About the Education Institute
The Royal Children's Hospital (RCH) Education Institute is committed to ensuring continuity of learning and ongoing connectedness to school for children and young people. We aim to build the knowledge base of health and education professionals and the broader community through a strong research agenda, a comprehensive professional learning program and targeted education support services for children and young people and their families.
The RCH Education Institute works in partnership with RCH departments and the Department of Education and Early Childhood Development.
Our Research
Research evidence demonstrating the strong links between health and education as critical to children and young peoples longer term outcomes drives the RCH Education Institutes research agenda.
The recently-formed RCH Education Institute Research Unit is currently focusing on the following themes and projects:
Education and Learning (research)
School transitions (research)
Communication across the school-home-community spectrum (research)
Health and wellbeing (research)
Postgraduate student research projects (research)
Currently we are advertising for a 'Research Fellow' to join our team - the position criteria can be accessed via the link below.
First edition of our newsletter is now available!
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Welcome to the inaugural edition of the Royal Children's Hospital Education Institute newsletter. We hope our newsletter will keep you informed about developments within our organisation and that it will be a source of interest for those working with young people in both the education and health sectors. The RCH Education Institute Newsletter - March 2009 [pdf, 203 kb] |
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Changes to the Royal Children's Hospital Website
A new RCH Education Institute website is currently being developed.
Until then, you will find our current resources under "Support".