Category Archives: Education

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What’s New in Your EGS Dashboards? Education Geographics has just rolled out exciting updates to your dashboards, empowering your leadership teams with better insights and benchmarks.

What’s New in Your Dashboards?

Category:Education

Welcome Back to the 2025 Academic Year! At Education Geographics, we’re excited to help you make 2025 a year of data-driven decisions and impactful governance. Our award-winning development team, led by Reg Kernke, has just rolled out exciting updates to your dashboards, empowering your leadership teams with better insights and benchmarks. What’s New in Your


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Webinar with Saul Eslake will focus on the impact of the US Presidential Election on the Australian economy.

Webinar: Saul Eslake on US Presidential Election Impact on Australian Economy

Category:Demographics,Education Tags : 

We are pleased to welcome back Australia’s living economic legend Saul Eslake to our Education Geographics Webinars on November 15, when Saul will focus on the impact of the US Presidential Election on the Australian economy in the lead-up to the Australian General Election due by May 2025. Whoever wins, the outcome of the United


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Australian Female Participation Rates and Independent School Market share. As the female jobs increased, so did Independent Market Share.

Australian Female Participation Rates and Independent School Market share.

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🎓I put on my Education Geographics hat today to write an opinion piece for the Australian Financial Review for Tuesday’s paper and you’ll find it now in the online edition on this link (behind the paywall): 🔗  View this story in the AFR The story discusses the choices confronting all parents when they choose a


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Education Geographics has won the prestigious InfoSol 2023 Award for the Most Valuable Dashboard, for its Australian School App.

EGS Wins InfoSol 2023 Award

Category:Demographics,Education

Education Geographics has won the prestigious InfoSol 2023 Award for the Most Valuable Dashboard, for its Australian School App which is now driving record enrolment growth for school leadership teams across 130 Australian Non-government schools. Paul Grill, the CEO of Infosol personally congratulated EGS and its CEO and dashboard designer Reg Kernke on the achievement


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Political Pitfalls Ahead - AFR New Year Special

Political Pitfalls Ahead

Category:Demographics,Education,Health,Housing

I have a little opinion piece in the Australian Financial Review’s New Year Special Edition on some of the political and economic issues awaiting the attention of the Commonwealth Government during 2023 and AFR subscribers can find it here: https://www.afr.com/politics/federal/albo-looks-a-shoo-in-but-a-lot-could-go-wrong-in-2023-20221227-p5c8we The story uncovers some unexpected Covid impacts for 2023 and beyond for population growth, the


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EGS Spatial Analyst and Senior Mapper Dr Jeanine McMullan has just recorded a new video

‘I really like our maps … they’re great fun!’

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Our EGS Spatial Analyst and Senior Mapper Dr Jeanine McMullan has just recorded a new video. In the video, headed The Power of the Esri Map Module, Jeanine conveys her sense of excitement at being able to explore innovative new map layers of small-scale data which she can superimpose on EGS catchment maps, so schools


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Covid Impacts For School Planners- Using available data from late 2021, the Education Geographics team calculated post-Covid spatial estimates from 2020 to 2031 on total population, pre-schoolers and school-aged children.

Covid Impacts For School Planners

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Using available data from late 2021, the Education Geographics team calculated post-Covid spatial estimates from 2020 to 2031 on total population, pre-schoolers and school-aged children. Our preliminary EGS population modelling indicates that the big winners from Covid impacts on total Australian population growth have been the four SA4 ABS statistical regions making up the state


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NSW and ACT Covid update dashboard showing most impacted areas by Education Geographics, Australia

School Leaders: No time for complacency

Category:Education

In late 2021, Australia appears headed for a strong economic recovery, but underlying structural problems mean this is no time for complacency among school leaders about future demand for Non-Government school places in 2022 and beyond. As outlined in the Australian Financial Review today (December 2, 2021) Economics Editor John Kehoe warns the current publicly-funded


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Allan Shaw is a true School Whisperer, a man who, after more than 40 years as a Teacher, Principal and mentor to fellow Principals, believes that leading a school is the best job in the world.

Allan Shaw, School Whisperer – Farewell to the best job in the world

Category:Education

Leading a school is the best job in the world, bringing together professional staff and parents to build a community around children and young people. But occasionally you have some of the worst days imaginable. It is difficult to be physically confronted by a student who you know has hurt one of their own parents


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Steve Austin Broadcaster interviews John Black founder of Education Geographics

What’s The Impact Of Covid On Education?

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🎙 Steve Austin interviews John Black, Founder of Education Geographics.   John discusses with Steve the role of aspirational parents and a stronger labour market in driving the long-term growth of Non-Government schools. The discussion covers the medium-term impact on Non-Government school enrolments of the Covid lockdowns and the Government Stimulus. Also covered is the