Australian schools
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Teaching Resources
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…
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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…
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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…
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Education
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…
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Administration
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…
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