Sex education is an awkward conversation that more teens want to have in school, research has identified. The Deakin University and University of South Australia researchers behind It’s not all about sex: Young people’s views about sexuality and relationship education surveyed ...
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Policy, research on wellbeing neglect middle years: report
Educational research and policy has ignored students in their middle years and this neglect is increasing marginalisation, a new report has argued. The final report of the Australian Child Wellbeing Project (ACWP) – a collaboration between the Australian Council for ...
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Inbound marketing’s potential impact
Education is big business. It’s Australia’s fourth-largest export earner and employs 8 per cent of the workforce. And the rise of the digital economy is pushing things along. Last year, Open Universities Australia celebrated 1 million enrolments, with 36 per ...
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Many students and their parents have been primed to believe that completing the Higher School Certificate and obtaining the ATAR for university course entry will lead to success; however this is not always the case. Attrition rates at Australian universities ...
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Safe Schools Coalition welcomes government review
Safe Schools Coalition Australia said it was not fazed by the announcement that it would be the subject of a government investigation and welcomed it as a chance to “demonstrate the positive impact of this important program and provide the ...
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