Australian schools

Why bullied children are reluctant to seek help from teachers

In Australia approximately one student in five is bullied at school every few weeks or more often. Many of these…

7 years ago

Which languages should children be learning to get ahead?

There are 7,099 known languages in the world today. Choosing which of these to teach our children as a second…

7 years ago

Australian PISA results indicative of educational inequity

The latest reports from two major international assessments of student learning – PISA and TIMSS - show that educational disadvantage…

7 years ago

Equipping schools for cardiac arrest in young people

Schools have been dealing with scraped knees, sprained ankles and the occasional broken bone for as long as children have…

7 years ago

Call for more Indigenous teachers to ‘close the gap’

With Close the Gap Day behind us, we may allow the mismatch of opportunity and subsequent educational outcomes to peter…

7 years ago

BYOD, done right, could transform learning

Most readers will be aware that ‘Bring your own device’ or BYOD models refer to arrangements where students bring their…

7 years ago

Are selective schools catering to the privileged?

This week in New South Wales, thousands of Year 6 students will sit the selective schools test, hoping to gain…

7 years ago

Is there a crisis in public education?

It is widely claimed that there is a crisis in public schooling, or at the very least, that there is…

7 years ago

Biggest overhaul of NSW year 12 syllabus in 20 years

New syllabuses for HSC English, maths, science and history were released on February 20, updating the knowledge and skills students…

7 years ago

LED lighting for optimum learning spaces

Most people have a rudimentary understanding of how light affects us, but the concept goes far deeper than just light…

7 years ago

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