Tag: education

  • Refuge from the Storm: Internally Displaced Peoples in the age of the Climate Crisis

    My entry for the latest #VizForSocialGood Project, examining internally displaced persons and climate change. This was done ahead of the Virtual Refugee Conference during Refugee Week.

    I was very happy  that my visualisation was chosen as one of the featured visualisations amongst a strong field of participants.

    What is Viz for Social Good?

    Viz for Social Good is a social enterprise that uses data visauliastion to open up conversation on key issues facing our world. From their website:

    Empowering nonprofits through data story We help mission-driven organizations to promote social good and understand their own data through beautiful and informative

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  • International education: A quick skim through Building Australia’s Comparative Advantage.

    While those working in the industry might feel it’s taken for granted given that economic headlines tend to focus on mining and agriculture, Australia’s international education export market is continuing to boom, remaining competitive globally, and often the envy of many other developed nations around the globe.

    And yesterday, Catherine Livingstone, the President of the Business Council of Australia (“BCA”), acknowledged international education’s continued importance to the mix and vitality of the Australian economy when the BCA published their report into the future challenges facing Australia’s economic competitiveness in a report entitled Building Australia’s Comparative Advantage.

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