News

Welcome to the latest Alliance News. Choose an article from below to find out what's new or click on the links above for particular topics.

• The Stories Project

  7 May 2012

  Alliance partner CIRCLE has launched The Stories Project. This media project makes innovative use of film, web presence, print and social media to answer the question What story inspires you? For the full project brief, log on or...

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• Girls and Physical Space

  2 Apr 2012

  Volume 48 of our in Alliance magazine will be posted out after Easter; check your mailboxes for this stimulating read! Girls and Physical Space is the magazine theme; this issue is packed full of the latest research, bright photographs...

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• Leonard Sax speaks at Alliance schools

  2 Apr 2012

  Leonard Sax has recently visited Australia to speak at a number of Alliance member schools in Queensland, NSW and SA. Parents, staff and students were engaged with Leonard’s messages about girls’ living and learning in the...

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• Alliance Staff conference - Register staff from your school now

  21 Mar 2012

  The Alliance of Girls Schools Australasia Biennial conference aims to present speakers who have a broad and significant understanding of issues which face girls and women in Australia. Informed by the conference theme of Images of a...

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• Female Science mentors in schools

  26 Mar 2012

  Much research over the past decade has highlighted the differences between male and female participation rates in the STEM fields. Studies have also shown that female mentors can be particularly useful and inspiring for girls in schools...

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• Girls and maths, a British perspective

  16 Mar 2012

  This article from The Telegraph raises several issues about girls studying maths, including stereotyping and fear of failure. Telegraph article

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• Anita Heiss' Blog

  15 Mar 2012

  Our Patron, Anita Heiss, has written an entry in her blog about International Women's Day 2012. Anita spent the day at Mt Alvernia College in Kedron, Brisbane. Her blog entry is full of praise for the girls and staff at this Alliance...

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• International Women’s Day

  9 Mar 2012

  We have provided links to three interesting articles to celebrate International Women’s Day. The first is an article by Ms Samantha Bolton, Dean of Studies at Brisbane Girls Grammar. Samantha questions if feminism is...

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• Women making a difference

  8 Mar 2012

  On this International Women’s Day, Judy Crowe, Principal of Melbourne Girls College, has been honoured in The Age newspaper for being a “Woman making a difference”. Judy was also in The Age earlier this week, commenting about...

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• Students from Ravenswood School for Girls join the cadet corps

  20 Feb 2012

  Forty girls from Ravenswood School for Girls have become the school's first group of cadets. Read the full story at The Sydney Morning Herald online, click here.

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• National Conference on Girls' Education, Washington DC

  15 Feb 2012

  The first joint conference co-hosted by the National Coalition of Girls' Schools (NCGS) and the Young Women's Leadership Network (YWLN)  which represents public girls' schools in the US was recently held in Washington DC...

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• Alliance schools feature in The Age newspaper

  13 Feb 2012

  The Age newspaper featured a double-spread on girls’ schools today. Four Alliance member schools, St Michael’s Collegiate in Tasmania and three Victorian schools; Lowther Hall, Melbourne Girls’ College and Firbank...

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• Register for the Alliance Biennial Conference now!

  1 Feb 2012

  REGISTER TODAY! 25 - 27 MAY 2012 NOTE: IT IS IMPORTANT TO LOGIN FIRST IF YOU ARE A MEMBER TO ENSURE YOU ARE CHARGED AT THE MEMBER RATES. Registrations are now open for the Alliance Biennial Conference, to be hosted by Melbourne...

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• Employment opportunities at Alliance member schools

  4 Feb 2012

  There are currently several  positions available at Korowa, Ivanhoe GGS and Walford . Please go to our Members page to view these exciting opportunities. The Alliance is trialling advertising job vacancies for our...

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• Alliance member schools ranked in Western Australia’s top 30 schools

  16 Jan 2012

  Nine Alliance member schools have ranked in the top 30 schools in Western Australia, based on their Year 12 achievement data for 2011. The Curriculum Council of Western Australia released their report on January 12 and it can be...

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• NEWS FROM 2011

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Schooling For Girls

If you are well taught you never forget it. And I do retain a strong partiality towards the idea of single sex schooling for girls. I certainly appreciate, in retrospect, the space it gave all of us to test ourselves and to do so in an uninhibited way.

Maxine McKew Former Federal Politician and ABC Journalist; Graduate of All Hallows School in Brisbane

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