Another school year is beginning.
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Attending early education and getting learning support from parents can really help get children ready to start school.
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But can they improve pupils’ behaviour?
Children need to learn how to sound out words they haven’t seen before.
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Many young children can give the false impression that they are learning to read, when in fact they are mostly guessing words from pictures or context. This test will help to identify these students.
New evidence-based methods of teaching and learning are being taken up very slowly.
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Despite significant reform agendas over the past decade, no real progress in outcomes has been achieved.
Fake degrees are bad news for universities and employers.
A flooded labour market is forcing more students to take up extracurricular activities in the hope of getting a job, but what does this mean for the TEF?
Gifted children can benefit from being grouped together in specialist schools or classes.
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Failing to provide an appropriate education for students who are gifted increases the risk of mental health issues, boredom, frustration, and behavioural problems.
There is often more than one factor at play when a student drops out of a university course.
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Lower completion rates for rural and remote universities are not necessarily a reflection on the quality of the educational experience they provide, but reflect the demographics of their students.
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Let’s stop putting students down, and instead work together with them.
Phonics helps teach children how to merge separate sounds together to make it one word.
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Phonics instruction gives children letter-sound knowledge, a skill that is essential for them to read unfamiliar words by themselves.
Wearing a skirt can prevent girls from participating in sports.
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Wearing a skirt at school can make girls less likely to participate in physical activity, and it’s time schools changed their uniform policies.
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Your personal statement is one of the most crucial elements of your UCAS application. Here’s the best way to go about writing it.
Going circular on education.
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Our schooling system needs a rethink.
The prescriptivist stranglehold on grammar isn’t just restrictive, it’s often just plain wrong.
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Were your teachers right about when to use commas, and about not starting sentences with ‘and’?
Is school the most important part of education?
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We take a closer look at some of the common claims made this year to see if there is any truth to them.
A year of high expectations, yet little action.
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Gonski funding was scrapped and the vocational education sector got a new student loan system. Here’s what else happened in education this year…
How can we use data from international tests to improve student learning?
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Various forms of testing that reduce students’ knowledge, capacities and skills to a single number cannot of themselves help inform improvement.
Spending on vocational education has declined.
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While spending has grown for preschools, schools and universities, vocational education misses out.
On average year 3 girls perform higher than boys in reading, writing, grammar and punctuation, and spelling.
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The latest round of NAPLAN results show Australia’s school systems are not good at reducing the influence of a student’s background on their academic achievement.
Constant reforms in maths education aren’t helping Australia to improve its performance.
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Policy continuity is what is needed to improve Australian students’ maths capability.