Three-quarters of the academic journals that folded served the arts, social sciences and humanities. The losses weaken the academic communities and activities that formed around these journals.
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Teachers can inspire children and young people to feel hopeful and promote a sense of agency through thoughtful, honest discussion and developmentally appropriate activities.
While COVID forced a shift online, that doesn’t mean universities should roll back all the changes. A hybrid model of teaching and learning is now the best way to prepare students for a digital world.
A decade ago, it was hoped the Gonski reforms would level the playing field for Australian students, but the system is now even more unfair. A new book lays out how it all went wrong.
A study of how schools deliver financial literacy education has identified better ways to help students master the basics they all need to know for real-life financial situations.
As a result of long remote learning periods due to COVID, many families have found they prefer this method over traditional school.
There was a striking gender divide in Australia’s international student data in year one of the pandemic. Women were more likely both to enrol and to succeed in their studies.
The first challenge is to attract new teachers, the second is to keep them. More pay might help with recruitment, but research suggests we need to look at the conditions of work to stem the losses.
Research shows the brain processes language as if it’s music, which helps explain the link between music education and gains in literacy. Unfortunately, not all states have heeded the evidence.
We live in a digital and distributed world. Universities must adapt to that reality to do a better job of meeting today’s educational needs.
Construction is one of Australia’s fastest growing industries and offers higher than average wages. It is also Australia’s most male dominated industry.
The benefits of sport for young people include not only health and enjoyment, but also an appreciation of many of the civic values and ethics that make our democracy work.
Students’ evaluations can be very personal and many factors can skew survey responses. But surveys can be designed to produce more valid and reliable results that could be used to improve teaching.
We can waste an awful lot of time on social media because of the engaging, even addictive, nature of platforms like Tiktok. But teachers are now exploiting these qualities for learning languages.
There is endless debate about whether private schools add value to students’ academic results. But research consistently shows when socioeconomic factors are taken into account, this is not the case.
Asylum seekers in Australia who arrived by boat mainly hold temporary visas. If they want to attend university, they have to pay international fees.
Talk of “breaking down the barriers” is all too often a cover for breaking down academic disciplines to create administrative flexibility.
By pushing the timing of approval back to April, likely just before the election, the government has put itself in a position to use the curriculum to score political points.
Researchers reviewed 45 programs that aim to improve educational outcomes for disadvantaged students. This is what they found, and their recommendations to make Australia’s education more equitable.
Students from equity groups gained the most from the block model, but the arrival of the COVID-affected generation will require all universities to pay more attention to teaching and student support.
Those who oppose inclusive teaching content often claim to be representing parents’ views. The evidence from a large national survey of parents shows those claims are very wrong.
Contact languages are widely spoken by many First Nations children. These languages must be recognised and valued in the classroom to better meet students’ learning needs.
Many employers are waiting just as anxiously as universities for international students to return to our shores. The students’ labour is especially important for the hospitality and care sectors.
While the official figures are lower than earlier estimates of job losses, they also show certain types of employees – casual, non-academic and younger staff – bore the brunt of the staff cuts.
The male-dominated makeup of the industry partners who are meant to lead the commercialisation of research could undermine the work towards gender equity in Australian universities.