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Safe Schools Coalition has been the focus of hot debate, but there is little evidence to support the anxieties around its mission.
Helping your teenager with their homework can make them feel incompetent and can hinder their own skills development.
Between 50-75% of all collaborations fail. Here are some tips on how to set up a successful collaboration between academia and industry.
If we’re serious about closing the gap in Indigenous education, our new research shows the value of building better bridges into universities and vocational education.
The Closing the Gap report shows a mix of successes and failures, but early childhood education holds the key to significant progress.
A leaked paper suggests that the federal government should take over funding VET courses. But it’s a path we should tread with great caution.
Children don’t learn much about how illnesses spread if they are just taught a list of dos and don’ts. They need to know why an action is useful.
The risks posed by deregulating the vocational education and training sector have serious impacts for large sections of the labour market.
Tracing over maths problems can enhance students’ learning of more advanced mathematical content and multi-step problems.
Indonesia should cultivate a culture of peer-review to support academics produce basic social research, essential in creating good policies in the world’s fourth most populous country.
Around one in five Australian school students are disengaged, leading to disruptive behaviours in class and students dropping out.
The start of a new school year is the time when shy teenagers are least likely to be excluded from new friendship groups.
Funding is one of the few areas Labor has left to distinguish itself from the Coalition when it comes to school policy at the national level.
Basic foods can fulfil a child’s nutritional needs at school and keep them energetic and alert.
Labor has announced it will commit to fully funding Gonski, with a reform package costing $37.3 billion over the next decade.
But is this actually what the Gonski review recommended?
Parents need to be pushier and demand private school places for their children.
Is Universities Australia right to say that new data shows that the growth in new university enrolments has flat-lined?
Children with disabilities are frequently discriminated against in Australian schools, with parents asked to send their child to another school or fork out extra money.
By tying funding to disability categories, schools and parents are being put under pressure to seek a diagnosis for their child in order to get funding support.
As the new school year begins, here’s some advice for how parents and teachers can get off on the right foot.
Inner-city parents in urban redevelopment zones are the most likely to have problems getting their children into a government school.
A change in enrolment patterns demands a more comprehensive approach to selection to teacher education programs that goes beyond establishing minimum ATAR cutoff points.
Rather than being microcosms of the community, schools are increasingly divided by class and ethnicity.
You wouldn’t feel so confident about claiming you weren’t good at reading, so why is it okay to be openly negative about mathematics?