Education
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Industry hits back at focus on low ATAR results among teaching students
The Australian Council of Deans of Education said it regrets the "latest destructive attack on the selection of teaching students…
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Violence against teachers: Actual stories
"The fact that any teacher has to go through this sort of abuse is ridiculous. We are educators, and we…
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Attention seeking missiles: managing challenging behaviour
If attention can be measured in dollars, we might consider that a student has gone to $1 worth of effort…
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$4.6 billion private school deal fuels inequality: ScoMo funding backlash
"The PM’s decision to gift billions of dollars to independent and Catholic schools, is a mighty expensive marketing exercise to…
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Why I got rejected from Cambridge as an OP1 student
Once upon a time (in Queensland)... As an eager grade 12 student and zealous literary nerd I challenged Cambridge to…
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That weird end-of-term feeling
Relief and worry. I can honestly say that without these breaks throughout the year, I personally wouldn’t be able to…
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Teacher stress and wellbeing: how can we build a sustainable workforce?
Teacher stress is high, in fact teachers exhibit higher levels of stress than any other profession.
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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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Adam Voigt: The line” is about harm and not behaviour
Adam describes his genuinely amazement at how often he's asked one particular question when it comes to serious student behaviour…
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