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Schoolboyâs PC energy-saving invention gets a world stage
CeBIT Australia, an annual congregation bring together the brightest business and technology minds to share their ideas, took place in…
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UC enters STEM education research partnership with Samsung
Electronics giant Samsung and the University of Canberra have entered into a research partnership to find out how spatial reasoning…
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Few schools properly teach advanced maths: AMSI
Less than 7 per cent of schools in Australia are âfully able to give kids the best education in mathsâ…
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Opinion: early-childhood instruction needed to improve TIMSS rankings
The release of the Trends in International Maths and Science Study international rankings for Year 4 and Year 8 has produced a…
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Birmingham to use TIMSS report to spruik reform
Federal education minister Simon Birmingham plans to use Australia's poor performance in the recent Trends In International Mathematics and Science Study…
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In The Classroom
Half of Aussies will need hard tech and soft skills by 2030: report
A report commissioned by the National Broadband Network (nbn) and the Regional Australia Institute has argued half of Australians will…
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Mathspace expands into primary schools and US
Mathspace, an Australian educational technology startup that provides software, has announced a two-pronged expansion into local primary schools and the…
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Apple’s new app helps teachers learn coding, swiftly
By 2018, teachers across the country will be required to teach the latest subject craze â coding â as the…
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Many country students aren’t taught maths by maths teachers: AMSI
Only one-third of Year 7â10 students are being taught maths by a qualified maths teacher, the Australian Mathematical Sciences Institute…
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Science teaching can be done cheaply, educator says
You donât need fancy labs to teach science in school, an educator has argued, just go down to the supermarket…
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