Education
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‘The workload was intense’: what parents told us about remote learning
Many parents in Melbourne and some in regional Victoria will still be doing for some of term four. Authors The…
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Governing universities: tertiary experience no longer required
The sudden loss of international student fees due to the COVID-19 pandemic and recent court rulings of wage theft by…
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‘One voice’: PM Scott Morrison wants power to tear up foreign agreements
The federal government is citing “complex” national security concerns as it makes the case for its new Australia’s Foreign Relations (State…
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‘No one would even know if I had died in my room’: coronavirus leaves international students in dire straits
Our surveys of these students before and during the pandemic show it has made their already precarious situations much worse.…
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Videos won’t kill the uni lecture, but they will improve student learning and their marks
To do this, academics have been choosing between two approaches: live videoconferencing using tools such as Zoom, or pre-recording videos…
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When English becomes the global language of education we risk losing other – often better – ways of learning
“Hear more English, speak more English and become more successful” has become a self-fulfilling prophecy. Authors The Conversation Some say…
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Never too old: 96-year-old graduates from university with honours
“Don’t get lost because you find obstacles — because there will always be obstacles,” Paterno told reporters after he graduated…
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‘Exhausted beyond measure’: what teachers are saying about COVID-19 and the disruption to education
Prior to the state’s premier Daniel Andrews announcing a tightening of restrictions over the weekend, only students in prep to…
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How to Shield Education from Al-Shabaab in Kenya’s North East
The government’s response – to evacuate non-native tutors – has shuttered the area’s schools. ICG Nairobi should supply funds to…
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Canceling the Cancel Culture: Enriching Discourse or Dumbing it Down?
Depicting colleges as hotbeds of intolerance, Donald Trump threatened to remove their tax-exempt status if they don’t stop engaging in…
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New NGO to operate China’s Confucius Institutes, ‘disperse misinterpretation’
The move will better facilitate Chinese language teaching overseas and disperse the Western misinterpretation that the organization served as China’s…
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Dutch coalition parties call for formal apology for slave trade history
Two parties in the Dutch government — D66 and ChristenUnie — called on the government to make a formal apology for…
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If the government listened to business leaders, they would encourage humanities education, not pull funds from it
If the government wants to support university courses that lead to jobs, they’d do well to listen to their business…
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Fee cuts for nursing and teaching but big hikes for law and humanities in package expanding university places
Under the plan to produce “job-ready graduates”, to be outlined on Friday by Education Minister Dan Tehan, those opting for…
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9 tips teachers can use when talking about racism
Education is a powerful took for creating change. So, it’s important teachers don’t shy away from difficult conversations in the…
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Three-quarters of Australians biased against Indigenous Australians, study finds
Seventy-five per cent of Australians hold an implicit bias against Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, a study has found.…
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