Outside school hours care (OSHC) provides an invaluable service to parents in the community, allowing more flexibility in being able to juggle their professional and family lives. However, research shows that 31-79 per cent of OSHC sessions are sedentary, giving ...
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School fee warning: experts unpack private income in Australia
Private funding initiatives have the potential to create – or further cement – a multi-tiered education system based on parental capacity and inclination to pay. Senior lecturer at Queensland University of Technology Anna Hogan raised this concern on the back of ...
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A new Centre for Independent Studies report based on the Western Australian Government’s Kimberley Schools Project focuses on the challenges educators face in teaching Indigenous students in remote areas, and the strategies teachers and school communities can implement to raise ...
More »Petition calls on council to remove polka dots on streets
A Melbourne council’s bid to improve road safety by painting massive polka dots on streets is instead dangerously luring children out onto the road, locals say. More than 390 people have signed a petition to have the colourful polka dots ...
More »Victorian public schools to introduce mandatory sexual consent classes
Victorian students will be taught sexual consent as part of mandatory curriculum to be introduced in public schools. State government Employment Minister Jaala Pulford on Sunday said teaching students about consent was an important step and something young people were telling ...
More »2021 Commonwealth Bank Teaching Awards winners announced
A former doctor with a commitment to social justice through education and a leading teacher with a commitment to student voice were among twelve of Australia’s most inspiring teachers and school leaders recognised for their dedication to students and communities ...
More »Students to have their say in schoolyard design competition
Canberra school students are being asked to have their say on the green spaces they would like to see in the future – particularly in schools. Gweneth Leigh, a landscape architect and PhD candidate at the University of Canberra, set ...
More »Queensland man charged after school lockdown
A Gold Coast man who allegedly sparked a school lockdown on Tuesday before making a chilling threat to police online has been charged with a string of domestic violence offences. Mark Lutgenau was arrested at Nerang, on the northern Gold Coast, ...
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EducationReview · Dr Seuss: Sensible decision or cancel culture? podcast The Dr Seuss Foundation's decision earlier this month to cease publishing six books in the collection has been applauded by many but also derided by others, who see this ...
More »Curriculum review? Teacher education review? Balancing the equation correctly – opinion
The school year has commenced and already there has been a flood of media coverage related to mathematics. The most interesting and important information relates to the pending release of the mathematics curriculum review as announced by ACARA in 2020. ...
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