The New South Wales Government has launched a new strategy covering students from Year 9 to Year 12, which aims to keep them engaged and interested in learning and to give them more options as they prepare for life after school. The strategy combines a broader range of subject choices, increased careers education down to Year 9 level, extensive use of ICT, and access to advanced courses and expert, university-style lectures. View Article...

The Victorian Essential Learning Standards seek to prepare students for a world that is complex, rapidly changing, ICT rich, increasingly globalised and demanding in terms of high-order thinking. School libraries are well placed to work with a curriculum such as VELS, which combines subject-based and interdisciplinary content. This year, library staff at St Mary’s Coptic Orthodox College have been closely involved with the introduction of VELS at the school. View Article...