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Global teaching exchange program open to Australia in 2020
A US-based teacher exchange program is accepting applications for Australian and New Zealand teachers wishing to participate in a teacher…
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Weekly roundup 8: Group discipline, the end of print and teacher’s evil double life
Hi and welcome to another Education Review weekly roundup of the top news stories we covered this week. I’m Wade…
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eSafety Commissioner lukewarm on mobile phone ban
The Victorian Government’s decision to ban mobile phones during school hours in all state secondary and primary schools next year…
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Dairy education program enters 10th year
It’s time for other learning areas to mooo-ve over: Dairy Australia’s Picasso Cows program is inspiring primary-aged students to think…
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The LANTITE: Attracting the best or just eliminating the worse?
The quality of Australia’s trainee teachers is again under fire, with one in 10 failing the literacy and numeracy test…
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Game Over: Is ‘gaming disorder’ real?
While long suspected to be addictive, gaming that interferes with one’s daily life has now been designated as a “disorder”…
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Weekly roundup: ‘bad’ anti-bullying campaigns, drones in the classrooms and housing subsidy cuts
[This story was published on 24 May] Hi, I’m Wade Zaglas, education editor at Education Review. Welcome to our second…
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New podcast series questions the fairness of Australian schools
Education is often hailed as the ‘great equaliser’, but is it? Do schools eliminate inequality or help to reinforce it?…
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Skin a potential student stress detector
Human skin is a multi-tasker. Obviously it contains our internal organs, but it also wards off bacteria, moisture and the…
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Kicking and catching as important as spelling and sums: PE expert
A leading Australian physical education academic says “physical and sport literacy” are essential to children’s long-term health and wellbeing and…
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