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Some schools are changing classrooms to more open-plan environments hoping to facilitate collaborative learning, but new research shows this makes it harder to hear the teacher. A recent survey led by Kiri Mealings, a PhD candidate at Macquarie University, looked ...

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Teacher-parent communication fosters better collaboration between school and home contributing positively to a child’s academic success, an expert explains. Dr Denise Chapman, a lecturer at Monash University, specialising in early childhood education, literacy, and digital technologies spoke to education editor ...

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New South Wales’ $14 million funding commitment to non-native English speakers in public schools is the best the state has seen in years, literacy expert Misty Adoniou said. Adoniou, senior lecturer of Language, Literacy and TESL at the University of ...

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Schools and universities need to work together to help break down stereotypes in the portrayal of engineers and encourage more girls to enter the profession, a leading expert argues. Alex Bannigan, the manager of women in engineering at the University ...

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Using tablets to track learning in the early years of schooling can improve data management and is a fun and engaging way to assess the educational progress of students, a leading researcher says. Maurice Walker, a principal research fellow in ...