The 27 Innovative Education Partners in the Alliance

As part of the triple-helix innovation model, each Sprint includes a Victorian and international education partner. Together, they will test the efficacy of the product’s solutions in their given educational settings.

The Global Victoria EdTech Innovation Alliance projects are deploying their solutions in education settings all across the world. This list includes global research universities and schools at the helm of education innovation and digital transformation. We are thrilled to have these institutions on board to test Victorian EdTech solutions for their real impact and efficacy. 

Through a structured, formal framework, the Alliance coordinates the cooperation between providers, education technology companies and academics to trial technologies that solve and enhance learning outcomes. The program incorporates all the virtues of the triple-helix innovation model. It will extend that model to include the efficacy and showcasing of innovation in the education sector that is an absolute prerequisite to large-scale education innovation.

Through facilitating the deployment of the Victorian EdTech solutions, these schools and universities provide feedback on the benefits and opportunities for development. This is a unique and valuable partnership to have for EdTech companies — one that is not easy to facilitate with the cost of research support and resourcing requirements. 

This cohort is truly diverse, with schools and institutions located in Victoria, Mexico, the United States and more. It shows the potential of Victorian EdTech to impact learners not only in Australia, but around the world. 

K-12 Schools
Higher Education and VET
Consulting

K-12 Schools

Brighton Secondary College
Brighton, Victoria, Australia

Brighton Secondary College is a co-educational, government secondary college catering for over 1,200 students from Years 7 – 12.  The college is based in Brighton, Victoria.

The school has a state-of-the-art, $5 million Science, Arts and Technology wing, named the da Vinci Centre. The Select Entry Accelerated Program, International Baccalaureate, and the VCE are all offered at the college.

Edgbarrow School
Crowthorne, United Kingdom

Edgbarrow School is located in the village of Crowthorne, Berkshire, in the United Kingdom. The school has approximately 1,530 students on roll, including 420 students in Sixth Form. Edgbarrow celebrates students from a range of backgrounds and welcomes students with additional needs.

Teachers deliver the curriculum through a range of digital platforms. Digital literacy is an integral component of the learning experience at Edgbarrow School. In an increasingly technology-driven society, Edgbarrow aims to equip students with the lifelong skills to excel after they graduate.

Foyle College
Derry, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom

Over 390 years old, Foyle College is a co-educational school in Derry, Northern Ireland. The school serves ages 11 to 18. 

The school has a focus on skills for the future, with multiple technology and computer suites available to students. Foyle College provides a wide breadth of courses for students to choose from. 

Heathmont College
Heathmont, Victoria, Australia

Heathmont College is a co-educational secondary school in Victoria, teaching 700 students from years 7 to 12. 

As a leading school in the Maroondah Positive Education Network, Heathmont College embodies a positive climate for learning and sets high expectations for all members of their community. Heathmont College believes that the use of digital technologies at school allows the development of valuable skills and knowledge and prepares students to thrive in a globalised and interconnected world. 

Kingsley Park Primary School
Frankston, Victoria, Australia

Kingsley Park Primary School is a co-educational school in Victoria that serves pre-kindergarten to year 6.  The school maintains a high focus on structuring differentiated learning programs to cater for the individual learning needs of all students. Teachers personalise learning to maximise student growth in all areas

All subjects at the school are enhanced through using innovative digital technologies.

Mill Park Secondary College
Mill Park, Victoria, Australia

Mill Park Secondary College is a co-educational secondary school in Victoria, teaching years 7 to 12. Mill Park Secondary College works in partnership with students, families and the community to maximise academic, social and emotional growth. 

The school embraces diversity. The college’s current student population originates from over 60 countries, with over 50% of students originally born outside of Australia. 

The school offers over 50 VCE and VET subjects, which helps students to specialise in subject areas which best support their future aspirations.

Parade College
Bundoora, Victoria, Australia

Parade College is a member of the national body of Catholic schools known as Edmund Rice Education Australia (EREA). The College programs and teaching approaches support and promote the principles and practice of Australian democracy, including a commitment to elected Government, the rule of law, equal rights for all before the law, freedom of religion, freedom of speech and association, and the values of openness and tolerance.

Digital learning is embedded into the college’s 2017-2020 Strategic Plan: ‘Promote expansion of Digital Technologies curriculum offerings, and sustain and further develop e-learning skills both for staff and students, especially with the ongoing commitment to one-to-one devices.’

Pascoe Vale Girls’ College
Pascoe Vale, Victoria, Australia

Established in 1956, Pascoe Vale Girls’ College teaches 1,400 students from years 7 to 12. Respect, diversity and achievement are at the core of the school’s mission.

Pascoe Vale Girls College is committed to providing a quality, relevant education that incorporates eLearning platforms. The school has developed an Information Communication Technology infrastructure and strategies to enhance student learning and foster home/school communication.

The College operates a Bring Your Own Device program from Years 7 – 12. Students are required to bring a suitable laptop computer to school each day. This program is designed to provide students with constant access to a diverse range of quality learning materials, as well as enabling them to participate in rich, ICT based learning activities.

Port Vila International School
Port Vila, Vanuatu

Established in 1985. Port Vila International School (PVIS) provides teaching using the international standard Australian Curriculum, adapted for the Vanuatu context.

While PVIS began as a school for international families, our largest enrolment group is currently Ni-Vanuatu. More than 20 different nationalities are represented at the school. 

Digital literacy and competences are an embedded part of the school’s strategic plan. Their aim is to include robotics, AI and digital delivery of education into the curriculum for years 5 to 10. 

Queen Margaret College
Wellington, New Zealand

Queen Margaret College is an independent girls’ school in Wellington, New Zealand. The college provides education for students from Years 1 to 13. The school is the largest, independent girls’ school in Wellington and the only girls’ school in the lower North Island offering a dual qualification pathway of either the IB Diploma or NCEA.

The students have numerous opportunities for involvement, high-level performance and leadership through sporting and cultural activities and the extensive exchange programme with sister schools. The college is future focused with technology integrated throughout the curriculum equipping students for today’s digital world.

Surf Coast Secondary College
Torquay, Victoria, Australia

Surf Coast Secondary College is the largest secondary school on the Surf Coast of Australia. The college’s dynamic curriculum, combined with state-of-the-art facilities and outstanding teachers, provide all students with the skills to set them up for their adult lives.

Adapting their teaching methods to new innovations, online learning is now standard in Surf Coast Secondary College classrooms. This has highlighted the need to focus on each student’s individual needs and learning requirements.

Higher Education and VET

Acsenda School of Management
Vancouver, Canada

Acsenda School of Management is a private post-secondary institution located in Vancouver. The school offers undergraduate degrees in both business administration and hospitality management.

With students from over 43 different countries, Acsenda prioritizes the global job market at large, adapting the curriculum to prepare students for the international business climate.

Universidad Anahuac
Mexico City, Mexico

Universidad Anahuac is a private university based in Mexico City, Mexico. They are a globally-minded university, with research as an institutional priority. The university ranks as the 3rd top university in Mexico, and is in the top 2% of world university rankings. Their curriculums have a competence-based approach, equipping their graduates with professional skills to excel in the workplace. 

The university has the Innovation and Development Coordination, which fosters an entrepreneurial and innovation culture at the school. There is also the IDEARSE Business Accelerator, which supports the growth of entrepreneurs and small-to-medium enterprises in order to improve their competitiveness, market opportunity and scalability. 

University of Dayton
Dayton, Ohio, USA

Founded in 1850, the University of Dayton is a private, Catholic research university in Ohio, USA. There are just over 12,000 students across their undergraduate and graduate programs. 

There are more than 40 research centres and institutes at the university, including an Innovation Center that works with over 200 companies worldwide to place their engineering students in project-based learning programs. They are #1 Catholic University for engineering research and development and received $195 million in sponsored research in 2020 alone. 

The university is a firm believer in the power of partnerships, forming these relationships in innovation and entrepreneurship, community building, education, and for research and development. 

University of Dayton Institute of Applied Creativity for Transformation

La Trobe University
Melbourne, Australia

La Trobe University is a public research university with 7 campuses across Victoria and New South Wales. The university holds a 5-star QS rating for world-standard facilities, teaching and research, as well as innovation, inclusiveness and internationalisation.

The university is home to the Innovation & Research Precinct, and is set to open the Digital Innovation Hub. The Digital Innovation Hub, will connect La Trobe and its technology partners with businesses to improve their processes, products and services through the use of digital technologies and development of digital workforce skills.  The Hub will provide businesses of all sizes with access to computing and network platforms and technologies to develop, test and take advantage of digital solutions to support their business growth. 

University of Manchester
Manchester, United Kingdom

Graduates and researchers of the University of Manchester have developed scientific and social innovations that have changed the world. In 2021, they were ranked #1 in the world in the Times Higher Education University Impact Rankings for their contributions in tackling the Sustainable Development Goals. There are 25 Nobel Prize winners among former students and staff — a testament to the environment of critical thinking and innovation at the university.

The University of Manchester is the largest university in the UK with over 44,000 students, and is part of the Russell Group consortium. ID Manchester will be an innovation district in the heart of the city. This £1.5 billion project will support the university’s key goals in becoming the top university in Europe for innovation.

University of Melbourne
Melbourne, Australia

The University of Melbourne is a leading, international research university based in Melbourne, Australia. Established in 1853, it has been consistently ranked as a leading university for research and teaching —  #1 in Australia and #33 in the world, by the Times Higher Education ranking system.

The University of Melbourne is a member of the prestigious “Group of Eight” research-intensive universities in Australia, the Universitas 21 and Association of Pacific Rim Universities networks. 

The university currently has over 54,000 students, 44% of which are international students. There is a strong focus on developing graduates for the workforce of tomorrow, and as a result was ranked #8 in graduate employability by QS Graduate Employability 2021. 

University of Melbourne - 2022 Logo

Monash University
Melbourne, Australia

Monash University is a global, research-intensive university in Melbourne, Australia. Over 86,000 students attend their university across the programs, and have more than 150 active fields of research.

Partnerships and innovation through these partnerships is core to their mission. Developed in partnership with the state government, the Monash Technology Precinct contributes $9.4 billion annually to the Victorian economy. The Precinct hosts a number of hubs and clusters. Through their accelerator program ‘The Generator’, they have supported 455 startup projects since 2017. 

At their Conceptual PlayLab, they test play-based models for teaching science, technology, engineering and mathematics to young children. They conduct foundational research for concept formation in STEM and observe how families create the conditions for creative cognition, all the while developing a national evidence-based model of intentional teaching of STEM. 

Tsinghua University
Beijing, China

Tsinghua University is a major public research university in Beijing, China. It is home to over 50,000 students across their graduate and undergraduate programs. Since its founding, the university has been interested in the interaction between Eastern and Western cultures, the ancient and the modern, and humanities and the sciences. It is ranked #16 in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings.

The university has a strong focus on innovation. They have solely developed and co-developed two digital learning platforms, Xuetangx.com and Rain Classroom, to support their students. Tsinghua SEM Center for Internet Development and Governance (CIDG), founded in April 2016, was established in response to the National Strategy of Reinvigorating China through Network. Committed to leading the digital transformation of China’s economy by thought, the center integrates the global resources of top-level experts, makes full use of cutting-edge technologies, carries out research focusing on the fields of the digital economy, business innovation in the era of global interconnection, digital transformation of Chinese economy, and internet governance.

Consulting

Education Design Lab
Washington D.C., USA

Based in Washington D.C. the Education Design Lab is a non-profit organisation that works with 930+ colleges and organizations, 530+ employers, 24+ regions, and thousands of learners, who need education programs and pathways that better serve their futures.

The Lab codesigns and builds equitable, learner-centered approaches with their clients. They specialise in designing specifically for certain learner groups, as well as adapting curriculums to the future of learning and work. They have micro-credentialing experience, an innovation community of 2500 collaborators and are pioneers in human-centered design for education institutions. 

Holmes Institute
Melbourne, Australia

Established in 1963, Holmes Institute is a multi-sectoral provider of education with faculties of Vocational Education and Training, Higher Education and Secondary Education. Holmes Institute is committed to providing the highest quality education to enable and empower its students to seek self-improvement, irrespective of nationality, gender or belief.

The Institute is a quality provider of secondary, vocational and higher education, with a focus on both domestic and international students. By the dedicated pursuit of best practice teaching and the provision of a dynamic, student-centred learning environment Holmes fosters in its students rational thought, intellectual integrity and social responsibility.

International Marketing Corporation
Melbourne, Australia

The International Marketing Corporation is a consultancy based in Melbourne, Australia.

Philippines Canada Trade Council
Vancouver, Canada

The Philippines Canada Trade Council (PCTC) was established in 1983 as a non-stock, non-profit organization, registered under the Federal Laws of Canada, for the promotion of trade and investment between the Philippines and Canada. Their vision is to be the leading non-governmental association in Canada promoting and assisting trade and business between Canada and the Philippines.

Individual Education Consultants
India and Singapore

Education leaders in India and Singapore will assist in the evaluation of Intellischool’s solution, review it against their own school curriculums and priorities, and provide constructive feedback. 

The Global Victoria EdTech Innovation Alliance program is funded by the Victorian Government as part of the $3.6 million International Research Partnerships program under the International Education Short-Term Sector Recovery Plan.

For more information about the initiative visit Global Victoria EdTech Innovation Alliance.