Australia’s schooling system is world-class. That’s what one principal has relayed from a gathering of teachers and principals at Harvard University. Clayton Reedie, principal of Dalmeny Public School – in Sydney’s south-west – has recently returned from a trip to ...
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Samsung helps bring the arts to children with disabilities
Sound, sight and touch are how Samsung Australia hopes to get children with disabilities involved in arts education. The electronics giant is hosting Samsung Dance Discovery at the Sydney Opera House. This brings kids with disabilities, and their parents, to the ...
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While teaching the teachers of Nauru, associate professor Pep Serow has learnt one thing – Australian teachers could do far more with the resources they have. Serow, along with professor Neil Taylor, leads the University of New England’s Nauru Teacher Education Project, which ...
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After high school, Nisha Pradhan wanted to be a hairdresser. Her male high school careers adviser thought that “was a great idea”. But when Pradhan, now a University of New South Wales fourth-year electrical engineering and commerce student, told her ...
More »‘Talking Eds’, Episode 12: Childcare scams funding terrorism, #LetThemStay and old age myths
In a packed program this week, Loren from Early Learning Review talks about how childcare rorting might be funding terrorism, James from Education Review and Campus Review discusses the #LetThemStay movement among academics and Dallas Bastian from Aged Care Insite ...
More »Study examines cannabis treatments for children with epilepsy
Nearly one-third of people with epilepsy have forms resistant to current medication, leading some people to turn to medical cannabis, driven by hope that it will work, based on anecdotal evidence. Researchers at the University of Sydney’s Lambert Initiative, in partnership ...
More »Teens receive love advice from 90-somethings, via Skype
Where do high school students go for dating advice? Probably not their grandparents. Though this may change for some Year 9 students at Sydney’s Davidson High School, after 91-year-old Barrie advised them over Skype to “be bold” when it comes ...
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Who is more qualified to tackle climate change, politicians or high school students? The answer may depend on the elected official in question. But the Australian National University's Ian Chambers, a senior researcher at the Crawford School of Public Policy, ...
More »Stress making male teachers flee classroom: researchers
New research suggests that males' tendency to internalise stress could explain the chronic shortage of men in the classroom. A survey of 55 male pre-service teachers and 255 female pre-service teachers found that the men had higher levels of stress ...
More »‘Talking Eds’, Episode 11: STEAMy on the Street, US college sports system and the sedentary century
This week on a jam-packed Episode 11 of Talking Eds, the team from Early Learning Review, Education Review and Campus Review unpack the STEAMy new Sesame Street initiative, dissect the US college sports scholarship system and discuss solutions to this ...
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