The days of Dollarmites will soon be over in Victoria as the government moves to ban banks from delivering programs in public schools. From the first day of school next year, banking programs for kids will be replaced with new resources aimed at ...
More »Forceâs school letter tribute to fallen cop
School students across an entire Victorian country council will receive letters from their local police officers each week as part of a touching tribute to fallen Leading Senior Constable Dennis Cox. Cox, 47, tragically died earlier this month when he was ...
More »Kids who lie: How schools are raising young people addicted to avoiding blame
Practice makes perfect, or so they tell us. And so, it astounds and troubles me to my core that we continue to raise kids in homes and schools where the art of lying is something thatâs practiced so heavily that our ...
More »No link between birth type and final year test scores: study
Children born via caesarean section perform just as well at school as those who are vaginally birthed. Previously, research suggested C-section babies often had different microbes in their gut, which may influence their academic performance. But new research by academics in New ...
More »A tailored approach to rural and remote school leadersâ professional development
Working with remote and rural leaders has become an absolute joy for the Eduinfluencers team. The beauty and sometimes harshness of the locations is definitely part of it, but even more so we are spurred on by what we hear ...
More »Key steps to increase security in the education sector
With educational institutions now heavily reliant on information technology to deliver services for students, keeping core systems and data stores secure has never been more important. The challenge has been amplified during the COVID-19 pandemic as delivery of many education ...
More »Cops to swarm unofficial schoolies week
Schoolies may be officially cancelled this year because of coronavirus but police are taking no chances with hundreds of officers set to swarm the Gold Coast this weekend. Queenslandâs Year 12 students officially finish on Friday and even though there ...
More »Students using Responsibility Theory and their âpowerhouseâ to maximise learning and wellbeing
A Responsibility TheoryÂź (RT) classroom uses optimal evidence-based teaching and learning strategies (see Purje, 2014, 2019). The teaching and learning experiences created ensure that the classroom environment is safe, secure, academically challenging, socially supportive and where all students are actively ...
More »NSW state budget: scholarship funds for Indigenous students
A scholarship program for Indigenous students in NSW will get a cash injection worth $8 million in the upcoming state budget. The new funds for boarding school and tertiary studies scholarship programs run by the Australian Indigenous Education Foundation (AIEF) will be ...
More »Budget to add 100 nurses to NSW schools
As the NSW government looks to hand down its 2020-21Â budget, treasurer Dominic Perrottet has given people a taste of things to come in his pre-budget announcements on Sunday. The budget will be squarely aimed at post-COVID-19 recovery, stimulating the economy ...
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