One of my most memorable school moments took place in a library. I was 17 and sleeping on the grey, carpeted floor between the back stacks, as I tended to do when I had a free period, when I was awoken ...
More »Later, ATAR? Exploring a rising qualification competitor
Today's school students likely don't have any living relatives who survived World War Two. If they're undertaking the International Baccalaureate (IB), however, they may do well to know its postwar origins. In 1948, Marie-Thérèse Maurette, a French educator, was stationed in ...
More »Expert skewers ‘suspect’ school costs report
A Monash University expert has refuted research that suggests school costs have dramatically risen. Dr David Zyngier, a senior education lecturer, says the numbers in the Planning for Education Index 2018 by education scholarship plan provider Australian Scholarship Group (ASG), "may or may not ...
More »Why you should spend the night on your next school excursion
Take the stress out of planning an educational trip by staying in safe, clean and affordable accommodation tailored to groups with YHA Australia. You’ve collected the permission slips, loaded the lunches onto the bus, seated the students, done a head ...
More »Teen drinking drop due to parents
Did you know that Australia now boasts one of the lowest teen drinking rates in the developed world? Prior to 1999, however, the opposite was true. A key reason for the radical, relatively abrupt shift? According to a Deakin University study ...
More »Opinion: Why the Safe Schools program was doomed to fail
While parents, educators and policy makers fought over the politics and practices of the Safe Schools program, few assessed whether the program was educationally sound for the NSW Education system - that is, suitable for use in educational settings that ...
More »Technology in education: a forecast for 2018
Digital transformation and the rise of millennials are dominating headlines in the Asia Pacific region (APAC). Rapid advancements in technology are drastically improving the way we do things. As millennials come of age, modern students will be adept with technology, ...
More »HP launches $500,000 Kids Fund grant program
Did you know? 65 per cent of students will be employed in jobs that are not yet created? The Australian Bureau of Statistics reported that STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering & Math) skilled jobs grew at about 1.5 times the rate of ...
More »For gender inclusivity, let students disagree
We've all likely heard the statistics: gay, bisexual, intersex or transgender people comprise only up to 11 per cent of the Australian population, yet they are three times as likely to experience depression. One survey found almost 1 in 2 ...
More »Opinion: NAPLAN’s questionable origins
When NAPLAN was launched in 2008, its aim was to boost student achievement through the annual administration of standardised tests. But the scheme's performance remains unimpressive, as the 2017 NAPLAN results have shown. Yet again, student scores in literacy and numeracy flatlined, as ...
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