Education

A new survey of 1000 Victorian parents and teachers shows it is life skills that are considered more valuable for students than their final academic result.

Whether you were born in December, January, August or September can have a significant and long-lasting impact on your life. Our new research shows your birthday month may also contribute to shaping your personality. In particular, we found people’s self-confidence can significantly differ because of their month of birth.

“We found that 39% of Australian women and 26% of Australian men told us they have been sexually harassed at work in the past five years, both a significant increase on 2012.”

Many educators only know two speeds – flat out and asleep. We often rush from one priority or crisis to another. While we often feel overloaded, somewhere inside we also like the sense of being indispensable and in-demand. This is typical of an adrenaline junkie.

One finding: On average, girls’ grades were higher than boys’, and girls’ grades were less variable than boys’.

“This extra funding would mean smaller public school class sizes, more teachers and support staff, and more one-on-one individual attention for public school students.”

Adam Voigt writes: Rachael Robertson is a quite remarkable Australian. Inspired by little more than an ad in the local paper, this totally unqualified woman applied for a role on a 12-month Australian scientific expedition to Antarctica. She was not only accepted, she was made the mission leader – for reasons that even Rachel finds it difficult to explain.

Sexual relationships with students, inappropriate sleepovers and  sexting were listed as some of the disturbing behaviours for which the Queensland College of Teachers launched proceedings. According to reports, five of the 24 teachers who have either been banned or suspended are female. 

Teachers can buffer the stress of divorce or separation and help children adjust to their changed family arrangement. The strategies for teachers identified in this study can help teachers support children and families through these unsettled times.

"I have worked pretty consistently for the past 15 years, so knowing that this break I would be taking is for a long stretch of time definitely played on my mind."