Gippsland Education

An agreement to provide region-wide leadership for the Gippsland Youth Commitment was formally endorsed by heads of the Gippsland Region Management Forum at a two day planning meeting in Sale in July.

The Department of Education and Early Childhood Development held a dinner in Morwell recently to celebrate the International Year of Languages.

A gathering of forty-five educators, teachers and community members from Gippsland attended the function in May and were addressed by the Regional Director of Education and Early Childhood Development, Michonne van Rees and guest speaker Dr Jane Orton.

Over 80 local education, industry, community and government leaders attended the launch of the Gippsland Youth Commitment, an initiative to ensure young people achieve the best possible education, training or employment outcomes.

The achievements of senior Koorie students from across Gippsland were recognised at a presentation celebration at Monash University Gippsland Campus last week.

This year 60 Koorie students from nine schools across Gippsland completed Years 10, 11 and 12; a figure that has progressively increased over recent years.

Over 1000 collective years of education experience was celebrated recently as 27 retiring government school principals were officially farewelled.

The function recognised the careers of government school principals from across the region who retired during 2006 and 2007.