Online learning was thrown into chaos on Monday morning, with technology giant Zoom suffering a widespread outage. Reports to outage website Down Detector spiked from almost zero on Sunday evening to almost 1200 by 9am on Monday. The outage caused ...
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‘The future will be dire’: NSW Teachers Federation President Angelo Gavrielatos speaks to Education Review
The emergence of the COVID-19 Delta variant has brought the pandemic back to our front door and thrown the lives of many Australians into chaos. This has been exemplified by the education sector, with both teachers and students, particularly in ...
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A new study by researchers from Europe and the United States has found that where kids sit in a classroom matters. In a field study in Hungarian primary schools, a total of 3,000 students were randomly transferred to almost 200 ...
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When it comes to the benefits of an all-girls education – and there are many – there is one that I believe sits firmly above the rest, and that’s the confidence that all girls’ schools instill in their students. From ...
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The devastating impacts of the pandemic have not only altered our lives, but they have also forced many Australians to re-evaluate the security of their current jobs, their long-term viability, and even the sense of purpose they provide us. In ...
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A former senior teacher at one of Sydney’s most elite private schools has avoided jail for sending sexual messages to who he thought was a 13-year-old girl. Alexander David Simpson, who taught at boys’ school Trinity Grammar in the city’s inner west, ...
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Education Review recently spoke with Eduinfluencers founder and expert in school leadership and cultural change, Rochelle Borton. We discussed some of the key challenges in the school sector at the moment, and what can be done to ensure the entire ...
More »‘Dangerous, unsafe and unwise’: Positive cases at schools in NSW central coast, Lake Macquarie regions, unions want face-to-face learning return scrapped
The Bondi COVID-19 cluster crippling greater Sydney is threatening to bleed out into the regions of NSW, as two schools in the north of the state shut after positive cases among students. The ongoing lockdown and growing daily cases is ...
More »Australians could get Covid jab at schools, sports stadiums, supermarkets and shopping centres in new Vax blitz
Australians could receive their Covid-19 jab at schools, sports stadiums, supermarkets or shopping centres as part of a nationwide blitz to get everyone vaccinated by the end of the year. National Covid vaccine task force co-ordinator Lieutenant General John Frewen ...
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Short active breaks during class have been shown to improve a child's brain function and aid learning. New research dismisses the notion that children need to be sat down all day to learn effectively, and short bursts of activity help ...
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