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The preliminary findings of a Deakin University study suggest that the key to fighting Islamophobia is teaching people about Islam. The early findings of the Muslims and Islamic Religiosity in the West research project also included the fact that 57 per cent ...

A suite of well-publicised maiden speeches was just delivered in federal Parliament. Now, our nation’s politicians will sit through another round – this time from high-schoolers. The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Tony Smith, has called on secondary school students ...

University course prerequisites are one remedy to the decline in Year 12 students taking harder maths subjects, a representative from the Australian Mathematical Sciences Institute has said. AMSI has released data showing that the number of Year 12 students taking on higher-level ...

In 2014, a Victorian Catholic school attracted more than double the Commonwealth funding of a comparable Catholic school in New South Wales. In the same year, one independent school in the ACT received 64 per cent more Commonwealth funding per student ...

An evaluation of 108 interventions aimed at keeping young people out of jail has found that only 13 target the multiple factors that lead to teens getting into trouble. The remainder target only individual risk factors, such as alcohol and ...

Earlier this month, the 15th anniversary of 9/11 was commemorated. With the coverage came its macabre imagery. The iconic picture of the falling man, in particular, was re-branded into our collective psyche. For those reluctant to click on the link, ...

A University of Sydney child protection and family law expert claimed he's debunked “academically irresponsible” assertions about sexual identity and LGBTI students made by the Safe Schools Coalition. Professor Patrick Parkinson has published a non-peer reviewed paper criticising the Safe Schools Coalition, on the ...

A United Nations-backed coalition of world leaders, Nobel laureates and international business figures has called for a massive expansion of formal education in poor nations, so as to prevent unrest. The Learning Generation: Investing in education for a changing world, ...

It seems the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development can’t decide whether or not class sizes matter in schooling. In its Education At A Glance 2016 report, the OECD stated “at the level of students within a classroom, the relationship ...

The CSIRO has partnered with educational software company Stile, which was set up by Dr Alan Finkel before he became Chief Scientist of Australia, to improve science teaching in schools. Double Helix Lessons from CSIRO is a package of digital ...