School holidays become a very different challenge when kids leave primary school.
Academic rigour, journalistic flair
Education – Articles, Analysis, Comment
Displaying 176 - 200 of 2746 articles
The $128 million funding boost for the tertiary sector is only a stop-gap measure. But it can buy time for a genuine rethink of the entire system.
In a series of research forums young people talked about their fears around going to high school. And what kind of support they want.
Previous studies of baby talk have focussed on European languages, Mandarin and Japanese. For the first time, research looks at an Australian Indigenous language.
Stuff cuts are just the most visible aspect of critical problems within the modern university, as a new survey of academic workers reveals.
There has been a huge amount of speculation about what ChatGPT means for university study. But has actually been happening? A new survey looks at the first semester with this new technology.
Long gone are the days when a school report came on one handwritten page, with grades and comments like, ‘tried hard, but needs to try harder’.
With the pandemic-fuelled shift to online learning, many tertiary students now miss out on the social skills critical to real-world success. That could have implications for their degrees.
These programs may seem like a good idea. But they can threaten children’s engagement in learning and undermine teachers’ professional skills.
In a new study, students say they want access to indoor and outdoor play spaces at vertical schools. But they don’t want too much noise.
Channel 9’s program Parental Guidance has been pitting 12 different types of parenting against each other to work out which is ‘best’.
The crisis in New Zealand universities is directly traceable to years of sustained underfunding and means they now lack vital research and development capacity.
Design flaws in the application process can see school leavers miss out on studying their most preferred degree, even if they are eligible to do it.
Microcredentials are short courses in a specific area of study and are becoming more popular in universities. They offer quick study but may not be for everyone.
The way Australia’s school system is structured is especially unfair on students from disadvantaged backgrounds.
Teaching climate change in schools raises basic and potentially divisive questions about the purpose of education and the nature of childhood.
Our work with ‘special assistance schools’ shows how we can retain and engage students if they are treated with more respect and given more choice in the senior years.
Handwriting is not just about forming letters. It also develops fine motor skills, helps with memory and even wellbeing.
New research looked at NSW Year 12 results in English and maths and tested if socioeconomic status or rural location impacts student results.
Students who study remotely need to have someone supervise them in-person. If it’s not a family member, it is an external tutor, who are hard to recruit and keep.
From ‘slacking’ to ‘stalling’, ‘faking’ and ‘mimicking’, students use a wide variety of behaviours to avoid doing their maths lessons.
An estimated 40% of children leave primary school without being able to swim the length of an Olympic swimming pool.
Making study materials free could potentially allow students to take multiple units from different universities. It would also make higher education much more accessible.
Research shows plenty of people think about becoming teachers. We also know mid-career teachers’ expectations don’t match reality once they make it to the classroom.
In new interview research, young people say sex education most often occurs without discussing actual sex.