Women may be better-educated but they're not being paid more. The latest gender equality scorecard from the Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA) has revealed that, on average, men earn over $26,000 more than women annually. This represents a wage gap of 22.4 per cent. ...
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The constant changes in technology can be overwhelming for schools. While the increasing adoption of online learning is transforming education, it’s also opening the door for sophisticated security threats, as well as a rise in cyber bullying, radicalisation and child ...
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What do our three most recent male Prime Ministers - Malcolm Turnbull, Tony Abbott and Kevin Rudd - have in common? Certainly not much of their politics. They all did, however, at one point or another, attend single-sex schools: Sydney ...
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Along with a relatively small number of countries such as New Zealand, Singapore and Finland and Scotland, Australia is unusual in that, as well as a focus on knowledge and skills, its national curriculum explicitly requires schools to teach certain ...
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It's the fatal phenomenon with silent symptoms. Now, there's a clue that might help detect suicidal tendencies. A large, longitudinal Swedish study found that those who performed poorly at school were five times more likely to kill themselves later in life, and ...
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I am an agnostic left-leaning history academic and a high school teacher committed to the defence of human rights and, in the era of alternative facts, truth and civility. I had always assumed that most humanities teachers in this country, ...
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Imagine the impact on prep teachers if all children starting school could confidently approach tasks, demonstrate an early understanding of literacy and numeracy concepts, focus for extended periods of time, hold a pencil correctly, socialise well with others and follow ...
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Geordie Brown sat his last HSC exam on Friday. Last night, he faced a different, albeit similarly daunting ordeal: the QandA studio. The teen from Tamworth's Oxley High School was one of four high school panellists on the ABC program's ...
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'Australia’s foremost cyber safety expert' Susan McLean has some news: the average age at which an Australian child first views pornography is now eight. Disturbing? Yes. Truthful? No. The statistic is "definitely not" supported by research, an academic expert in the ...
More »Stopping revenge porn can start in primary school #esafety17
When #esafety17 tops Jarryd Hayne as most trending Twitter topic in Australia, you know it must be important. “I’ve never been to a conference like this before, but its such an important issue,” a cyber security analyst confirmed. “I’ve never ...
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