Did you know that Australia now boasts one of the lowest teen drinking rates in the developed world? Prior to 1999, however, the opposite was true. A key reason for the radical, relatively abrupt shift? According to a Deakin University study ...
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New vertical school will open for first term
Melbourne’s first vertical public school is almost complete and will open in time for the start of Term 1. The new South Melbourne Primary School will cater for more than 500 students from Prep to Year 6, and was the ...
More »HP launches $500,000 Kids Fund grant program
Did you know? 65 per cent of students will be employed in jobs that are not yet created? The Australian Bureau of Statistics reported that STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering & Math) skilled jobs grew at about 1.5 times the rate of ...
More »Recycled goods create school playground
Queensland’s Park Lake State School will soon be the owner of the first Australian playground made entirely from recycled beauty products. Students won the $45,000 playground by participating in the national Garnier Recycled Playground Competition, which saw schools around the ...
More »Minecraft teaches children engineering skills
Letting your children play video games these summer holidays may actually be a good idea – it could even point them towards a career in engineering. Games such as Minecraft have found their way into classrooms, and experts say their value ...
More »Public schools dominate HSC First in Course list
NSW public school’s have dominated this year’s HSC First in Course list, with 73 of 114 courses topped by public school students. Sydney Boys High School was the most successful public school on the list, earning eight First in Course ...
More »How to improve learning outcomes for multilingual children
It’s essential to test children for speech and language disorders, but applying monolingual tests to multilingual children only leads to poor diagnoses and damaged learning outcomes, experts say. The comments were made by linguistics scholar Dr Madalena Cruz-Ferreira, who this ...
More »Sound advice: Classroom acoustics linked to student success
How poor classroom acoustics are linked to lower skill levels in students. If you feel you’re struggling to maintain discipline and cooperation, and your students’ motivation and engagement levels are lacking, it may have something to do with the way ...
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How technology will connect educators and students, and usher in a new age of smart schools. Schools are becoming increasingly technology rich. Many provide connected devices for students or have programs that enable students to bring their own devices (BYOD). ...
More »Measuring success: How can we help our teachers help themselves?
The Teaching Teams trial promises teacher education students and their supervisors a new approach to self-reflection and assessment. With the current push for new teachers who are ‘classroom ready’, it’s no wonder our teacher education students, teachers and schools are ...
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