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needed for the future and how schools can teach them. Darragh O Keeffe reports. It used to be reading, writing and arithmetic were the skills needed to successfully finish school and get you into the workplace. But according to an ...

For Brendan Nicholson and Pi Lee, the sky’s the limit. The two NSW students have been given a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity – a trip to the International Space and Rocket Center in Alabama, USA. They will be accompanying Tyril Houghton, a ...

It began with a rusty lawnmower and 15 students, but now Ben Princehorn’s program to encourage young people to volunteer by performing backyard makeovers for disadvantaged families boasts a waiting list of students keen to help. Princehorn, a legal studies ...

Almost a quarter of a million young Australians choose vocational education and training (VET) as part of their pathway to school completion. However, despite good policy intentions and well established recognition of VET in Schools (VETiS) within our senior secondary ...

In the early 1970s across the two major contributors of educational direction, the US and the UK, there were two significant and influential bodies of work that became the shapers of provision for students with special educational needs. In the ...

Schools regularly create artificial barriers that prevent potentially capable students of completing rigorous upper school courses. These include requirements for A grades in certain subjects at year 10, in order to take a particular subject in years 11 and 12. ...

The furore following the recent announcement that the Jenny Craig chief executive, Amy Smith, would address a gathering of hundreds of girls’ school teachers has once again brought the uncomfortable issue of corporate presence in schools to light. The public ...

A competition for schoolchildren in years 4-12 that rewards the creative application of computer technology has been extended to NSW schools after running for two years in Queensland. Software giant SAP, hopes to extend its Young ICT Explorers (YICTE) competition ...

When psychiatrists, psychologists and other clinicians discuss the use and overuse of computer-based technologies by school children and young people, it is tempting to assume that there is a near-exclusive focus on the negative, pathological and undesirable aspects of this ...

School children across Australia can now connect and learn with their peers in developing countries thanks to a new global education program. ChildFund Australia recently launched the ChildFund Connect, a pioneering program developed by the non-government organisation to tap into ...