Category Archives: Education

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John Black and Jack Dangermond

THE GEOSPATIAL CLOUD: FAST INSIGHTS INTO BIG DATA

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Article written By Jack Dangermond Integrating the power of location intelligence across an organization Geospatial cloud platforms, computing power and geographic information system (GIS) software give businesses the ability to analyze massive storehouses of information. The results often reveal new data patterns and stimulate innovative ways to increase success through an understanding of location intelligence.


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Would You Like A PIE Score With That?

WOULD YOU LIKE A PIE SCORE WITH THAT?

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Education tends to be a pretty staid, if not conservative, sector, but the underlying analysis and associated data presentation available for the education market is moving very fast. By way of example, at Education Geographics (EGS) we’re now starting our third year of producing online and interactive school dashboards and maps, and we are already heading


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Independent School Enrolments By Streets and By Schools by Australian Development Strategies

COMPETITION AT THE COALFACE

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Last year I presented some school stats from our national research dataset to a meeting of Victorian Bursars. In one chart, shown below, I ranked Australian Independent enrolments by neighbourhood, according to the average P-12 fees shown by the Household Expenditure Survey, and I ranked the Independent enrolments by school, using the average P-12 fees


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SES Funding Map - Education Geographics

SES FUNDING AND POSSIBLE WINNERS AND LOSERS

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The Commonwealth Government has recently adopted changes in Federal funding for Non-Government schools. These changes remove the spatial weighting for Occupation and Education from the old Howard-era SES scores and instead rely on data linkages to provide a direct measure of matched Personal Income Tax (PIT) for parents and guardians. A higher PIT means higher


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Raise the Scarlet High - Glyn Davis - Vice-Chancellor, the University of Melbourne

RAISE THE SCARLET STANDARD HIGH

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29 August 2018 AFR Higher Education Conference “Raise the Scarlet Standard High” by Glyn Davis – Vice-Chancellor, the University of Melbourne Thank you Shadow Minister. My thanks to everyone for this nomination and award, and for those generous tributes.  To be valued by peers is the most important recognition possible, and I am deeply grateful. In


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Digital Disruption Vs Wealth - Education Geographics, John Black

DIGITAL DISRUPTION VS WEALTH EFFECT

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From 2008 to 2017, half the increases in Independent enrolments have been in the bottom fee quartile of schools by student numbers. Three quarters of the increases have been within the bottom two fee quartiles of schools by student numbers. However, around 2014, this pattern of growth changed and from 2014 to 2017, the growth


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John Black with Jack D of ESRI

MEETING WITH JACK D – ESRI

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Jeanine and I are soaking up the latest GIS, Stats, AR developments at the Esri User Conference 2018 in San Diego with 18,000 other participants. EGS are development partners with Esri in Australia. We had a short meeting today with Jack D, the international President of Esri who is keenly interested in teaching kids about


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GFC-impact-on-three-sectors- Education Geographics

2017 EDUCATION STATS ROUND UP

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Here is a summary of slides presented in late 2017 to Principals, Vice Principals, Business Managers and Marketers. Data is sourced from the five yearly Census results, the annual ABS school census, My School, ABS Labour Market releases, Digital Finance Analytics and Education Geographics Research. These slides show The characteristics of suburbs where each sector


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EDUCATION SECTOR CHANGES 2008-2015

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The Australian economy has been hit by a series of economic upheavals and mixed economic responses from Governments since the GFC of 2008. These factors have totally transformed the nature of the Australian Education Market as shown by the interractive ESRI Australia maps which can be seen by clicking on the above picture. The maps


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JOB MARKET CHANGES HIT SCHOOLS & UNIS

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Only about 45 per cent of year 12 students from Government schools in 2015 said they had a Bachelor degree as their main post-school destination, but the equivalent figure from non-Government year 12 completers was about 63 per cent. Our company Education Geographics profiles non-Government schools and we currently have about ten per cent of