The Daylesford Foundation provides scholarships to young people struggling to further their education. Raquel Stevens talks to Viydee, one of the first people to receive a scholarship and to Dr Jo Van Son, the student support co-ordinator for the Foundation.
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Daylesford Primary School has been recognised for Outstanding Provision for High-Ability Students (Primary). The 2023 Victorian Education Excellence Awards recognise outstanding teachers, principals, business managers, and support staff demonstrating outstanding dedication and achievement in government education.
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Inspirational teachers, principals, business managers and support staff and schools are being...
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Daylesford College student, Quinn Le Fevre, joined 119 young people from across Victoria for the YMCA Youth Parliament at the end of June. Quinn was selected to introduce a bill he helped to prepare to lower the voting age to 16 and the bill was passed by the Youth Parliament.
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Local schools will benefit from a state-wide distribution of $13.5 million allocated through the Planned Maintenance and Bushfire Preparedness programs to ensure schools are able to undertake essential works and repairs to ensure bushfire readiness.
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HEADS UP! Watch this space next week for news about the installation of some wonderful, new...
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Deakin medical students recently visited Daylesford College to promote rural health careers, health literacy and engagement among high school students. Deakin has modified its entry requirements and medical curriculum to encourage more students from rural backgrounds to study medicine.
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DNC have received a generous $2000 donation from the Timbeck Charitable Trust to support their community shower and laundry initiative.
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Local children can go ‘wild about reading’, as they embark on the annual Premiers’ Reading...
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Recently published NAPLAN results for local primary schools in the Daylesford area show that overall results for for reading, writing, spelling, grammar and punctuation and numeracy for the primary schools were at, or slightly below average compared to all Australian students. Similarly, the Secondary College results at year 7 and 9 were generally at or slightly below the Australian average compared to all Australian students.
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Adult, Community and Further Education (ACFE) to be delivered in Clunes In an historic initiative,...
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Long time Hepburn resident, Associate Professor Ann Gervasoni, in collaboration with Dr James Russo has launched a new ABC Education feature to develop mathematical skills in primary students.
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