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Last year, instead of driving to work I started travelling by bus. No matter what time of day it was, there was one common denominator: almost every passenger is absorbed in their mobile phones. This is an age of miraculous ...

Can you guess how many people have died during school outdoor education experiences in Australia between 1960 and 2002? At 128, it might be more than you imagined. Yet the number of deaths – shocking as it is – isn’t the most sobering detail ...

Until Parkland survivor turned activist Emma González has her way, statistically, there will likely be more school shootings in the US. This means schools need to consider how to prevent, or at least mitigate them. While extreme strategies like arming teachers have ...

Having grown up the child of two high-achieving professionals and possessing the requisite academics, I commenced a law degree after school. Like the 99 per cent, I wasn’t to know that the GFC would hit in 2008 – two years later. ...

What do Japan and Korea have that Australia doesn’t? Well, obviously a multitude of things – not limited to an obsession with skincare and higher quality convenience store sushi. More importantly, however, these countries mandate that teachers change schools regularly. This ensures ...

Around the country, Term Four is approaching. Ask any teacher if this period is stressful, and they’ll likely resoundingly reply “yes”. So, if media reports, including ours (and more suspect examples), as well as journal articles are to be believed, 20 to 50 ...

Want a cognitively optimal child? Canadian researchers have found a winning formula: one hour of exercise + minimal recreational screen time + plenty of sleep. While the finding may be intuitive, their study of 4.500 American nine and 10-year-olds provides evidence for it. Using ...

When principal of Templestowe College, Peter Hutton, was at school, like many of us, he was told that one day the esoteric-seeming knowledge he gained would be useful. “That hasn’t happened yet,” Hutton quipped at a recent event. Perhaps this would have been ...

“It seems like everywhere we look … there’s so much debate about education at the moment.” Dr Sunil Badami is right: there’s controversy over school funding, teacher standards and preparing students for the future, to name a few areas. The Future ...

Sector politics has long plagued school funding. But with the federal government’s announcement of an extra $4.571 billion for independent schools, partisan outrage has peaked. There’s even intra-party vexation. (Liberal) NSW Education Minster Rob Stokes told ABC Radio Sydney that it’s “not fair” ...