The preliminary findings of a Deakin University study suggest that the key to fighting Islamophobia is teaching people about Islam. The early findings of the Muslims and Islamic Religiosity in the West research project also included the fact that 57 per cent ...
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RESPONDING TO ONLINE BEHAVIOURS WITH CONFIDENCE #ProtectED2016
Andree Wright, Acting e-Safety Commissioner discusses what cyber-bullying complaints received by her office tell us about the behaviours to which teachers need to be alerted. The knowledge the Office of the Children’s eSafety Commissioner has gleaned over 12 months will ...
More »My First Speech contest puts winners before Parliament
A suite of well-publicised maiden speeches was just delivered in federal Parliament. Now, our nation’s politicians will sit through another round – this time from high-schoolers. The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Tony Smith, has called on secondary school students ...
More »Tougher uni prerequisites could help arrest maths decline: AMSI
University course prerequisites are one remedy to the decline in Year 12 students taking harder maths subjects, a representative from the Australian Mathematical Sciences Institute has said. AMSI has released data showing that the number of Year 12 students taking on higher-level ...
More »YOUNG PEOPLE IN THE SOCIAL MEDIA AGE #ProtectED2016
Catharine Lumby, Professor of Media from Macquarie University, will be discussing what young people have to say about why they share explicit images with one another, what they think the risks are and what they want to know more about ...
More »Birmingham vows to fix ‘corrupted’ Gonski model
In 2014, a Victorian Catholic school attracted more than double the Commonwealth funding of a comparable Catholic school in New South Wales. In the same year, one independent school in the ACT received 64 per cent more Commonwealth funding per student ...
More »Local anti-jail programs lack scientific rigor: study
An evaluation of 108 interventions aimed at keeping young people out of jail has found that only 13 target the multiple factors that lead to teens getting into trouble. The remainder target only individual risk factors, such as alcohol and ...
More »Mind the media violence: how on-screen brutality can affect kids
Earlier this month, the 15th anniversary of 9/11 was commemorated. With the coverage came its macabre imagery. The iconic picture of the falling man, in particular, was re-branded into our collective psyche. For those reluctant to click on the link, ...
More »USYD professor says he’s debunked Safe Schools Coalition
A University of Sydney child protection and family law expert claimed he's debunked “academically irresponsible” assertions about sexual identity and LGBTI students made by the Safe Schools Coalition. Professor Patrick Parkinson has published a non-peer reviewed paper criticising the Safe Schools Coalition, on the ...
More »Lack of education in poor nations will spread unrest: report
A United Nations-backed coalition of world leaders, Nobel laureates and international business figures has called for a massive expansion of formal education in poor nations, so as to prevent unrest. The Learning Generation: Investing in education for a changing world, ...
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