Children with same-sex parents outperform their peers on national standardised tests, a new study has shown. Researchers from the Universities of Melbourne and Queensland looked at data from Dutch population registers and found that the advantage amounted to 13 per ...
More »Arts and humanities course preferences strong in NSW, VIC despite government’s fee hike
Demand for arts and humanities courses remains strong in Australia’s two most populous states, despite the fee hikes introduced last year to steer students towards more ‘job-ready’ degrees in nursing, education, science and maths. Despite fee hikes of more than 113 ...
More »Crane falls over onto school in Adelaide
Shocking pictures have captured the moment a crane tipped over on to an Adelaide Hills high school. Emergency services were called to Heathfield High School on Thursday morning after the large vehicle fell. Working on a part of the school under construction, the crane tipped ...
More »Basics to brilliance: part 1
When children are at play, what are they doing? They are constantly testing themselves, testing others, they are competing and they are developing. When sport is taking place, what is the process? Sport is about tests and competition. When the ...
More »Important lessons from a pandemic in shaping the schools of the future
I am hoping that COVID brings about significant and, more importantly, relevant change to school curriculums, structures and operations. It's high time to scrap the Higher School Certificate (HSC) and explore other options for assessing student achievement. We can't keep ...
More »Parents hesitant to pass on language, accent to kids: survey
“Instead of helping her develop the language, all primary teachers assessed her language in comparison with the monolinguals and demanded to cut the other languages ‘to improve’ the school language.” That was one parent’s account of the way their daughter’s ...
More »Should school-provided lunches be on the menu?
Australian researchers believe uniform delivery of lunchtime food at school could be a recipe for better childhood nutrition and learning. Nutrition and dietetics researcher at Flinders University Professor Rebecca Golley said the model would involve all children in school being ...
More »Macquarie Dictionary names ‘fake news’ its word of the decade
It was used as a weapon against media by former US President Donald Trump and it’s “here to stay” – fake news was voted word of the decade. A team from Macquarie University asked Australians to choose from a shortlist ...
More »Dead on arrival: law scholar’s take on ‘weird and nasty’ school bill
Legislation introduced to NSW Parliament by One Nation’s Mark Latham would be “knocked out of operation” by the federal constitution if it was to pass, an expert says. Associate Professor Luke Beck, a constitutional law scholar based at Monash University, ...
More »Viral image of meteorite landing turns out to be school project
Images of a so-called meteorite crash landing on the grounds of a Queensland school have gone viral. The Australia crash investigation unit Facebook page shared the photos with the hashtag #meteorite on Monday morning. The post caused such a stir it was ...
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