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Gonski funding was scrapped and the vocational education sector got a new student loan system. Here’s what else happened in education this year…
How can educators face the new challenges brought by the Alt-Right and post-truth environment?
Working-class students are put off by a perceived future of low pay and high debt.
Scandinavia’s innovative education models present a more diverse and realistic image of the world we live in, and steer clear of gender stereotypes.
The latest PISA report shows Indonesian girls outperforming boys in all subjects. But, overall, Indonesian students are low performers among students of PISA-participating countries.
Leaving school early more than doubles your risk of heart attack, according to a new Australian study.
Bedtime stories can be comforting, chilling and mysterious, but new research highlights how emotions change depending on how children are doing it.
East Asian pupils continue to outpace their counterparts in Western schools.
No Theresa May, “deprioritising” school places for children isn’t the right way to go about reducing immigration figures.
The gender gap matters, and we need to recruit, train and retain more men to care for and educate our youngest children
Acts of arson by Kenyan high school students have been characterised as ‘mindless hooliganism’. But research shows that students are actually engaging in purposeful, reasoned political action.
There are currently far too few vacant academic jobs in Australia each year to employ all our PhD students. It’s time to rethink the training of doctoral students.
Business Briefing: breaking down the 457 visa myths
The Conversation16.4 MB (download)
Policies targeting the 457 visa workers scheme aren't going to improve the employment prospects for low skilled workers and Australia's unemployed, an expert says.
Trump’s demagoguery took political discourse in America to a place where it lost contact with reality.
A detailed new review should encourage us to ask some awkward questions.
Massive expansion of the education system has created new problems, and left old ones unresolved.
We need a clear plan in place to ensure that no child falls through the net. Such a plan needs to be both effective and cost-effective.
A lot was expected from the South African finance minister’s 2016 medium term budget which came amid an unfolding economic crisis including the higher education funding gap.
We need to educate children about how to behave responsibly online.
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Adjunct associate professor, Southern Cross University
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Professor, School of Education, University of Southern Queensland
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Senior Research Fellow, Curtin University
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Associate Professor, Melbourne Centre for the Study of Higher Education, The University of Melbourne
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Professor in the Practice of Higher Education Policy, Australian National University
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Associate Professor of Education Policy and the Future of Schooling, The University of Melbourne
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Research Scientist, African Population and Health Research Center
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Associate Professor in Language, Literacy and TESL, University of Canberra
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Joseph Panzer Chair in Education and Research Professor of Law, University of Dayton
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Senior Lecturer, Murdoch University
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Honorary Senior Fellow, Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor – Information & Communication Technology (ICT), CQUniversity Australia
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Adjunct Professor of Education, Victoria University
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Management Consultant & Occasional Lecturer in Management & Economics, CQUniversity Australia
