University course prerequisites are one remedy to the decline in Year 12 students taking harder maths subjects, a representative from the Australian Mathematical Sciences Institute has said. AMSI has released data showing that the number of Year 12 students taking on higher-level ...
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Birmingham vows to fix ‘corrupted’ Gonski model
In 2014, a Victorian Catholic school attracted more than double the Commonwealth funding of a comparable Catholic school in New South Wales. In the same year, one independent school in the ACT received 64 per cent more Commonwealth funding per student ...
More »Local anti-jail programs lack scientific rigor: study
An evaluation of 108 interventions aimed at keeping young people out of jail has found that only 13 target the multiple factors that lead to teens getting into trouble. The remainder target only individual risk factors, such as alcohol and ...
More »Mind the media violence: how on-screen brutality can affect kids
Earlier this month, the 15th anniversary of 9/11 was commemorated. With the coverage came its macabre imagery. The iconic picture of the falling man, in particular, was re-branded into our collective psyche. For those reluctant to click on the link, ...
More »USYD professor says he’s debunked Safe Schools Coalition
A University of Sydney child protection and family law expert claimed he's debunked “academically irresponsible” assertions about sexual identity and LGBTI students made by the Safe Schools Coalition. Professor Patrick Parkinson has published a non-peer reviewed paper criticising the Safe Schools Coalition, on the ...
More »Lack of education in poor nations will spread unrest: report
A United Nations-backed coalition of world leaders, Nobel laureates and international business figures has called for a massive expansion of formal education in poor nations, so as to prevent unrest. The Learning Generation: Investing in education for a changing world, ...
More »‘Talking Eds’, episode 14: intensive parenting, crowdsourcing cures, inmates running the SCA asylum
In this week's episode of Talking Eds, the team behind Campus Review, Education Review and Early Learning Review dive deep into why intensive parenting is making mums and dads miserable, investigate the crowdsourcing phenomenon shaking up Big Pharma and revel in ...
More »OECD can’t decide if class sizes matter
It seems the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development can’t decide whether or not class sizes matter in schooling. In its Education At A Glance 2016 report, the OECD stated “at the level of students within a classroom, the relationship ...
More »CSIRO, Stile partner for digital science lessons in primary schools
The CSIRO has partnered with educational software company Stile, which was set up by Dr Alan Finkel before he became Chief Scientist of Australia, to improve science teaching in schools. Double Helix Lessons from CSIRO is a package of digital ...
More »What can teachers claim on their tax?
For any teachers yet to lodge their tax returns, the media face of tax accountancy firm H&R Block and former Australian Taxation Office senior director Mark Chapman has offered his top tax tips. Chapman explained when teachers work from home ...
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