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22 avril 2019

Teaching the untold stories of World War I

It’s time to recover some of the harder stories of the First World War and redress an imbalance of remembrance. It is time we expand the ambit of commemoration and adapt the way we tell the history of the Great War to old and new audiences. More...

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22 avril 2019

Novice teachers have less desire to stay in schools due to weak administrative climate

Nearly a third of teachers are willing to leave schools or switch careers in their first two years because of poor relationships with principals. More...

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22 avril 2019

A low target: enrolling poor uni students remains a challenge

Essentially, those universities under the 20% target would have to “buy” students (virtually speaking) from those above it. More...

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22 avril 2019

Online learning glitch: MOOC flaws will be hard to resolve

Superficial opinion abounds, and nobody ever got famous for suggesting things were pretty much going to stay the same, but although the online education revolution will bring about fairly major changes in the way universities do things, they are not an existential threat. More...

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22 avril 2019

Outsourcing memory: the internet has changed how we remember

Times tables and chemical formulae were learned by rote and devoid of inferential and internal coherence. Information was divorced from praxis, with each claim nacreous and glib, like banal pearls. More...

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22 avril 2019

Back to the future: do we need a universities commission?

There’s been a push recently in university circles for a new body to help govern the sector and act as a buffer between the universities and government. More...

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22 avril 2019

Education in the information age: is technology making us stupid?

The pub argument is dead. Google killed it with a little help from your smartphone. Instead of long fought debates about who’s right and who’s wrong, an answer is nearly always within easy reach. More...

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22 avril 2019

Weird neuroscience: how education hijacked brain research

Neuroscience: the word oozes sophistication and intelligence – the very qualities we might want to nurture in our students, our children, our general populace. More...

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22 avril 2019

Learning for the western world? The Indigenous education dilemma

The history of Indigenous education provision throughout Australia’s remote areas is replete with instances of neglect, infrastructure shortfalls and systemic underfunding. Every Aboriginal child deserves the best education possible and this has patently not been the case in the past. More...

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22 avril 2019

Our obsession with ‘natural’ talent is harming students

Results released from a major Victorian study on student learning show high achieving children’s performance in tests is “flat-lining”. More...

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