Nature Research, the publishing group behind the prestigious scientific journal Nature, has launched a website to make complex science accessible to the general public. The npj Science of Learning Community website was launched in collaboration with the University of Queensland. It aims to make ...
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After high school, Nisha Pradhan wanted to be a hairdresser. Her male high school careers adviser thought that “was a great idea”. But when Pradhan, now a University of New South Wales fourth-year electrical engineering and commerce student, told her ...
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This week on a jam-packed Episode 11 of Talking Eds, the team from Early Learning Review, Education Review and Campus Review unpack the STEAMy new Sesame Street initiative, dissect the US college sports scholarship system and discuss solutions to this ...
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An expert has warned of a discipline war among the STEM subjects, with engineering coming out on the bottom. STEM is the oft-used acronym for science, technology, engineering and mathematics, the focus of politicians and educators who are trying to lift ...
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For science educators Jeremy von Einem, of Sydney’s Barker College, and Rob Marr, of John Paul College near Brisbane, the rare opportunity to escort their students on a trip to NASA facilities in the US was too good to pass up. ...
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High school kids attending Kawana Waters State College and Montessori International College at Forest Glen, both on the Sunshine Coast, have been chasing a different type of buzz, learning how to trap, capture and identify mosquitoes, all under the entomological ...
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The retraining of public school teachers to become knowledge experts in mathematics and science will be critical in addressing a present and forecasted supply deficit in NSW for those subjects, the NSW Department of Education has outlined in a report. ...
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“That’s one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.” It was with those immortal words that American astronaut Neil Armstrong, representing the entire human race, etched his name into the history books, having conquered what was then ...
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Gracing our currency’s $50 note is an iconic figure from the early 20th century who became known as the ‘Australian Leonardo da Vinci’. History knows him as David Unaipon, a Ngarrindjeri man. He was an Indigenous polymath who gained a reputation ...
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