Many middle-class parents buy classical CDs because it is supposed to make their kids clever. But a jazz-loving academic has started using her favourite genre in early childhood learning.
Members of South Africa’s main opposition party, the Democratic Alliance, rally for the youth wage subsidy.
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South Africa’s labour market suffers from high unemployment. Reform of the education system may provide the only long-term sustainable solution to the problem.
Claims of whitewashing have been levelled against an Australian university for encouraging students to use particular language about Indigenous peoples. It was the right thing to do.
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull at the COAG meeting with state and territory premiers and treasurers.
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Giving states the power to levy income tax won’t make up for the shortfall in health and education funding and it could mean poorer states are worse off.
After a three-week debacle, the findings of the review into the Safe Schools Coalition program are out. Here’s what academic experts make of the review.
Half of lifetime mental illness starts by the age of 14, so emotional well-being is important to have in schools.
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Sal Clark, Swinburne University of Technology e Carly Copolov, Swinburne University of Technology
A school set up by asylum seekers and refugees in the West Java town Cisarua, Indonesia, is a community-led initiative that Australian and Indonesian governments should model and support.
How do you do it then? British prime minister David Cameron visits a school in Singapore.
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Moralising commentaries about the Safe Schools Coalition are out of touch with social research about gender and the realities of the ways that young people understand their own sexual and gender identities.
South Africa’s Jacob Zuma is president of the country as well as the African National Congress. He is under pressure on all fronts.
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It is unlikely President Zuma will announce a structural changes in his State of the Nation Address. This, despite education being in dire need of fundamental restructuring and an economy in decline.
Much is expected of South African President Jacob Zuma when he delivers his 2016 State of the Nation Address.
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The general loss of faith in the economy is the most important issue President Zuma must address. More radical social and economic transformation, with emphasis on land reform will be most critical.
Creating that buzz.
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