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Asbestos dust and fragments left littered across a Sydney private girls' school have raised health concerns for students and local community members. Asbestos removal works were undertaken in an old swimming pool change room at St Catherine's School Sydney in ...

Maths teachers who love their work, are more likely to embrace struggle within the classroom, taking an inquiry-based approached to learning, without jumping in to solve problems for students. The link between teacher enjoyment and positive learning processes was discovered ...

Students at more than 250 government-run schools in the United Arab Emirates are officially done with homework. The National newspaper reports that the Education Ministry is abolishing homework in public schools in the emirates of Dubai and Abu Dhabi to ...

A private school principal is adamant a five-year-old Cook Island boy cannot have long hair, even if it is part of his culture. A Queensland family says they were told Cyrus Taniela had to abide by school rules and cut ...

Australian children should visit a library on a weekly basis and new schools built without traditional libraries could turn reading into an elitist art, Ursula Dubosarsky says. The author was announced as the new Australian Children's Laureate at the National ...

We all have to eat. This fact of life is non-negotiable and it applies to every living creature on earth. Just like every animal and plant, humans require certain survival skills, just like mammals who teach their babies which plants ...

With the recent release of VCE results, parents across Victoria have been eagerly hoping to find out what their children have achieved at school during the past two years. Isn’t it strange, then, that VCE results provide so little insight ...

https://youtu.be/V5RT9qAGWrw Workforce analytics tools have long been used in a number of industry sectors, but their use in the education system has generally been limited. Dr Vicki Cameron, chief education officer at PeopleBench, says while schools have made use of ...

Is it possible for a teacher to “feel” the motivation of a student? The kind and intensity of motivation? It depends on the empathetic skills of the teacher. Usually the responses of the student – cognitive, behavioural and emotional – ...

https://youtu.be/0QVzS0WNWkQ Bad leadership practices and resulting toxic work environments can develop in all employment sectors, and this has been the focus of much study, debate and more than a few popular books in recent times. Of course, the education environment ...