Following a growing nationwide trend toward single-gender classroom education, the first all-girls public school in Colorado will open next year in Denver.
In 2002, only 11 U.S. public schools offered single-gender ...
17 December 2009 - Two new research documents uploaded
The latest abstracts from Kate Broadley are now available in the RESOURCES section of the web site.
One is a glowing personal account of the benefits of girls singe sex schooling, written by the headmistress of a British school. http://agsa.org.au/files/content/984.pdf
The other is a study related to ...
13 November 2009 - St Aidan's Award for Most Outstanding Initiative for the Advancement of Women
St Aidan's won the award for the Most Outstanding Initiative for the Advancement of Women at the recent EOWA (Equal Opportunity for Women in the Workplace Agency) Business Achievement awards. The award was for St Aidan's Aspiring Womens Leadership Conferences that have now seen over 160 women from independent school ...
22 October 2009 - The State of the World's Girls Report Launched
Plan International in collaboration with AusAid has launched the 2009 State of the World's Girls Report. The report can be viewed on their 'Because I am a girl' web site at http://www.becauseiamagirl.com.au/state_of_the_worlds_girls_2009.html
Because I am a Girl is Plan International's global campaign to highlight that investment in girls development ...
19 October 2009 - Time For A Renewed Focus On Women In Science And Technology
Minister Carr today launched a major FASTS report Women in Science in Australia: Maximising Productivity, Diversity and Innovation by Professor Sharon Bell at Parliament House.
In the press release, the President of FASTS, Professor Ken Baldwin, said the report finds the progress of women in science in the past 15 years ...
12 October 2009 - Congratulations to the first Australian woman Nobel Prize winner!
Professor Elizabeth Blackburn, who attended Broadland House, Church of England Girls' Grammar School, Launceston, Tasmania, is a Medicine Nobel Laureate (2009). She co-discovered how chromosomes are protected by telomeres and the enzyme telomerase, with her colleagues Carol Greider and Jack Szostak.
Professor Blackburn is the first Australian woman ...
29 September 2009 - Reports from Sarah and Caitlin, Alliance ambassadors to the NCGS International Girls' Forum
Sarah Gilley, from Ogivlie High School, Hobart, Tasmania, and Caitlin O'Neil, from Lowther Hall Anglican Grammar School, Melbourne, Victoria, have prepared a report on their experiences at the NCGS International Girls' Forum in Bethesda, Maryland US. Two documents, one their personal experiences and the other, ten ideas that they gained ...
21 August 2009 - Welcome to new Alliance Member, Our Lady of the Sacred Heart College
The Alliance welcomes our newest member, Our Lady of the Sacred Heart College, Bentleigh, Victoria, Principal Ms Anne O'Loughlin.
