Education
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IQ tests can’t measure it, but ‘cognitive flexibility’ is key to learning and creativity
In fact, many people have an endless fascination with the IQ scores of famous people. Authors The Conversation But the…
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We don’t need CRT, but we need to think critically about race
UNTIL VERY RECENTLY, the vast majority of Australians, on both the Left and Right, had never heard of Critical Race…
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Growing up with trees: new books use story and science to connect kids with nature
But it really means I spend a lot of time thinking and finding out about people’s relationships with the natural…
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Time to gender parity has blown out to 135 years. Here’s what women can do to close the gap
The 2020 Global Gender Gap Report from the World Economic Forum (WEF) revealed Australia came in at 44th in the…
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Universities shouldn’t wait for Marise Payne’s axe to fall on China-funded institutes
Some even tweaked their contracts with the Chinese government to avoid having to register on technicalities. Salvatore Babones The Sydney…
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To understand racism, kids must empathise with its impact — and teachers must embrace discomfort
Indigenous people like Adam Goodes and Latrell Mitchell have spoken of the hurt they feel when they’re subject to racist…
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Australia would be a better nation if its children learned more than one language: Ken Wyatt
The Hasluck MP also told a crowd of linguistics lovers and Liberal Party members in Fremantle last month that political…
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Rise of the cycologists
BERLIN — Germany is making way for cyclists — not just on its streets, but in its universities. Antonia Zimmermann…
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Never insulted Erdogan? You’re eligible to stay in a Turkish student dormitory
Under the amendment, students who have been convicted for a prison term of more than six months — or for…
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After losing their son, these parents are backing a water safety campaign that reaches migrant communities
At 15 years old, Riing Doar was school captain and wanted to one day be a scientist. Biwa Kwan &…
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1 in 4 unemployed Australians has a degree.
A series of government policy reforms over recent decades aimed to increase the proportion of Australian workers with university degrees.…
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Politicians need expert help to change culture of sexual violence and impunity. We don’t need yet another review to tell us that
University campus culture was similarly in the spotlight following the release of damning reports in 2017. Andrea Durbach The Conversation…
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After a year of digital learning and virtual teaching, let’s hear it for the joy of real books
More surprising, perhaps, is the impact these lockdowns have had on children’s and young people’s self-reported enjoyment of books and…
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Australia’s education system must move away from its colonial world view
Nothing is more important for the future of society than our jarjums (children). Nathan Towney for IndigenousX The Guardian Their…
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Academics used to have privileges not enjoyed by the majority of the workforce: job security, flexible hours, access to great…
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Book review: Open Minds explores how academic freedom and the public university are at risk
Yet the concept is rarely examined or critiqued in detail. Peter Tregear The Conversation That has not stopped it becoming…
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