Less than a quarter of Australian children and young people are meeting the national physical activity guidelines for their age group, sparking health concerns among professionals. Gathered for the 2022 Report Card on Physical Activity for Children and Young People ...
More »Alternative pathways expert offers top tips on how schools can prepare Year 12s for their results
An education expert who has worked with scores of first year students who have been devastated with their Year 12 results has provided some helpful advice on how schools can support their students when the scores come in. Dr Lucinda ...
More »ACARA’s digital technologies program to upskill and support teachers, students proves to be beneficial and timely
A four-year program aimed at supporting the teaching of digital technologies has also improved many Australian teachers’ ability to quickly switch to online learning during the COVID-19 pandemic when school closures were an ongoing occurrence. Thousands of educators took part ...
More »Making the right moves: how playing chess can make students less risk averse and better prepared for life
While the worldwide smash Netflix series The Queen’s Gambit is about a whole lot more than chess, viewers like myself were drawn into the amount of strategic risk-taking, foresight, planning and dedication required for the protagonist to overcome the formidable ...
More »Australia ‘below OECD average’ in public education funding as inequity gap widens
The latest Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) report highlights that Australia’s public spending on education is shrouded by private investment and is below the OECD average. Dr Emma Rowe, an expert in school funding and education policy at ...
More »Parents and teachers’ perceptions of schooling during the COVID-19 pandemic: Podcast
EducationReview · Parents and teachers perceptions of schooling during the COVID-19 pandemic: Podcast Dr Adam Fraser is a peak performance expert and director of research company E-LAB. Recently Fraser collaborated with Deakin University to explore parents' perceptions of teachers during ...
More »Parental contributions fuelling growing divide in NSW public high schools
Public schools of both low and high socioeconomic status (SES) are being privatised “from within” by parental contributions that fuel inequality, a new study has found. In their study entitled ‘Inequalities in the private funding of public schools: parent financial ...
More »Ruddock review branded ‘a smokescreen for discrimination’ as gay students, staff remain at risk
With the release of the Ruddock review on Thursday, gay students have become the latest political football. Despite the long-awaited review finding little evidence of religious discrimination in Australia, and Ruddock himself stating that "freedom of religion gives you certainly protection ...
More »At an OECD glance, we’re an education mélange
The title of the 'Australia' section of the OECD's latest annual, education-centric report could be 'nevertheless'. This is because most negatives seemed to be counterbalanced with positives. For example, Education at a Glance 2018 revealed that while our university fees are relatively high, ...
More »The dangers of ‘high-rise’ parenting
J.G. Ballard's 1975 novel High-Rise painted a nightmarish vision of the future. A microcosm of class warfare, residents of a tower turn on each other. As the social order decays, violence ensues. While real life high rises are more serene, they encapsulate hidden ...
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