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I can hardly bear to watch free-to-air television any more. Everything has been reduced to a competition. Cooking, dancing, singing, surviving – even living in a house. The whole world has been divided into winners and losers, and this will ...

As educators, we know that we face the persistent problem of engaging adolescent students. We are aware that there is a link between the middle years and poor school retention in later years. And we are concerned that where you ...

Early high school leavers are up to 20 per cent less likely to report being in good health in later life than those with a tertiary education. Early school leavers are also statistically more likely to smoke, drink alcohol at ...

Criticisms and concerns have plagued the release of a new report suggesting religious schools produce students with more liberal and tolerant social attitudes and higher rates of civic participation. ‘The Rise of Religious Schools in Australia’, a new paper by ...

The idea of taking people straight from school, training them at university and then putting them back into school, is not the best model for teacher education. People need broader life experience and perspective, as well as deeper learning. For ...

Over the last decade Australia has witnessed one of the largest increases in starting salaries for graduate teachers compared with its international colleagues. However, Australia’s flat salary scale could compromise its ability to retain its teaching workforce in the long ...

The evidence used to justify the NT government’s dismantling of bilingual education in remote schools is based on “incomplete, selective and biased data” and must be reviewed immediately, a bilingual education expert has said. Based on his analysis of My ...

Racial tensions in the community are spilling over into schools with new research showing 80 per cent of migrant students report experiencing racism. Intercultural and racial tensions are generating unsettling levels of verbal and physical abuse in Australian high schools, ...

Students who experience ongoing failure in upper-primary and lower-secondary school face a myriad of difficulties in pursuing post-school options and contributing to society through employment and aware citizenship. Those who exhibit consistent weaknesses in basic skills, such as the recall ...

Schools are literally surrounded by a sea of information and data-sets; class lists, NAPLAN results, university competition results, counsellor reports, retention rates and the like. Properly analysed it can help identify which students are doing well, which students might be ...