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How the geek effect and a sexist games industry is putting girls off a career in computing.
If education and tolerance go hand in hand, how is it possible that anti-immigrant sentiments are so virulent in educated populations?
Because educating young people about mental health and well-being is no simple task
The role of private tuition plays a part in the overall success of students in Singapore, with around 80% of primary-school children having at least three hours of private tuition a week.
In the UK, the length of teacher training has not changed significantly in over 30 years, and yet the demands on teachers have increased massively.
East Asian pupils continue to outpace their counterparts in Western schools.
No Theresa May, “deprioritising” school places for children isn’t the right way to go about reducing immigration figures.
The questions young people tend to ask about maths often relate to their personal experience of how they found maths in school.
White middle-class parents get an easy time of it when it comes to parental involvement.
Being able to sound out letters in words doesn’t mean you can understand them. There is no clear evidence that a new phonics screening test for children in Year 1 will help improve reading levels.
The current education system lends itself to heightened stress levels among staff – and the empowerment of bullies.
Like so many other countries, the UK is experiencing a shortage of primary school teachers - especially one’s of the male variety.
Educational genomics could mean tailor-made curriculum programmes can be created based on a pupil’s DNA profile.
We need to educate children about how to behave responsibly online.
With the refugee crisis, Brexit, and the rise of populist extremism, we must defend the teaching of anthropology. And in doing so, we might expand and rethink ideas of “the humanities”.
Dyslexic? There’s an app for that.
The lack of suicide training provided in nursing programmes can leave nurses feeling like there is a risk of further harm to the patient.
The reintroduction of grammar schools means that once again schools and headteachers will be required to make sense of contradictory national policies.
Some teachers are often dismissive in their handling of sexual abuse, labelling it as ‘a bit of fun’ or repeating the old adage ‘it’s because he likes you’.
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Associate Professor in Language, Literacy and TESL, University of Canberra
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Scientia Professor and Professor of Educational Psychology, UNSW Sydney
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Sue Roffey is a Friend of The Conversation.
Honorary Associate Professor, Department of Clinical, Educational and Health Psychology, UCL
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Assistant Professor, Faculty of Education, Wilfrid Laurier University
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Professor of Development Economics, Monash University
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Professor of Education, Sheffield Hallam University
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Professor, School of Education, University of Southern Queensland
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Professor and Director of the Centre for Inclusive Education, Queensland University of Technology
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Professor, Faculty of Education and Arts, Australian Catholic University
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Professor, Medical Research Future Fund Emerging Leader, University of South Australia
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Professor in Psychology, University of Essex
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Lecturer, School of Education, Edith Cowan University
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Lecturer in EFL (English as a Foreign Language), University of Central Lancashire
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Professor of Health Sciences, University of South Australia
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Senior Lecturer in Science Education, Sussex School of Education and Social Work, University of Sussex
