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News
No state has all the answers in school education
School education in Australia needs to improve in three distinct ways. The Grattan Institute’s State Orange Book 2018 shows how…
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Industry voices
Why R2D2 could be your child’s teacher sooner than you think
Humanoid robots are a unique case for teaching programming skills to students, because students desire to teach the robot how…
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Administration
There’s no argument or support for allowing schools to discriminate against LGBTIQ teachers
Teachers facing discrimination for their sexual and gender identity can’t support students to deal with theirs.
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Health & Safety
How teachers can help support children during their parents’ divorce
Teachers can buffer the stress of divorce or separation and help children adjust to their changed family arrangement. The strategies…
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News
Year 11 and 12 students in NSW will no longer learn about women’s contributions to physics
The new syllabus has 25 scientists mentioned 56 times. But no women are referred to by name, nor are any…
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News
Can you tell fact from fiction in the news? Most students can’t
Despite the issues with trust, news media is a critical part of keeping up to date and informed for most…
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News
NAPLAN 2018 summary results: a few weeks late, but otherwise little change from previous years
This year’s NAPLAN results have finally landed. The results are a few weeks behind schedule, due to disagreement over how scores should…
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News
Fewer students expect to go to university but does this matter?
A smaller proportion of Australian teenagers are expecting to go to university or TAFE than they did 15 years ago,…
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News
Too much praise means students may struggle to cope with failure.
Protecting children from failure has led to a generation of students who appear less able to cope than ever before.
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Education
Sex education needs an overhaul to be more inclusive of different relationships.
Sex and sexuality education is a political hot potato that continues to raise anger from conservative elements of the community.
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