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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

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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


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


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

School Leaders: No time for complacency

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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


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


Education Geographics has been working closely with Australian Development Strategies and Health Geographics to map future spatial population impacts of Covid.

Looking Beyond Covid – Spatially

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Australia is predicted to lose a million persons in the next few years, when compared to pre-Covid estimates. These losses are likely to be highest in suburbs near universities which had previously enjoyed strong population growth, due to recent large intakes of foreign students and very high levels of net overseas migration (NOM). Education Geographics


Janus god of beginnings

Looking Beyond Covid

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Looking back to the dark days of the pandemic in mid-2020, we were able to tell our Principals which families and streets within their catchment needed support during job lock downs. We then charted the jobs recovery by suburbs so school Business Managers could track the recovery in their local economies. But that was the


What is Geography Anyway? National Geographic Education Summit 2019, Washington, D.C.

GIS in the Classroom

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A Conversation with Ali Pressel & Kyle Tredinnick In October 2019, Teacher Advisory Council members Ali Pressel and Kyle Tredinnick hosted a breakout session titled “StoryMaps: Building a GeoHabit” at National Geographic’s Education Summit. ArcGIS StoryMaps is a system that allows users to tell digital stories with text, interactive maps, imagery, and more. The two high school teachers


Enrolment projections – an art or a science? Written By Reg Kernke, Director of Education Geographics

Enrolment projections – an art or a science?

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While staff costs drive upwards of 75 percent of a school budget, your student enrolment numbers drive just about 100 percent of everything in the budget. In 2016/17 the average total recurrent income per full time equivalent independent school student across Australia exceeded $20,000. [1] With a national average enrolment of 525 students per school, a


Apps from Maps - Technically a map is defined as a diagrammatic representation of an area of land or sea showing physical features, cities, roads, etc.

APPS FROM MAPS USING LOCATION INTELLIGENCE IS A WHOLE NEW WORLD

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by Richard Harris in iOS Technically a map is defined as a diagrammatic representation of an area of land or sea showing physical features, cities, roads, etc. As soon as we view a map, we inherently start turning it into information by analysing its contents and finding patterns, assessing trends, and making decisions about what we are


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