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One in ten students drop out of uni in their first year.
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If education really is for all, more must be done to help people of all ages to access it.
Can you cut it in this math problem?
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Dreading math class as you head back into school? Never fear: Try these tips from famed mathematician George Pólya.
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An insider’s view.
Telling it like it is?
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We need to revisit tuition fees. The health of Britain’s youth and the country’s future place in the world may well depend on it.
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New data points to misplaced UK clampdown on ‘overstaying’ international students.
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This year’s changes to GCSE grades means results cannot be compared with those of previous years.
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Doctors are taught how to treat skin cancer – but not necessarily how to empathise with those who have it.
For employers, innovation is seen as a purposeful process or task, with structure and format.
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New research shows that young people and employers have different ideas about innovation and the future of work.
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Is it time to ditch tuition fees?
Students at an Atlanta elementary school prep for upcoming state standardized tests.
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Standardized test scores drive many of our decisions about students, teachers and school districts. But research shows that the results are highly predictable, in a bad way.
The Conservatives have traditionally won Exeter’s student vote, but those days may be over.
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A rare find in an Exeter library helps explain why the local student vote switched from the Conservatives to Labour.
Textbooks can be costly.
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A number of universities around the world are providing free textbooks to first year university students as a way to increase retention rates.
What is different about hookup culture on Catholic campuses?
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As Catholicism teaches abstinence before marriage, there is a common perception that Catholic schools would be places without hookup culture. Does faith make a difference?
In Australia, around 41% of students go to private secondary schools.
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If we look at enrolment figures for public secondary schools, it’s untrue to say the steady drift towards private schools has been reversed.
Seeking out a good education can sometimes take you away from what’s familiar.
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If the government is to continue to spend millions toward sending Indigenous children away to boarding school, we need research into how effective this model is, and its impact on communities.
Mental health issues have become a growing problem among students.
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This is how to stop it.
Who is portrayed as Australian? ‘Opening of the first parliament’ Tom Roberts c.1903.
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Despite improvements to their content over time, secondary school history textbooks still imply that ‘real’ Australians are white.
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Who comes up trumps in tertiary education?
Is the sky really the limit when you’re from a poorer background?
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The current system disproportionately limits opportunities for young people from low-income backgrounds.