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27 septembre 2018

Viewpoints: should universities raise the ATAR required for entrance into teaching degrees?

The effectiveness of ATAR as an entrance criteria has been heavily debated for some time. Some say to improve teacher quality, we need to raise the entrance criteria. Others argue ATAR doesn’t tell us all we need to know about a person’s suitability for teaching. Plus...

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27 septembre 2018

Why education about gender and sexuality does belong in the classroom

There is currently no consistent standard of sex, sexuality, gender and respectful relationships education across Australian schools. Each state and territory makes decisions about what they teach in schools. Additionally, religious schools have exemptions under anti-discrimination laws to decide how they approach these issues, and whether they include them at all. Plus...

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27 septembre 2018

Australian tertiary education funding is not as low as it seems in OECD metrics

In Paris each year, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) publishes its Education at a Glance report. And each year, local reporting highlights our incredibly low public spending on tertiary education. Plus...

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26 septembre 2018

Meet me at the bar! How uni students interact on a campus, and why chocolate can help

A university is not only a place where people go to study. It’s also where people go to meet others, to forge new friendships and networks that can last a lifetime.
But our research, published online in Computers in Human Behavior, found that students don’t always mix outside their area of study or cultural cliques. Plus...

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26 septembre 2018

What LGBTQI+ parents want from their children’s schools

While the number of LGBTQI+ parented families in the UK is increasing, schools are not always sure how to react when such a family enters their community. School policies tend to focus on LGBTQI+ students, and to be concerned mainly with preventing and responding to bullying. Yet our research suggests that while LGBTQI+ parents and their children value such protection, they want more from schools. Plus...

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26 septembre 2018

How parents could revolutionize education and boost results

Repeated efforts to improve public school education across Canada — curricular enhancements, increased accountability, intensified literacy and numeracy initiatives — are failing to improve student achievement. Plus...

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26 septembre 2018

Does being smart and successful lower your chances of getting married?

Having a committed partner and good family relationships are important to most people. Countless novels, fairy tales and movies have told romantic stories about love that endear us to the idea of romantic love. Plus...

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26 septembre 2018

Rise of executive coaching: how leadership ideologies drive anxiety in academia

It is no secret that academics are becoming increasingly anxious in their work. My colleagues and I have written about the Performance Based Research Fund (PBRF) here in New Zealand recently, drawing attention to the way it exacerbates anxieties. Plus...

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26 septembre 2018

Gender quotas and targets would speed up progress on gender equity in academia

While Australia has had gender equality legislation for 30 years, there has been very slow progress towards addressing the gender equity issues plaguing the sector. To illustrate, women are still under-represented at senior levels. Only 27% of full professors (the main recruitment pool for top jobs) are women, and only 32% of Vice-Chancellors in public universities. Plus...

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26 septembre 2018

Can you tell fact from fiction in the news? Most students can’t

The Digital News Report: Australia 2018 shows while Australians’ trust in the media has risen overall, when it comes to online news, 65% of Australians are still concerned about what’s real and what isn’t. Plus...

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