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If education really is for all, more must be done to help people of all ages to access it.
Dreading math class as you head back into school? Never fear: Try these tips from famed mathematician George Pólya.
An insider’s view.
We need to revisit tuition fees. The health of Britain’s youth and the country’s future place in the world may well depend on it.
New data points to misplaced UK clampdown on ‘overstaying’ international students.
This year’s changes to GCSE grades means results cannot be compared with those of previous years.
Doctors are taught how to treat skin cancer – but not necessarily how to empathise with those who have it.
New research shows that young people and employers have different ideas about innovation and the future of work.
Is it time to ditch tuition fees?
Standardized test scores drive many of our decisions about students, teachers and school districts. But research shows that the results are highly predictable, in a bad way.
A rare find in an Exeter library helps explain why the local student vote switched from the Conservatives to Labour.
A number of universities around the world are providing free textbooks to first year university students as a way to increase retention rates.
As Catholicism teaches abstinence before marriage, there is a common perception that Catholic schools would be places without hookup culture. Does faith make a difference?
If we look at enrolment figures for public secondary schools, it’s untrue to say the steady drift towards private schools has been reversed.
If the government is to continue to spend millions toward sending Indigenous children away to boarding school, we need research into how effective this model is, and its impact on communities.
This is how to stop it.
Despite improvements to their content over time, secondary school history textbooks still imply that ‘real’ Australians are white.
Who comes up trumps in tertiary education?
The current system disproportionately limits opportunities for young people from low-income backgrounds.
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Associate Professor in Language, Literacy and TESL, University of Canberra
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Associate Professor, Melbourne Centre for the Study of Higher Education, The University of Melbourne
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Senior Research Fellow, Curtin University
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School Education Program Director, Grattan Institute
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Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice Sciences, Illinois State University
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Senior Lecturer, Murdoch University
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Professor, School of Education, University of Southern Queensland
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Honorary Senior Fellow, The University of Melbourne
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Researcher at ProtectED, University of Salford
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Scientia Professor and Professor of Educational Psychology, UNSW Sydney
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Research Affiliate, School of Social Sciences, Monash University
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Professor of science education, Deakin University
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CEO, Australian Council for Educational Research
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Professor of Education and Public Policy, Durham University
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Deputy Director, ARC Centre of Excellence in Cognition and its Disorders, Macquarie University
