Tackling extremism, building happier adults and delivering a generation that can adapt to rapid change. Putting thinking and thinkers at the heart of the curriculum should be an easy decision.
Changing attitudes: why is it ‘cool’ to be bad at maths?
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People seeking asylum and refugees on temporary visas should have access to education funding and loan schemes so they can improve their skills, gain qualifications and contribute to Australia.
The affordability of college has been at the forefront of the presidential campaign, but the real problem is that we’re too educated for the jobs available.
Graduation at Fudan University in Shanghai. Education is an important instrument in building China’s global status.
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In China, education is more than a means to deliver high skilled labour. The country has constructed its education policy to demonstrate its ambition to become a global power.
Should Humanism be a core part of the syllabus?
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Young, experimental arts practitioners are exploring new ways to think about cultural leadership. But if we see leadership as a form of action rather than a role, how should we teach it?
Children living closest to the mines had the lowest literacy and numeracy scores.
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Children in mining and smelting towns who are exposed high levels of lead, arsenic and cadmium are more than twice as likely to have developmental disorders than the national average.
Saving Syria’s future: plans and funding are being drawn up to educate Syrian refugees.
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