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Aspiring NSW principals have gone back to school as part of the NSW Government’s push to raise teaching standards across the State.

Theodore proudly wears his school uniform each day, attends assemblies and among many other duties, distracts anxious students during immunisations.

Regulating tuition fees or offering more grants and exceptions for high achieving students entering a degree like teaching where there is a need for new blood, might be the only option to avoid the kind of teaching shortage New Zealand is experiencing right now.

If instead, we sought to create a culture where participants are geared or conditioned to help each other, rather than compete, then we might find that rules and laws become less relevant.

Of this number, nearly eight out of 10 public school teachers buy stationery or classroom equipment, while nearly half of public school teachers buy library resources and textbooks.

Primary teacher Brett Crawford has transformed science learning at his state school, where English is a second language for 60% of students and there’s a large cohort of hearing-impaired children. Deputy principal, STEM, for the Cessnock Learning Community, Dr Scott Sleap created a program to help students struggling with numeracy catch up with the help of robotics.

While Victoria's advantaged students and NSW's disadvantaged students lack progression, ACT was the worst performer in the Grattan Institute's latest  measure of student progress. 

To put the figure in perspective, $56B is larger than the contribution of the entire Australian tourism industry and four times the size of the Australian beef industry.

Humanoid robots are a unique case for teaching programming skills to students, because students desire to teach the robot how to do things without initially knowing how to do so.

The last term of school is typically when we can start to see an increase in unexplained student absences from school