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  • Digital education revolution: who's got the tab?

    Deputy Prime Minister Julia Gillard revealed this week that the onus for funding federal Labor's digital education revolution will fall more heavily on the states than first expected, prompting raised eyebrows from some and the ire of the Opposition.

  • Gillard opens coffers for tech-starved schools

    Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Education, Julia Gillard, has announced that the first round of funding for Labor's digital education revolution has begun, and urged priority listed schools to apply for grants under the AU$1 billion initiative.

  • States speechless on digital education funding

    After the Federal government was forced over the weekend to fend off claims that its digital education revolution is already coming unstuck, the offices of a number of the country's state education ministers have maintained a steady silence ahead of an intergovernmental meeting to discuss the next round of funding.

  • Flagship funding will not face Razor Gang slash-up

    Deputy Prime Minister Julia Gillard has pledged the government's ongoing support for a substantial CSIRO innovation program, after reports late last week that it intended to lower the organisations budget by cutting hundreds of millions of dollars out the initiative.

  • Teachers told: Cash in or lose chance at laptops

    Minister for Education Julia Gillard has written to secondary school principals across Australia inviting them to participate in the Labor government's so-called "digital education revolution".

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  • ATO's Change Agenda a 'black hole'

    The Australian Taxation's Change Program (which is best suited perhaps for simple formulaic tax collections, not complex audit, analysis and interpretation work) may collapse under its own dead weight.

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