An education academic has argued that Adrian Piccoli “needed to go” from the NSW education portfolio, following newly minted premier Gladys Berejiklian’s cabinet reshuffle. Piccoli, a NSW Nationals MP, was replaced with Rob Stokes, who previously sat in the planning ...
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Kids catch cognition, confidence and coordination by catching a ball
Playball Australia is a sports-based school-readiness program that seeks to impart social skills, resilience, hand-eye coordination, concentration, confidence, life skills and cognitive skills, all via the magic of playing with balls! Tammy Ceppi is the Australian ballmaster, corralling the teams of ...
More »Swimming pool kiosks filled with junk food: study
Soon after the school year begins, it's time for the annual swimming carnival. But, as a new study from Deakin University has shown, all the calories burnt off by the kids in the pool are often quickly replaced by a ...
More »‘Autism epidemic’ driven by doctors diagnosing kids with mild symptoms
The so-called autism epidemic is being driven by doctors diagnosing more children with less severe symptoms, researchers say, not by more children being born with the condition. A study published in Autism Research, titled Evidence of a reduction over time ...
More »Youngest in class more likely to be medicated for ADHD
Researchers have found that the youngest children in classrooms are twice as likely to be diagnosed with ADHD as their older peers, raising concerns that kids are being medicated with amphetamine-based drugs for age-related immaturity. The study found that among ...
More »Talking Eds, episode 19: adopted babies recalling languages, international student destinations, non-completion rates and mentoring
In a bumper first episode of Talking Eds for 2017, the team behind Campus Review, Education Review and Early Learning Review look at how adopted babies are recalling language skills, epigenetic twin variations, international student destinations, non-completion rates at Australian universities ...
More »Add fun to maths and learning will multiply
Maths should be fun – that’s the message to teachers from one expert. Western Sydney University’s associate professor Catherine Attard, an expert in primary maths education, said fun is the best medicine for relieving maths boredom. “When children are actually ...
More »Printer security is bland but essential
Printing documents is such a quotidian part of life working in the education industry that one rarely considers it for more than a second. You receive an email you want to save for later meeting, an interesting piece of online ...
More »Communication between schools, parents key for managing type 1 diabetes
The Australian Bureau of Statistics estimated in 2014-15 that 158,000 Australians had type 1 diabetes. This is up from the same survey by the ABS in 2011-12, where 113,400 Australians were reported as having the condition. Furthermore, according to the ...
More »Private school costs skyrocket by 64 per cent
The parents of children born in 2017 may have to fork out $487,083 to put their child through K to 12 private schooling. This is the estimated national average bill for a private education by the latest iteration of the ...
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