Otherways: Home Education Network

Science and Engineering Challenge 2009

[ 8 May 2009; 9:00 am to 3:00 pm. ] The challenge is held at Deakin’s Waurn Ponds Campus, Geelong and is designed, through fun and practical hands-on activities, to inspire young people about the opportunities available in science, technology and engineering. The activities are aimed at Year 10 level. The home ed community has been invited to enter a team and will do so [...]

VCE, Alternatives & University Entrance for Home Ed Students

Home ed students have been accepted into every major Australian university.
Home ed students and their families need to be pro-active in terms of investigating the options and deciding on the best route for each student. We provide the following information to get you started.
Some home ed students who wish to go on to university undertake [...]

Alternatives to VCE

There are various alternatives to VCE. Read on to find out more…

AYCE Program
This program was set up by Yea High School many years ago and has now spread to many centres around the state. Through it you can do your entire secondary education including VCE. You are required to meet once a week at your [...]

Dancing Classes – Teen Spring Formal

[ 25 August 2008; 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm. 1 September 2008; 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm. 8 September 2008; 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm. 15 September 2008; 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm. ] Dancing lessons have been arranged in connection with the Teen Spring Formal.
Venue: At Banyule Net Centre (back of Macloed Secondary College) Melways Ref 20 B8
Time: 7:30-9:30 p.m. Mondays

All welcome, young and old.
$2 per person

You can purchase your tickets to the spring formal at the early bird price ($15)
We will be learning foxtrot,waltz,swing,rhumba,& some circle [...]

Studying Through Open University

By Sharee Cordes
I think it all started for us when Jayden became interested in linguistics. I was searching on the internet for some way to help him find out more about linguistics when I came across the Open Universities Australia website. Unfortunately they don’t offer any undergraduate linguistics subjects, but there were so many other [...]

AYCE Program in Castlemaine

There is a possibility of the AYCE program starting in Castlemaine for term 4 this year.
For those of you who don’t know, this program was started at Yea High School and has since spread to other areas. It allows students who do not wish to attend school, to complete the usual school curriculum by [...]

Deakin Science Activities

This is an article from Deakin’s newsletter about the Science activities in December for home ed kids.
http://www.deakin.edu.au/news/network/current/scitech-homeschooling.php

Teenager Video

Video made by a home educated teenager in Victoria. Starring home educated teenagers! See how well she has matched the pictures to the sound track, and the story that they tell. An excellent film.

The Time of Our Lives
A good promotion for home educating teenagers!

Meet Dr Chan, High Achiever with a PhD at 21

by Adam Morton / The Age
© The Age. Reproduced by Permission.
March 8, 2006
It figures: after completing year 12 subjects at 10, mathematician Yao-ban Chan has now become Melbourne University’s youngest-ever PhD graduate.
WHEN he was 10, while his peers swung from monkey bars and charged around with rugby balls, Yao-ban Chan sat year 12 exams in [...]

Teenagers – you can quit school and still get a good education!

by Lyn Loxton, – Home Education Network 2005

See also
VCE, Alternatives and University Entrance