Strathcona Baptist Girls Grammar is one of several schools taking part in an Australian-first program designed to ignite students’ passion for of science, technology, engineering, art and mathematics (STEAM) from an early age through play. The new program, run by ...
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Australia should scrap the current census approach of NAPLAN and replace it with sample testing of students, the Council of Australian Governments (COAG) has been told. In its submission to COAG's review of NAPLAN, the Gonski Institute for Education at ...
More »The effects of administrative overload: a deeper dive
New South Wales teachers are being swamped in paperwork relating to administration and accountability, leaving them overwhelmed and unable to effectively nurture relationships with students. The Understanding Work in School report, based on a study undertaken by the University of ...
More »Driver sets school bus on fire in Italy
A bus full of schoolchildren has been hijacked and set on fire by its own driver in an apparent protest against migrant drownings in the Mediterranean. All 51 children managed to escape unhurt before the bus was engulfed in flames ...
More »Tool predicts future of specific jobs, automation
Is a robot coming for your job? That’s the question a new tool asks. It calculates a person’s exposure to automation and other sources of change in a job and predicts future developments. “Experts predict 50 per cent of all ...
More »Postcode pitfalls: plans to see how a student’s neighbourhood affects school performance
Do students who live near factory pollution have more trouble learning than those in cleaner neighbourhoods? Will they be less likely to attend class if they have to pass through a rough area on their way there? These are some of ...
More »School lunch unboxed: Monash exhibits the humblest of objects
Lunchboxes have recently been unpacked. Last month, the ABC published an investigation of their contents in wealthier and poorer Melbourne suburbs. While, by comparing Oreos packed in Broadmeadows to carrot sticks lovingly placed in Brighton, it invited food-shaming, a new Monash ...
More »Almost half of teaching students feel unprepared for labour market: survey
Few education students expect to have a job immediately after graduating and they’re less likely than those from other disciplines to feel that their course provided them with the skills they need. That’s according to a student survey conducted by ...
More »Growing number of principals subjected to physical violence: survey
Principals are working long hours, increasingly at risk of violence and being buried under excessive admin. That’s according to the latest Australian Principal Occupational Health, Safety and Wellbeing survey, which highlighted the stressors taking a toll on principals' wellbeing. The ...
More »Tap to feel better: de-stressing methods under the microscope
Should you tap your way to feeling less stressed? Or is plain old 'switching off' the better option? That’s what Bond University researchers hope to confirm as part of a new study into psychological interventions for stress. Research lead Associate ...
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