action, not more talk
  03 Oct 2018 News
• Sorting fact from fiction on the teaching profession
  03 Oct 2018 News
• A new national set of priorities for VET would make great social and economic sense
  02 Oct 2018 News
• Group of Eight leads the pack in research (subscription required)
  27 Sep 2018 News
• The growing concern that Australian students are being over-tested
  25 Sep 2018 News
• Australian tertiary education funding is not as low as it seems in OECD metrics
  17 Sep 2018 News

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