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21 avril 2019

New partnerships are needed to arrest economic malaise in South Africa

The minister’s statements were well calculated, measured, and responsible in the current climate. The additional increase in National Student Aid Financial Scheme funds should go quite some way towards improving access to post-school education. More...

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21 avril 2019

Chance of heart attack is more than double for those with no educational qualifications

The research, published in the International Journal for Equity in Health, found those with no education qualifications had more than double the rates of heart attack (150%) relative to those with a university degree. More...

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21 avril 2019

Expansion is no longer the answer to improving the Australian education system

For 50 years, Australia’s policymakers have been persuaded that growth at every level of the education system would be a good thing in itself – and would drive economic growth and social progress. More...

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21 avril 2019

Keeping girls at school may reduce teenage pregnancy and STIs – but sex education doesn’t

Worldwide, more than 65m adolescent girls have no access to school. And it’s not just poorer countries that suffer from bad education. In the UK, one in five young people don’t complete post-16 education, making it one of the worst performing countries in league tables measuring how well young people are educated. More...

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21 avril 2019

Raimond Gaita on Donald Trump’s America: a cloud cuckoo land devoid of fact, evidence and argument

Many people in America and elsewhere are scared of what Donald Trump will do. As I write, some are in the street protesting that he is not “their president”. Type “What did Trump say?” into Google and it will be obvious why. More...

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21 avril 2019

Business Briefing: breaking down the 457 visa myths

Labor and the Coalition government are suggesting changes to the 457 visa workers scheme to ensure these workers aren’t taking jobs that would otherwise be filled by Australians. More...

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21 avril 2019

It’s time to reduce the number of PhD students, or rethink how doctoral programs work

There are not enough academic jobs vacant in Australia each year to employ all our PhD graduates. More...

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21 avril 2019

A burning question: why are Kenyan students setting fire to their schools?

Over the past few years, students have set fire to hundreds of secondary schools across Kenya. The tally includes more than 120 cases in 2016 alone. Why students are setting fire to their schools has been the topic of repeated investigations by police, education officials, government inquiries and journalists. More...

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21 avril 2019

Why pushing undocumented children out of schools won’t help bring down net migration

Leaked cabinet papers seen by the BBC suggest that back when she was home secretary, Theresa May wanted schools to carry out immigration checks and withdraw school places offered to children of parents unlawfully in the UK. More...

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21 avril 2019

PISA results: four reasons why East Asia continues to top the leaderboard

The results speak for themselves. The latest Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) and the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) have been released – and, once again, East Asian countries have ranked the highest in both tests. More...

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