About the Education Institute
The Royal Children's Hospital (RCH) Education Institute is committed to ensuring continuity of learning and ongoing connection 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.
2009 in review
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View Khoa's story—the education journey of a remarkable young man, Khoa Pham, since being diagnosed with a brain tumour in August 2008. To view this movie, you may need to download and install the free Adobe Flash Player. |
Our research
Research evidence demonstrating the strong links between health and education as critical to children and young people's longer term outcomes drives the RCH Education Institute's research agenda.
The RCH Education Institute Research Unit is currently focusing on the following themes and projects:
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Education and Learning (research)
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School transitions (research)
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Communication across the school-home-community spectrum (research)
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Health and wellbeing (research)
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Postgraduate student research projects (research)
Changes to our website
A new RCH Education Institute website is currently being developed, that will provide useful and relevant information for children, young people, parents, education professionals and health professionals.
Until then, please access current resources under "Support".