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More newsUNE information technology teaching degree a first in Nauru
Uncategorized, Education, international
Published date: 19/09/2022
When Rhema graduates with a UNE Associate Degree in Teaching, she will be the first Nauruan in UNE’s Pacific Education Program with an ICT and computer studies specialisation. It’s no easy task in a country with an intermittent internet connection and little in the way of resources. But it’s just one of many ways students […]
Speaking our languages
Education, languages, Research
Published date: 25/07/2019
Image: Professor Anne-Marie Morgan (third from right) at the Patji-Dawes Award, July 2019, which she chaired and presented to winners Sophia Mung and Brother Stephen Morelli. “Being bilingual or multilingual is the norm around the world. It is unusual for a country to be predominantly monolingual, like Australia,” UNE education and language expert, Professor Anne-Marie […]
Happiness and inclusion: leading teacher education in Bhutan
Bhutan, Education
Published date: 03/05/2019
Image: University of New England (UNE) Vice-Chancellor Annabelle Duncan presents a certificate to Rinchen Dorji. Bhutanese education leader and UNE School of Education PhD graduate, Rinchen Dorji, could have followed any career path. But he chose teaching, and has never looked back. “This is the 24th year of my service in the Bhutanese education system […]
Meet our people: Dr Frances Alter, Senior Lecturer, Creative and Performing Arts Education
art, Education
Published date: 06/03/2019
Dr Frances Alter, senior lecturer in creative and performing arts education at UNE, has used “everything from cooking classes to puppet shows” to engage students – and that’s while teaching English as a second language! “I spent a year as a volunteer teacher in North India in my 20s. There, and later as an English […]
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