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Connecting with Nature in Aged Care
Bringing nature into aged care is more than just a nice idea — it’s a key to better health and happiness for seniors. Nature has a way of maki...
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Connecting with Nature in Early Childhood Education
Nature is one of the best places for kids to spark curiosity and connection, but it doesn’t have to mean taking them out into the wilderness. Any na...
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Neurodiverse Friendly Environment in Child Care
Neurodiversity is an umbrella term that refers to a variety of differences in the way our brains process information and our behavioural traits. When ...
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Neurodiverse Friendly Environment in Aged Care
Neurodiversity is an umbrella term that covers a range of differences in the way people’s brains function, their behavioural traits, and how they pr...
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Celebrate Harmony Day in Child Care
Fostering a culture of inclusivity and unity is paramount in early childhood education, and Harmony Day presents an exceptional opportunity to do just...
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Respecting Cultural Diversity in Aged Care
Aged care is a culturally diverse sector that brings people together from many different backgrounds. This level of diversity is one of the things tha...
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Laetisha Scanlan chooses child care career for work/life balance
It’s a common career misconception that you must pick one industry and stick to it. Forever. It’s simply not true. In this day and age, you can tr...
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Creating a Hazard Free Workplace in Childcare and Aged Care
Creating a hazard-free workplace is something that all employers and employees should aim to achieve – for plenty of reasons. From an economic point...
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Staying Healthy: Spotting and preventing gastro
Working in childcare means you’re more than likely to come across children who are unwell from time to time, but a little knowledge can go a long wa...
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Four Fresh Activities for Aged Care Facilities
While some aged care residents may be quite happy with their routines, many older individuals look forward to trying something new or doing something ...
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Identify and Manage Allergy Symptoms in Children
As a child care worker, chances are you will have one or more children in your care who live with an allergy and allergy symptoms. The allergy ...
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Top 10 Films about Ageing
Ageing is a fact of life, but until it happens to you it can be difficult to fully understand what it’s like. Can you imagine yourself in 10 years? ...
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Tips to Soothe Parental Separation Anxiety
While some children arrive at centres with a smile and are happy to wave goodbye to mum or dad without a worry in the world, others aren’t as...
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9 reasons why males make excellent early childhood educators
Childcare is required fairly equally for both boys and girls, so it makes sense that educators can also be male or female, doesn’t it? As chi...
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Benefits of Yoga and Meditation for Children
Though practiced for thousands of years, yoga is still relatively new in western cultures – but it’s popularity just keeps growing. Yoga cultivate...
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Aged Care: adopting and adapting to new technology
You only need to make a trip to your local supermarket to sense that the way we work, shop and consume is rapidly changing. A big part of this ...
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Top 10 tips for writing a resume that gets results
You have completed your course (yippee!) and it’s time to apply for the job of your dreams. But writing a resume can be daunting. After all, first i...
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Why children need to play outside in winter!
Winter is here and the days of shorts and thongs are gone for a while. It’s all about coats, boots, and scarves. Working in child care, it ca...
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Upskill and claim it this EOFY
If you’re thinking about taking on some extra training to advance in your career, enrol now and take advantage of your potential tax deductions. End...
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VET Graduates find jobs faster and earn more
Graduates of vocational education and training (VET) are on average finding jobs faster and gaining better starting salaries than those with universit...
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Tips to stay motivated while studying
Your career success can often have a lot to do with keeping motivated while studying and pushing through when things get frustrating. If you’re a st...
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6 things to look for when choosing a training provider
Deciding a career path can be a difficult yet exciting decision. Once you do work that part out and find out what what’s required to get job ready, ...
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An eggciting Easter in early childhood
Easter is a time of the year when working in child care is especially fun! Children love Easter and the fun and games that come with it. From the conc...
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Benefits of Training at Selmar!
Pursuing a rewarding career and the qualifications you need for it takes time and energy. There’s no doubt that it pays off, but a little extra supp...
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Flu Vaccination – What you need to know
Flu vaccination often becomes a hot topic as we farewell summer and make our way towards the colder part of the year. There is no hard and fast rule a...
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What Not To Put On Your Resume
Scoring a new job it seems is now more competitive than ever – with prospective employers having the luxury of choosing from more applicants, with g...
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Selmar partnership with Better Caring
At Selmar Institute of Education we are always on the look out for opportunities that enable us to give our students the best training experience poss...
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How To Ace Your Next Job Interview
So, you’ve found your dream job – everything from the company culture to the position description seems like an ideal fit and when you close your ...
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Holi Festival Of Colours in Melbourne
Melbourne’s Tatterson Park in Keysborough will soon become a vibrant playground for hundreds of visitors as the Holi Festival of Colours returns for...
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7 Qualities of an Effective Leader
A leader needs to get the best out a team, but this isn’t always a simple task. We’ve looked to the research to find out what some of the most val...
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3 Signs It’s Time To Change Careers
Here at Selmar we get the privilege of seeing thousands of people reinvent themselves every year. No matter your age or current occupation, you can pu...
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How to gain work experience while studying
Making the decision to study with a respected organisation is an excellent way to build skills and open doors into your new (or improved!) career. In...
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What children want from child care providers
What do children want from their child care providers? It’s a super-important question that’s surprisingly seldom asked. Surprising since ultimate...
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5 Time Management Tips to Study Effectively
Whether you’re studying now or plan to in the future getting your time management right can make all the difference to your success (and stress leve...
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Challenges in child care (and rewards!)
In recent years, Australia has witnessed a massive surge in demand for child care services. Today, more than 1.2 million children attend around 17,000...
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What I learned from working in aged care
Working in aged care comes with many challenges, and many rewards. Here are just a few of the things you’ll discover once you’ve finished your stu...
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