Eid al-fitr, celebrated in Australia in the first week of May in 2022, marks the end of the month-long fast of Ramadan. Eid al-Fitr is usually celebrated with family get-togethers, connection to community, and prayer. It is also a time when people wear new clothes,... Read more

Labour Day (also know as May Day or International Workers Day) is a holiday that is celebrated on May 1st (or the first Monday in September for Canada and the USA) annually by different countries around the word as an acknowledgement of the importance of... Read more

Our Going Global Manager Lottie Dowling interviews Marilyn about what Community Languages are, why education programs for them are important and how Community Languages Education gets addressed across Australia.... Read more

Our Going Global Manager Lottie Dowling interviews Veerle about the neuroscience of learning a language and the benefits of it at different ages.... Read more

Josh Halpern shares with our Going Global Manager Lottie Dowling what he believes are the three core skills that are needed today and in the future to succeed in our increasingly globalised work environments.... Read more

Global Competence is no longer an area of focus for an elite few educators that teach internationally. As we enter 2022 and see how global and local landscapes act and react to the Covid-19 Pandemic, as we see the climate crisis worsen and our young... Read more

Lunar New Year is a traditional festival celebrated every year in China at the start of the year. It is also called Spring Festival or 'Chinese New Year'. As a Lunar Festival, the date changes each year depending on the Lunar Calendar and this year... Read more

As 2022 dawns, Global Ed continues to be one of the fastest growing areas in education. While it has long been true that we live in an interconnected and interdependent world, it is transparently obvious now to everyone as we collectively navigate our world marked... Read more

Little Candles Day is a traditional festival celebrated in Colombia on December 7th each year. The origins of the festival mark the Immaculate Conception in the Christian nativity story and herald the beginning of the Christmas season. Nowadays it is known for it's festive lights... Read more

Christmas is a time of Christmas trees, hot roast dinners and mulled wine, snowmen and snowball fights in a wintery landscape… or is it? Is it a time of prawns on the BBQ, beach cricket and picnics under a Pohutukawa tree? Well, that depends on... Read more