conference [n.]

1. a formal meeting for discussion or debate. 2. an association in commerce for regulation or exchange of information. 3. a league of sports teams or clubs.

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Conferences & Events

February 2012

• The Early Years Conference 2012
  ‘This conference will be of interest to anyone interested in learning and sharing about issues and experiences regarding early years’.
  Date : 2-4 February 2012, Vancouver, Canada
• The Australian Student Leadership Conferences
  ‘The primary purpose is to engage young adults in powerful leadership and personal growth development experiences’.
  Dates : 3-4 February 2012, Sunshine Coast, Queensland; 16-17 February 2012, Bundaberg, Queensland
• eM-powering eFutures
  ‘VALA’s 16th Biennial Conference and Exhibition’.
  Date : 6-9 February 2012, Melbourne, Victoria
• VALA2012
  ‘The VALA2012 theme, eM-powering eFutures, promotes the understanding and use of communication technology in libraries and the related museums, archives and galleries services’.
  Date : 6-9 February 2012, Melbourne, Victoria
• The Australian eLearning Congress
  ‘We have made this event the most innovative eLearning experience in Australia by exploring all avenues of eLearning, some that are currently available and some that will be with us soon …’.
  Date : 7-9 February 2012, Sydney, NSW
• The Apology : Anniversary
  Information from FaHCSIA.
  Date : 13 February 2012, Australia
• Ancient Mediterranean Lecture Series, La Trobe University
  For all details, covering topics, costs, times, etc., use the above site or download the La Trobe in the City program for 2012.
  Dates : 13, 20, 27 February 2012, Carlton, Melbourne, Victoria
• Concept-based Curriculum and Instruction for Elementary Schools
  ‘Dr. Erickson will challenge your mind as she contrasts the three-dimensional IB concept-based curriculum and instruction model with the worn out two-dimensional coverage model’.
  Date : 14-15 February 2012, Melbourne, Victoria
• International Higher Education 2012
  ‘Managing risk to ensure sustainable growth. This conference will share insights and discuss challenges around managing risk and providing quality to continuously improve international education in Australia’.
  Date : 14-15 February 2012, Melbourne, Victoria
• Language and Society Centre Annual Roundtables
  This ‘will provide an opportunity for researchers working in areas related to the teaching and learning of languages for international/intercultural communication to share their research with each other’.
  Date : 16-17 February 2012, Melbourne, Victoria
• Concept Based Curriculum For Middle School Educators
  ‘Dr. Erickson will challenge your mind as she contrasts the three-dimensional IB concept-based curriculum and instruction model with the worn out two-dimensional coverage model’.
  Date : 18 February 2012, Adelaide, South Australia
• 2012 AIEA Annual Conference
  Theme is ‘Building a Secure World through International Education’.
  Date : 19-22 February 2012, Washington, USA
• 3rd Annual Green Universities Forum
  ‘Highlights various issues to help Australian universities becoming more environmentally sustainable’.
  Date : 20-21 February 2012, Melbourne, Victoria
• NTEU’s Future of Higher Education Conference
  Australian Universities, Today and Tomorrow. ‘This timely conference will debate the big issues facing universities and higher education with a focus on where the decisions of today will take us tomorrow’.
  Date : 22-23 February 2012, Sydney University, Sydney, NSW
• Measuring & Optimising Social Media Marketing in Tertiary Education
  ‘Driving Student Recruitment Through Your Social Media Strategy’.
  Date : 22-23 February 2012, Melbourne, Victoria
• Building Language and Literacy Skills through Spontaneous Dramatic Play
  ‘Building Language and Literacy Skills through Spontaneous Dramatic Play uses specific spontaneous dramatic techniques to enhance and build literacy skills. These techniques have been widely used in the corporate world to promote creativity, improve presentation skills, expand team-building skills, and increase comfort with speaking in front of others’.
  Date : 22-24 February 2012, Melbourne, Victoria
• 2012 Queensland Astronomy Education Conference
  ‘For teachers who want to expand their knowledge of the Space Sciences section of the ‘Earth and Space Sciences component of the new Australian Science Curriculum’.
  Date : 25 February 2012, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, Queensland
• 2012 SASOSE Conference
  Click here to download conference program and registration form.
  Date : 25-26 February 2012, Hindmarsh, South Australia
• Service Skills Australia 2012 National Conference
  ‘The conference theme, Quality in the Making, will focus on setting a new benchmark of quality, by exploring the concept of quality from the perspective of trainers, workforce and industry’.
  Date : 27-28 February 2012, Brisbane, Queensland
• The 2nd Annual E-Learning Summit
  ‘The E-Learning Summit highlights the latest ideas, technologies and strategies for providing education through the E-platform ’
  Date : 27-28 February 2012, Sydney, NSW
• Australian Science Communicators National Conference 2012
  ‘Getting science where it’s needed’.
  Date : 27-29 February 2012, Sydney, NSW
• Implementing Differentiated Instruction in Your Classroom : PreK to Elementary
  ‘With the great diversity in classrooms there is a demand for differentiated instructional practices. These differences in the classrooms result from students coming to us with different ability levels, different experiences as well as different cultural values and practices. A teacher must reach out in a variety of ways to address those different levels, abilities and perspectives’.
  Date : 27-29 February 2012, Melbourne, Victoria
• Apprenticeships and Traineeships 2012
  ‘In the context of the federal government’s response to A Shared Responsibility - Apprenticeships for the 21st Century, this conference will provide insight on the future direction of sector reform’.
  Date : 28-29 February 2012, Melbourne, Victoria
• 3rd Annual TAFE Governance and Regulations Forum
  ‘The transition into the new national regulatory landscape and the challenges for governance will lie at the crux of discussion at the forum over the two days’.
  Date : 29 February-1 March 2012, Melbourne, Victoria

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March 2012

• Implementing Differentiated Instruction in Your Classroom : Middle/High Grades
  ‘With the great diversity in classrooms there is a demand for differentiated instructional practices. These differences in the classrooms result from students coming to us with different ability levels, different experiences as well as different cultural values and practices. A teacher must reach out in a variety of ways to address those different levels, abilities and perspectives’.
  Date : 1-3 March 2012, Melbourne, Victoria
• Using Media Texts to Support Persuasive Language
  ‘This workshop provides ideas for engaging primary level students in identifying, analysing and adapting persuasive texts, and using persuasive language and writing’.
  Date : 3 March 2012, Dubbo, NSW
• Using Media Texts to Support Persuasive Language
  ‘This workshop provides ideas for engaging primary level students in identifying, analysing and adapting persuasive texts, and using persuasive language and writing’.
  Date : 5 March 2012, Annerley, Queensland
• Graduate Careers Fairs - Vic
  5 March 2012 - The Big Meet, Crown Casino; 6 March 2012 - RMIT University; 7 March 2012 - University of Melbourne; 8 March 2012 - Monash University; 13 March 2012 - Swinburne University; 14 March 2012 - Victoria University; 15 March 2012 - La Trobe University; 16 March 2012 - University of Ballarat; 19 March 2012 - Deakin University.
• Creative Approaches to Teaching Mathematics
  Download a Brochure here.
  Date : 5-6 March 2012, Preston, Melbourne, Victoria
• 7th Annual Education and Development Conference
  ‘This three-day program is unlike most academic conferences. It aims to bring scholars and students together as well as experienced professionals willing to learn, share their ideas and their great achievements, while addressing the importance of education and its strong correlation with development’.
  Date : 5-7 March 2012, Bangkok, Thailand
• Education and Development Conference 2012
  ‘Aims to bring scholars and students together as well as experienced professionals willing to learn, share their ideas and their great achievements, while addressing the importance of education and its strong correlation with development’.
  Date : 5-7 March 2012, Bangkok, Thailand
• Using Media Texts to Support Persuasive Language
  ‘This workshop provides ideas for engaging primary level students in identifying, analysing and adapting persuasive texts, and using persuasive language and writing’.
  Date : 6 March 2012, Georges Hall, NSW
• Gender 2012
  ‘Critical Women : Women as Agents of Change through Higher Education’.
  Date : 6-8 March 2012, Colombo, Sri Lanka
• Graduate Careers Fairs - Queensland
  6 March 2012 - James Cook University, Cairns; 7 March 2012 - James Cook University, Townsville; 12 March 2012 - Queensland University of Technology; 13 March 2012 - Griffith University, Nathan; 14 March 2012 - University of Queensland; 15 March 2012 - Griffith University, Gold Coast; 16 March 2012 - The Big Meet, Sofitel Brisbane Central; 20 March 2012 - Central Queensland University; 21 March 2012 - University of Southern Queensland; 22 March 2012 - University of the Sunshine Coast.
• Multiple Intelligences in the Classroom
  ‘The Theory of Multiple Intelligences will provide you with a frame for understanding your students, understanding your own teaching style, and developing lessons that invite all learners. You will learn the theory through a variety of simulations and case studies of real students, while building your toolbox of effective classroom strategies that reach all students’
  Date : 7-9 March 2012, Melbourne, Australia
• Higher Education Conference 2012
  ‘The 2012 conference program will be released later this yea’
  Date : 7-9 March 2012, Canberra, ACT
• Tertiary to Work
  ‘Canberra’s Graduate Career Fair’.
  Date : 9 March 2012, Canberra, ACT
• Graduate Careers Fairs - Tasmania
  9 March 2012 - University of Tasmania.
• Drama Queensland Delve 2012 : Drama Australia National Conference
  ‘Delegates will be able to select professional development opportunities from a wide range of conference strands’.
  Date : 9-11 March 2012, Brisbane, Queensland
• The 1:1 Tech Experience in Teaching and Learning
  ‘New opportunities for students and educators using mobile technologies & iDevices’.
  Date : 12 March 2012, Sydney, NSW
• Going Global 2012, Internationalising Higher Education
  ‘Going Global is a series of international educational conferences hosted by the British Council. It offers an open forum for policy makers and practitioners from around the world to discuss issues facing the international education community’.
  Date : 24-25 March 2012, London, England
• CampFest
  ‘CampFest 2012 will be the 6th Camp we have run for Australian Homeschoolers’.
  Date : 13-18 March 2012, Albury, NSW
• Teaching English Language Learners in Mainstream Classes
  ‘This workshop will explore which pedagogical approaches best support students learning English as an additional language to achieve proficiency in academic English’.
  Date : 14 March 2012, St Lucia, Brisbane, Queensland
• Early Education and Technology for Children Conference
  ‘An annual conference that brings researchers, makers, administrators, educators, and practitioners together to present and discuss research and applications in the areas of preschool through elementary education’
  Date : 14-16 March 2012, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
• Teaching English Language Learners in Mainstream Classes
  ‘This workshop will explore which pedagogical approaches best support students learning English as an additional language to achieve proficiency in academic English’.
  Date : 15 March 2012, Cairns, Queensland
• The 1:1 Tech Experience in Teaching and Learning
  ‘New opportunities for students and educators using mobile technologies & iDevices’.
  Date : 15 March 2012, Brisbane, QueenslandW
• ITEEA 74th Annual Conference
  ‘Changing The Conversation : Improving P-16 Technology & Engineering’.
  Date : 15-17 March 2012, Long Beach, California
• e-literacy : Think Differently, Act Differently, Learn Differently
  School Library Association of Victoria. Site has relevant details and Expression of Interest form.
  Date : 16 March 2012, Melbourne, Victoria
• 2012 Sunshine Coast C&K Conference
  Full details yet to be provided.
  Date : 17 March 2012, Sunshine Coast, Queensland
• The Education & Fundraising Exp
  ‘Brings together over 150 exhibitors, showcasing their products and services to community groups, schools, not for profit and charitable organisations’.
  Date : 17-18 March 2012, RNA Showgrounds, Brisbane, Queensland
• Goethe-Institut - AIS NSW/DET State Conference for Teachers of German NSW/ACT 2012
  ‘From Fairy Tale to Reality : German learning today’.
  Date : 18 March 2012, Woollahra, Sydney, NSW; 19 March 2012, AIS NSW Conference Centre, Sydney, NSW
• Student Demand Driven Education Conference 2012
  ‘The Informa Higher Education Series “Student Demand Driven Education Conference” will discuss and deliberate the key challenges for 2012 in this new era of education’.
  Date : 19-20 March 2012, Sydney, NSW
• Graduate Careers Fairs - NSW
  19 March 2012 - University of New South Wales; 20 March 2012 - University of Newcastle; 21 March 2012 - Macquarie University; 22 March 2012 - University of Technology Sydney; 23 March 2012 - The Big Meet, Sydney Convention & Exhibition Centre; 26 March 2012 - University of Sydney; 27 March 2012 - University of Wollongong; 28 March 2012 - University of Western Sydney.
• Girls in Education
  Download a Conference Brochure here.
  Date : 19-20 March 2012, Melbourne, Victoria
• CQUniversity Australia Student Careers Fair 2012
  ‘A fantastic opportunity for students to explore their career options and for companies to showcase their graduate programs and other student employment programs such as internships, vacation employment and volunteer work’.
  Date : 20 March 2012, Rockhampton, Queensland
• Graduate Careers Fairs - South Australia
  20 March 2012 - Flinders University, Law; 21 March 2012 - University of South Australia; 21 March 2012 - University of Adelaide, Law; 22 March 2012 - University of Adelaide, Arts and Social Sciences, Commerce, Finance; 22 March 2012 - Flinders University, Science, IT & Engineering; 23 March 2012 - University of Adelaide, Engineering, IT, Math, Sciences, Health Sciences; 27 March 2012 - The Big Meet, Hilton Adelaide Hotel.
• The Australian National Quality Standards Conference
  ‘Supporting Practice Through Innovation, Reflection and Quality Improvement’. Early Childhood Education.
  Date : 21 March 2012, Melbourne, Victoria
• 5th Annual National Blended Learning Conference 2012
  ‘The premier meeting place for senior learning and development professionals in Australia and New Zealand. This event will provide the most interactive format yet’.
  Date : 21-22 March 2012, Sydney, NSW
• Aligning Capacity with Strategy under Demand Driven Funding, 2012
  ‘Managing Quality & Growth in an Era of Funding Reform’. This site provides information about the agenda, workshops and speakers.
  Date : 21-22 March 2012, Melbourne, Victoria
• Innovation in Clinical Placements : Coordinating and Improving Access to Clinical Education
  ‘Innovation in Clinical Placements is a national conference that will provide an opportunity for government, education institutions and health providers from across Australia to discuss a coordinated national approach to clinical placements’.
  Date : 21-22 March 2012, Melbourne, Victoria
• 10th e-Assessment Question Conference 2012
  ‘Impact of e-Assessment on Qualifications, Awarding and Certification’.
  Date : 21-22 March 2012, London, England
• Conscious Classroom Management
  ‘Dealing With Disruptive Classroom Behaviour and Practical Strategies to Engage Students in the Classroom’.
  Date : 22 March 2012, Sydney Central, NSW
• 2012 VET Conference
  ‘Designed especially for Queensland Schools VET Coordinators to attend. The VET Summit will explore key issues and challenges that VET Coordinators face when managing a registered training organisation within a school environment’.
  Date : 22 March 2012, Victoria Park Function Venue, Herston
• 2012 DNA
  ‘The 2012 conference asks the question - what do educators take for granted about teaching and learning, and what do we need to change ? A theme of D.N.A. - Developing New Assumptions’.
  Date : 23 March 2012, Preston, Victoria
• 2012 Health Professionals Teaching and Learning Conference
  ‘The conference recognises the importance of dynamic, well trained health professionals and in particular the benefits of learning within inter-professional teams’.
  Date : 24-25 March 2012, Alice Springs, Northern Territory
• 21st National Conference on Family Literacy
  ‘This conference is the one that most successfully meets the needs and interests of family literacy professionals and literacy practitioners’.
  Date : 25-27 March 2012, San Diego, California, USA
• The 3rd Learning Commons Development& Design Forum
  ‘The Forum will investigate key elements that comprise a successful university learning commons, covering designing different work spaces for different student needs [collaborative and social spaces] through to incorporating appropriate and integrated technological features’.
  Date : 26-27 March 2012, Sydney, NSW
• TEQSA Briefings for The Higher Education Sector 2012
  ‘In 2012 TEQSA will hold provider briefings to inform the tertiary education sector about TEQSA and TEQSA's requirements and approach for registration, accreditation and risk assessment’.
  Date : 27 March 2012, Melbourne, Victoria
• Student Health and Welfare in Higher Education Conference 2012
  ‘The conference will address the major issues affecting student health and wellbeing in the tertiary sector, including e.g. mental health, physical health, sexual health and campus security’.
  Date : 27-28 March 2012, Melbourne, Victoria
• International Conference on Teaching and Learning with Technology
  ‘A conference where delegates can get up-to-date on the developments of educational technology in terms of research, pedagogy and technological solutions. Delegates can also look forward to many opportunities to connect and collaborate with educators from individual countries and regions’.
  Date : 27-30 March 2012, Singapore
• Graduate Careers Fairs - Northern Territory
  28 March 2012 - Charles Darwin University.
• Interconnected Tertiary Education
  ‘To increase opportunities for students, it is vital that the connections between Higher Education and Vocational Education and Training providers are sustainable, easy to navigate and put learners first’.
  Date : 28-29 March 2012, Melbourne, Victoria
• Digital Humanities Australasia 2012
  ‘Building, mapping, connecting’.
  Date : 28-30 March 2012, Canberra, ACT
• The Australian National Quality Standards Conference
  ‘Supporting Practice Through Innovation, Reflection and Quality Improvement’. Early Childhood Education.
  Date : 29 March 2012, Adelaide, SA
• The Future of Learning Spaces [TEFMA]
  ‘This will explore current thinking, ideas and trends for teaching and learning spaces for both current and future students’.
  Date : 29-30 March 2012, Auckland, New Zealand
• Graduate Careers Fairs - Western Australia
  29 March 2012 - Curtin University; 30 March 2012 - The Big Meet, Perth Convention & Exhibition Centre.
• Career Development Association of Australia Conference 2012
  Designing Careers, Shaping Workforces. ‘Explore the links between career and workforce development and the value career development brings to building sustainable workforces and quality work and education outcomes for all Australians’. CDAA Masterclass on 28 March.
  Date : 29-30 March 2012, Canberra, ACT
• giftEDnz Conference 2012
  ‘Giftedness Unfurled : Fostering Best Practice in Aotearoa New Zealand’.
  Date : 29-31 March 2012, Wellington, New Zealand
• The Australian National Quality Standards Conference
  ‘Supporting Practice Through Innovation, Reflection and Quality Improvement’. Early Childhood Education.
  Date : 30 March 2012, Melbourne, Victoria

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April 2012

• 2012 AHISA Pastoral Care Conference
  ‘The Pull of the Future : 2012 and Beyond. Get the Pastoral Care Conference 2012 Brochure here’.
  Date : 1-4 April 2012, Sunshine Coast, Queensland
• The Australian National Quality Standards Conference
  ‘Supporting Practice Through Innovation, Reflection and Quality Improvement’. Early Childhood Education.
  Date : 2 April 2012, Sydney, NSW
• The Asian Conference on Arts & Humanities, ACAH 2012
  ‘The 2012 conference theme is “Encounters and Exchanges” and the organisers hope that this will again encourage and inspire exciting new research avenues, and further encourage academic and personal encounters and exchanges across national, religious, cultural and disciplinary divides’.
  Date : 5-8 April 2012, Osaka, Japan
• Catholic Secondary Prinicipals Biennial National Conference 2012
  Please download an Expression of Interest here .
  Date : 10-12 April 2012, Canberra, ACT
• Orff Level 1 & 2 Courses
  ‘The courses focus on learning by doing, helping teachers share their music through practical music making and by creating enjoyable experiences for the students’.
  Date : 10-14 April 2012, Venue to be advised
• 14th National Nurse Education Conference
  ‘This three day nursing event aims to focus on innovations in nursing education in both the clinical and academic arenas, bringing to light the changing demands facing nurse education for the future’.
  Date : 11-13 April 2012, Perth, Western Australia
• DEANZ Conference 2012
  ‘The 2012 DEANZ conference, “Shift Happens - Resilience, Relevance and Reform”, is the premier conference in Aotearoa New Zealand for leaders and practitioners involved in open, flexible and distance learning’.
  Date : 11-13 April 2012, Wellington, New Zealand
• QSA’s Annual Conference 2012
  ‘Shaping teaching and learning : The assessment factor. Across the three days, the conference will cater to a Kindergarten to Year 12 audience’.
  Date : 11-13 April 2012, Brisbane Convention & Exhibition Centre, Brisbane, Queensland
• 2012 Montessori International Conference and Masterclasses
  ‘Watch this space more details soon’.
  Date : 11-15 April 2012, To be confirmed
• Avetra 2012 Conference
  ‘Theme : “The Value and Voice of VET Research : for individuals, industry, the community and the nation”’.
  Date : 12-13 April 2012, Canberra, ACT
• Australian Schools Moodle Conference 2012
  ‘The purpose of SMC2012 is to provide the attendees with the opportunity to learn from key individuals within the education sector who already fully utilise the LMS, to ignite enthusiasm and realise Moodle’s potential as a tool for online learning and engagement !’
  Date : 12-14 April 2012, Brisbane, Queensland
• INQAAHE 2012 Forum
  ‘The overarching theme of the Melbourne Forum is “The future of external quality assurance”’. International Network for Quality Assurance Agencies in Higher Education [INQAAHE].
  Date : 17-18 April 2012, Melbourne, Australia
• QPR 2012 : Quality in Postgraduate Research
  ‘The conference theme for 2012 is Narratives of Transition : Perspectives of Research Leaders, Educators & Postgraduates’.
  Date : 17-20 April 2012, Adelaide, South Australia
• Quality Learning Australia Seminar
  ‘Focuses on the Deming philosophy of Profound Knowledge as it is applied to learning organisations. Each seminar incorporates brain research, current learning strategies, teaming concepts and techniques, as well as effective uses of technology to improve learning environments’. This is the Public seminar. Others sites/dates are also listed.
  Date : 17-20 April 2012, Newcastle, NSW
• NZ Vocational Education & Training Research Forum
  ‘The theme for the 2012 forum is Partnership at Work’.
  Date : 18-19 April 2012, Wellington, New Zealand
• The 2nd Work Integrated Learning Forum
  ‘Gather[ing] leaders of Australia’s tertiary education to lead the discussion on evidence-based approaches for the design and delivery of work-integrated learning’.
  Date : 18-19 April 2012, Melbourne, Victoria
• eBooks & Bytes 2012 Teacher Librarian Summit
  ‘More information to come soon about the hands-on workshops that will are planned for another exciting Teacher Librarian Summit’.
  Date : 19-20 April 2012, University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
• South Australian HPE Conference
  Further information to be finalised.
  Date : 19-20 April 2012, Adelaide, South Australia
• Innovation & Integration in English Language Learning
  ‘We are bringing together English language researchers and educators interested in learning and utilising innovative and integrative frameworks, approaches, and tools in the teaching of languages, cultures, and intercultural communication at post-secondary institutions’.
  Date : 20-22 April 2012, Shantou, China
• The How 2 of Web 2.0 : Online Learning Program
  ‘This online program, complete with podcast instructions, resources and online mentors, offers you “hands-on” experience of the 23 things [or small activities] that you can do on the web to explore and expand your knowledge of the internet and Web 2.0’.
  Date : Commences 23 April 2012, Online
• BOOST, Best of Out-Of-School Time Conference 2012
  ‘Join one of the nation’s largest, most recognised and comprehensive conferences for after school and out-of-school time professionals’.
  Date : 25-28 April 2012, Palm Springs, California
• QSA’s 2012 Conference
  ‘Shaping teaching and learning : The assessment factor. In the two-day conference program, the Kindergarten Forum and the Leadership in Education Forum will be held on day one, with both days offering a broad range of events aimed at Kindergarten to Year 12 educators’.
  Date : 26-27 April 2012, Brisbane, Queensland
• The Asian Conference on Technology in the Classroom
  ‘Conference Theme : Learning, Culture and Society : What role can technology play ?’. New site now available.
  Date : 26-28 April 2012, Osaka, Japan
• The Asian Conference on Language Learning
  ‘The aim of this International Conference is to encourage academics, scholars and practitioners representing a exciting diversity of countries, cultures, and religion to meet and exchange ideas and views in a forum encouraging respectful dialogue’.
  Date : 26-28 April 2012, Osaka, Japan
• Learning@hand
  ‘Learning@hand will showcase the mobile learning [mLearning] and hand held technology that is empowering teachers and students to improve learning outcomes. A key focus of this event will be the use of mLearning devices to better engage and support improvements in the learning outcomes of Indigenous students’.
  Date : 29-30 April 2012, Cairns, Queensland
• Tertiary Studies and Careers Expo Adelaide
  ‘Find the Course. Find the Training. Find your Career. Find it all at TSCEA’.
  Date : 29-30 April 2012, Adelaide, South Australia
• iMoot 2012
  A new site for this will be available soon.
  Date : April 2012, Web-based

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May 2012

• Thought Leaders Series : What is Industry Currency ?
  ‘This forum, jointly hosted by the TDC and LH Martin Institute, is for leaders and managers in the VET/TAFE sector’.
  Date : 1 May 2012, Carlton, Melbourne, Victoria
• Risk Management in Higher Education Forum
  ‘This conference aims to address the silences in the literature to provide delegates with a comprehensive overview of the major areas of risk in higher education ’.
  Date : 3-4 May 2012, RMIT, Melbourne, Victoria
• Intelligent Information Symposium 2012
  ‘Welcome to the inaugural Intelligent Information Symposium for the information profession within the Asia Pacific Region’.
  Date : 3-4 May 2012, Sydney, NSW
• Careers, Education & Employment Expo
  ‘The Expo is recommended for parents of junior school students looking at senior school courses of study; high school students considering a trade or tertiary education; recent school leavers contemplating re-entering the education system; mature age candidates wanting to explore new, more fulfilling employment options and post-graduate professionals looking to expand their knowledge base and skills’.
  Date : 3-6 May 2012, Perth, Western Australia
• The Asian Conference on the Social Sciences, acss 2012
  ‘This year’s conference will again include a variety of presenters representing a wide range of social science disciplines, expressing divergent views, searching for common ground, and creating the synergies that can inspire multi-disciplinary collaboration’.
  Date : 3-6 May 2012, Osaka, Japan
• Resources, Resources, Resources in a New World
  School Library Association of Victoria. Site has relevant details and Expression of Interest form.
  Date : 4 May 2012, Melbourne, Victoria
• The Australian National Quality Standards Conference
  ‘Supporting Practice Through Innovation, Reflection and Quality Improvement’. Early Childhood Education.
  Date : 7 May 2012, Sydney, NSW
• 2nd Annual Student Satisfaction in Higher Education Conference
  ‘A platform for universities and educational providers to engage, interact and understand student needs’.
  Date : 7-9 May 2012, Sydney, NSW
• Outbound Mobility Forum 2012
  ‘Brings together practitioners and leaders in Student Mobility to talk through the current issues, share best practice and look towards the future of our industry’.
  Date : 11 May 2012, Queensland
• Training Providers Forum 2012
  ‘The Forum program will include presentations with the latest information and workshops showcasing examples of good practice in training and workforce development. There are two forum themes : Trends and key issues in workforce development and training and Training pathways for learners’.
  Date : 14-15 May 2012, Burswood Entertainment Complex, Perth, Western Australia
• Institutional Performance in Higher Education
  ‘Defining indicators of success & quality. This conference will address : The implications of increased transparency and information for students and institutions; Driving positive behaviours to lift institutional performance; The role of multi-dimensional comparisons in enriching performance assessment; Successful strategies for achieving quality and improvement in research, teaching and learning’.
  Date : 15-16 May 2012, Melbourne, Victoria
• Nurses for Nurses Network Australia Conference
  ‘A boutique conference, filled with wonderful education sessions as well as lots of exciting excursions and activities’.
  Date : 16-20 May 2012, Hobart, Tasmania
• The Australian National Quality Standards Conference
  ‘Supporting Practice Through Innovation, Reflection and Quality Improvement’. Early Childhood Education.
  Date : 17 May 2012, Perth, WA
• Children’s Book Council of Australia National Conference
  Theme of the conference will be ‘Multistoried’.
  Date : 17-19 May 2012, Adelaide, South Australia
• ACCS Conference 2012
  ‘Building on the reform environment of the early childhood education and care sector, the conference theme is “Change and Leadership : Who is the ringmaster ?”’.
  Date : 18-19 May 2012, Wollongong, NSW
• School Education Expo^™
  ‘An award-winning community event which showcases everything educational for school years’.
  Date : 19-20 May 2012, Adelaide, South Australia
• Leading Teaching And Learning - The How
  ‘As a middle manager, are you keen on finding out more about Developing leadership teams; Developing your Instructional leadership; Using data to drive your faculty’s improvement agenda; Having difficult conversations; Latest events surrounding National Curriculum implementation; The sharing Of Best Practice with colleagues ?’.
  Date : 20-21 May 2012, University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
• 2012 VISTA Residential Conference
  ‘New Directions for Success. The conference explores strategies connecting VET reform with contemporary economic, environmental and social reform’.
  Date : 20-22 May 2012, Yarra Valley, Victoria
• The Australian National Quality Standards Conference
  ‘Supporting Practice Through Innovation, Reflection and Quality Improvement’. Early Childhood Education.
  Date : 21 May 2012, Brisbane, Queensland WA
• Skills Tasmania Conference
  ‘Details will be progressively added to this page’.
  Date : 21-22 May 2012, Hobart, Tasmania
• The 10th Annual Higher Education Summit
  Full details of the conference still to be released.
  Date : 21-22 May 2012, Melbourne, Victoria
• ICE 2012, 17th International Conference on Education
  ‘Teaching and Learning in Technology Mediated Learning Spaces. Download flyer’ here.
  Date : 21-24 May 2012, Darussalam, Brunei
• Inclusive Learning Technologies Conference 2012
  ‘Focuses specifically on “inclusive learning technologies” - technologies designed to advance independent achievement for people with disabilities and/or students with learning difficulties’.
  Date : 22-25 May 2012, Gold Coast, Queensland
• The 4th Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Libraries International Conference
  ‘In QQML2012 we will discuss New Trends in Library Science.’.
  Date : 22-25 May 2012, Limerick, Ireland
• Conscious Classroom Management
  ‘Dealing With Disruptive Classroom Behaviour and Practical Strategies to Engage Students in the Classroom’.
  Date : 24 May 2012, Liverpool, NSW
• Positive Schools Conference 2012
  ‘The Positive Schools Mental Health & Wellbeing Conference is for all teachers Australia-wide. It offers inspirational, sustainable and practical solutions to well-being within schools and colleges’.
  Date : 24-25 May 2012, Perth, Western Australia
• School Libraries Making a difference : What is your evidence and how do you get it ?
  All details are included on the site.
  Date : 25 May 2012, Gold Coast, Queensland
• Scenes Of Reading : Is Australian Literature a World Literature ?
  ‘Part of its annual series of international symposia and book publications on key themes in Australian literary studies’.
  Date : 25-26 May 2012, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW
• Alliance Biennial Staff Conference - AGSA
  ‘Images of a Girl : Diversity, Dilemmas and Future Possibilities’.
  Date : 25-27 May 2012, Melbourne, Victoria
• Conference 2012 : Early Childhood Council
  ‘The ECC National Conference is the highlight of the New Zealand early childhood event calendar. Each year we offer hundreds of attendees the opportunity to be inspired, informed and entertained’.
  Date : 25-27 May 2012, Auckland, New Zealand
• ICTEV 2012 State Conference : Creative Connections
  ‘The theme of our conference is Creative Connections. Creativity is the driving force behind a significant amount of ICT use in schools. Online submissions due : Wed 14 December 2011’.
  Date : 26 May 2012, Melbourne, Victoria
• 2012 Brisbane C&K Conference
  Full details yet to be provided.
  Date : 26-27 May 2012, Brisbane, Queensland
• Executive Leadership & Management in International Education 2012
  ‘Participants will be given insights into the visionary, entrepreneurial, strategic and executive level leadership and management skills required to ensure their institutions’ continuing success in international education’.
  Date : 28-30 May 2012, UNSW CBD Campus, Sydney, Australia
• Assessing Behaviour in Children
  ‘The “ABC Approach” to Solving Challenging Behaviours with Young Children’.
  Date : 28-29 May 2012, Melbourne, Victoria
• 4th Annual Campus & Student Security Conference
  ‘This expert led event is a case study led forum where you can learn directly from a variety of universities and TAFE colleges from around Australia to draw knowledge and experience and structure your security strategy’.
  Date : 28-29 May 2012, Melbourne, Victoria
• Inclusive Strategies for Special Needs Learners
  ‘A thought provoking and profoundly interactive workshop for providers, teachers, parents and school personnel who work or live with children who have special needs’.
  Date : 30-31 May 2012, Melbourne, Victoria
• Technology in K-12 Education National Congress 2012
  ‘Once again, the 2012 Congress will bring together school leaders in a collaborative setting to address best practice strategies for leveraging technology. Complimenting visionary ideas with practical strategies, the agenda will equip school leaders with the tools to embrace the 21st century’
  Date : 30 May/1 June 2012, Sydney, NSW

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June 2012

• 6th Annual Skilling Australia and Workforce Participation Summit
  Exact dates still to be finalised.
  Date : June 2012, Melbourne, Victoria
• AIS Teacher-Librarian Conference 2012
  ‘The annual conference explores the myriad possibilities available to teacher-librarians. Hear the latest with regard to research in our field, along with cutting edge ICT possibilities from expert practitioners’.
  Date : 1 June 2012, Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, NSW
• 2012 Early Childhood Education Conference
  Other details still to be finalised.
  Date : 1-2 June 2012, Caulfield Racecourse, Melbourne, Victoria
• Practical And Effective Strategies for Implementing Differentiated Instruction in the Elementary Classroom
  ‘This two-day workshop is pack with simple practical ideas, Free resources, learning management ideas and dozens of effective ways to differentiate instruction’.
  Date : 1-2 June 2012, Melbourne, Victoria
• The Asian Conference on Cultural Studies, ACCS 2012
  ‘The theme for the 2012 conference is ‘Encounters and Exchanges’ and the programme advisers also suggest the following sub-themes with the hope and expectation that they will excite interesting new interpretations and explorations : ‘Post/colonial or trans/colonial ?’, ‘Transformations of self and place’, ‘Beyond boundaries ?’, ‘Difference, diversity, plurality’, ‘Cultural re/constructions’, ‘Politics and power’, and ‘Ideologies of culture’’.
  Date : 1-3 June 2012, Osaka, Japan
• SJIEC 9th Annual Conference 2012
  ‘ SJIEC 2012 Annual Conference, Save the Date !’.
  Date : 2 June 2012, Redfern, Sydney, NSW
• LIHE’12
  ‘The 7th International Symposium : “Learning In University Education - Contemporary Standpoints”’.
  Date : 3-7 June 2012, Aegina Island, Greece
• Teaching English Language Learners in Mainstream Classes
  ‘This workshop will explore which pedagogical approaches best support students learning English as an additional language to achieve proficiency in academic English’.
  Date : 6 June 2012, Chipping Norton, Sydney, NSW
• Exploring the Reggio Emilia Approach
  ‘Designed to introduce participants to the philosophy and theories behind the Reggio Emilia Approach and how it can be adapted in their setting’.
  Date : 6-8 June 2012, Melbourne, Victoria
• Positive Schools Conference 2012
  ‘The Positive Schools Mental Health & Wellbeing Conference is for all teachers Australia-wide. It offers inspirational, sustainable and practical solutions to well-being within schools and colleges’.
  Date : 7-8 June 2012, Brisbane, Queensland
• WCCI 2012
  ‘The largest technical event in the field of computational intelligence. It will host three conferences’. See site for further details.
  Date : 10-15 June 2012, Brisbane, Queensland
• eLearning Forum Asia 2012
  ‘Offers excellent opportunities for members of the educational community to come together to connect and share their user experiences and approaches in using technologies to improve teaching and learning at their workplace and institutions of learning’.
  Date : 12-14 June 2012, Peking, China
• Positive Schools Conference 2012
  ‘The Positive Schools Mental Health & Wellbeing Conference is for all teachers Australia-wide. It offers inspirational, sustainable and practical solutions to well-being within schools and colleges’.
  Date : 14-15 June 2012, Melbourne, Victoria
• Inaugural Australian Private Higher Education Conference
  ‘Examining sector growth, regulation and best practice’.
  Date : 14-15 June 2012, Melbourne, Victoria
• Second National ITL Masterclass National Conference
  ‘This conference is first and foremost about striving for the highest in your teaching practice. In this day and age you can only do this if you support your teaching practice by using digital technology competently’
  Date : 15-16 June 2012, Adelaide, South Australia
• CICE-2012 Canada International Conference on Education
  ‘The aim of CICE is to provide an opportunity for academicians and professionals from various educational fields with cross-disciplinary interests to bridge the knowledge gap, promote research esteem and the evolution of pedagogy’.
  Date : 18-21 June 2012, Ontario, Canada
• ALA 2012 Annual Conference
  Other details still to be finalised.
  Date : 21-26 June 2012, Anaheim, California, USA
• 37th ECTA Annual Conference 2012
  Other information available soon.
  Date : 23 June 2012, Place to be advised
• Academic Identities Conference 2012
  ‘Our conference will be a boutique event providing a lively forum to exchange thinking and research about the nature and practice of academic identities in all their various guises, from those of academic staff to those of students, from those that are traditional to those that are new’.
  Date : 25-27 June 2012, Auckland, New Zealand
• Social Media in Higher Education Conference
  ‘Explores the important role that social media plays in e-learning, especially within the university sector’.
  Date : 26-27 June 2012, Sydney, NSW
• FYHE 2012
  ‘The conference provides the opportunity to disseminate research and practice for enhancing the first year in higher education. Discussion on a wide variety of subjects is encouraged’.
  Date : 26-29 June 2012, Brisbane, Queensland
• The 5th University Planning and Design Summit
  ‘The leading event dedicated to the growth and development of modern, cutting edge infrastructure across the Australian tertiary landscape ’.
  Date : 27-29 June 2012, Sydney, NSW
• ISCHE [International Standing Conference for the History of Education]
  Details of content still being finalised.
  Date : 27-30 June 2012, Geneva, Switzerland
• 6th Annual Skilling Australia and Workforce Participation Summit
  ‘The Summit will consider the policy framework and examine state and national challenges for skilling the Australian economy at this time’.
  Date : 28-29 June 2012, Melbourne, Victoria

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