A high number of Australian teens with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) are struggling academically. A study conducted by the Murdoch Childrens Research Institute showed an "alarming" 40 per cent of teenage students with ADHD failed to meet the literacy ...
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Billion dollar babies: the cost of not finishing school
The following does not contain typos: disengaged 24-year-olds cost taxpayers $69 billion over a lifetime. This is one of the major findings of the Mitchell Institute’s new report, Counting the costs of lost opportunity in Australian education. The Institute, based ...
More »Islamic school gets the final funding chop
It seems all their non-legal avenues are exhausted. Adelaide-based Islamic College of South Australia will not receive further funding, an internal review of a government decision has confirmed. Education minister Simon Birmingham said the internal review's decision, which upheld that ...
More »WA government dumps controversial Perth school plan
The WA government has bowed to public pressure and dumped plans to move Perth's only academically selective school to a high-rise city building in favour of constructing another secondary school to ease enrolment demands. Under the plan announced during the ...
More »Minecraft goes to school
The world of Minecraft is not flat, nor round. It’s square. Even the cupcakes at the computer game’s promotional stand at EduTECH were square. But, despite their unusual shape, the baked goods weren’t the focus. Rather, teachers’ eyes were glued ...
More »EduTECH: how to cultivate tomorrow’s leaders
Lee Watanabe Crockett strode onto the EduTECH stage to a track filled with electronic bleeps and loops. Wearing a Steve Jobs-like all black outfit and black-rimmed glasses, he looked and acted the part of a digital change maker. As president ...
More »Education specificity and security pervade Brother’s new office solutions
Brother has released a new range of printers and multifunction devices targeted at the education sector. “Brother is committed to be 'at your side' today, tomorrow, and for many more years to come," Brother Australia marketing specialist Stefanie Dixon. "The ...
More »Search on to find Victoria’s best educators and school professionals
There is still time for Victoria's best educators to be nominated for the 2017 Victorian Education Excellence Awards (VEEA). These are the apical awards for school professionals. There are gongs for the best principals, teachers and business managers, across both individual ...
More »Canberra Grammar students augment reality
Schoolkids may be eagerly awaiting the release of Pokémon GO’s new Fire and Ice event but students at Canberra Grammar School are already toying with augmented reality. Unlike Pokémon GO, however, Pearson’s HoloLens is educational and doesn’t require a mobile ...
More »Simplify processes, reduce headaches
Ivan Seselj is the founder and CEO of Promapp, a business improvement and process management online tool used by a wide variety of public and private companies, and government organisations, to simply their most important operations. "Promapp was designed in ...
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