EducationReview · Will 2020 help or hinder Year 12 students? Professor John Hattie - Podcast 2020 has been a challenging and disruptive year for everyone with the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, but one group that is often thought about ...
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This will be the generation to watch – they will redefine what we mean by resilience and grit: Opinion
It seems almost a cliché to describe these times as extraordinary, yet they are, and there is no better word to describe this moment. The question that keeps me up at night, the question that informs every part of my ...
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Students and teachers need more support from schools and policymakers to cope with traumatic events. The call, from University of Melbourne researchers, is contained within a new report which held the twin economic and health crisis – the catastrophic bushfires ...
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A recent study by Dr Lesley-Anne Ey of UniSA and Professor Marilyn Campbell of the Queensland University of Technology revealed that only a fraction of parents can accurately describe what bullying is. As part of the study titled ‘Do Parents ...
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Closer to burnout. Stressed. Anxious. The work never stops. These were some of the ways teachers described working during the COVID-19 pandemic in a new survey. A team of Australian and international researchers asked teachers and educators 16 open-ended questions ...
More »Sexual harassment in high school is not just a girl’s issue: new research
A recent study involving more than 4,000 participants found that both male and female students are likely to experience some form of sexual harassment in NSW high schools, and that male students are more likely to experience six of the ...
More »Teachers and parents, here’s how we survive a third term of ‘coviducation’: Opinion
Yep, I’m coining it. Because if there’s one thing parents and teachers can be certain of at this stage, it’s that ‘education’ as we know it has gone well and truly out the window. The second wave of COVID-19 has ...
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Prime Minister Scott Morrison and Indigenous leaders have announced 16 new Closing the Gap targets. The new agreement has the support of Australia's local, territory, state and federal government leaders. It's the first time the agreement has been developed with ...
More »Inquiry told no modelling done to see if uni fee hike would influence student choices
A parliamentary inquiry has heard that no modelling was conducted to see if the plan to increase fees for humanities and arts-related degrees would influence students to take other courses in so-called in-demand fields. The Education Department’s deputy secretary ...
More »Vic principals are ‘losing their minds’ amid calls to send all students back home
There are calls for all Victorian students to return to online learning at home following the closure of 80 schools in the state after COVID-19 cases were detected. Although schools in Melbourne and the Mitchell shire remain open for VCE ...
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