A Melbourne council’s bid to improve road safety by painting massive polka dots on streets is instead dangerously luring children out onto the road, locals say. More than 390 people have signed a petition to have the colourful polka dots ...
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Mobile phone bans in public schools have been rolled out across several states in the last two years – but what does the evidence say about the move? In a 2015 paper co-authored by Louis-Philippe Beland, an assistant professor of ...
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Victorian students will be taught sexual consent as part of mandatory curriculum to be introduced in public schools. State government Employment Minister Jaala Pulford on Sunday said teaching students about consent was an important step and something young people were telling ...
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Canberra school students are being asked to have their say on the green spaces they would like to see in the future – particularly in schools. Gweneth Leigh, a landscape architect and PhD candidate at the University of Canberra, set ...
More »Queensland man charged after school lockdown
A Gold Coast man who allegedly sparked a school lockdown on Tuesday before making a chilling threat to police online has been charged with a string of domestic violence offences. Mark Lutgenau was arrested at Nerang, on the northern Gold Coast, ...
More »Red flag emails, violence and overtime: how principals fared in 2020
Three in 10 school leaders received a "red flag email" – triggered when school leaders are at risk of self-harm, occupational health problems or serious impacts to quality of life – in 2020 alerting them to contact employee support services, ...
More »Premier backs students’ school uniform push
The NSW Premier has thrown her weight behind a push to allow students at a private school in Sydney’s west to wear pants. Girls at Croydon’s Presbyterian Ladies’ College have started a petition requesting a change of the uniform to make it ...
More »Teach Us Consent ‘tipping point’: petition prompts governments to act
An online petition that calls for more robust and earlier education about consent in Australian schools has amassed over 30,000 signatures as state governments react to a growing number of accounts of sexual assault on school grounds. The petition, started ...
More »Basics to brilliance, part 4: the ‘greatest coach’ and a Honolulu reading program
“This was great coaching?” they asked themselves incredulously. Even after coming to terms with this doubt and initial negative emotive and social ambivalence about Wooden, and his coaching methods, Gallimore and Tharp decided to keep on attending Wooden’s training sessions in ...
More »UK opens schools, PM asks students to take COVID-19 tests at home
The UK government has given schools the green light to invite students back into physical classrooms, but they will be expected to test for COVID-19 every week at home. In a statement released over the weekend, Downing Street said many ...
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