AFG Venture Group Dispatches
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Archive for Education
July 2010: Education, Digital Media and IT
EDITOR’S COMMENT Welcome to AFG Venture Dispatches, your insight into current issues and items of interest for Emerging, Technology and Growth Companies across Australia and Asia. Technological advances are impacting on how education is delivered. Educators are adapting to meet the needs of students arriving with digital capabilities and multi-dimensional learning experiences. Universities can also [...]
Working with Islamic Education Groups In Indonesia
Michael Fay, Director & Head of Education & Training Services, AFG Venture Group Australian education institutions have provided opportunities for fee paying Indonesian students to study at school, college and university level in Australia for nearly 25 years and are an important part of the soft diplomacy engagement with our closest Asian neighbour. These educational [...]
Nepal: Education in Times of Crisis
Murray Laurence, Travel Writer, Business Consultant, International Education I am writing this in the midst of yet another crisis in this country, which has had more than its share of crises in recent decades. On 1 May, the United Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) began a protest movement and ‘indefinite’ strike, the intention of which [...]
Building Demand for Asia Literacy
Lucy Carroll, Manager, Asia Literary Ambassadors Project, Asia Education Foundation Asia Literacy Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has said that he ‘wants Australia to become the most Asia-literate country in the Western world.’ Asia literacy is defined as knowledge, skills and understandings about the histories, geographies, societies, cultures, literature and languages of the diverse countries that [...]
Digital Literacy: Learning to Run Twice as Fast
Tony Hughes, Senior Consultant, Digital Media, Education & Training, AFG Venture Group “Well, in our country,” said Alice, still panting a little, “you’d generally get to somewhere else if you ran very fast for a long time, as we’ve been doing.” “A slow sort of country!” said the Queen. “Now, here, you see, it takes [...]