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Almost half of teaching graduates leave the workforce within five years of entering it. The push factors are complex, often context-specific and interlocking. But understanding and addressing some of the major reasons behind teacher attrition is vital to high-quality education, governments, ...

The vice-chancellor of Auckland University in New Zealand has declined to take down white supremacist material from campus, citing free speech. As first reported in the university’s student magazine Craccum, Professor Stuart McCutcheon has described the material as “unfortunate”, but ...

The anxiety-soaked issue of US student loans has been in the spotlight recently. Earlier this year, in a stunning act of altruism, US billionaire Robert Smith eliminated the debt of a 2019 graduating class. In March, Democratic runner Bernie Sanders ...

Equal access to post-school pathways has been a focus of the government, perennially concerned about developing a robust future workforce to carry the nation forward. A more subtle aspect of this idea of equal access is equal aspiration. How attractive ...

A secondary school graduate steps out into the world today, and is confronted with an overwhelming array of choice. It’s not a simple fork in the road anymore, but a multitude of criss-crossing trails. Many will find themselves on pathways ...

The research in learning and teaching shows clearly that didactic teaching and passive reception do not result in deep, lasting or meaningful learning for most students. Yet we persist with lecturing at students in large groups in most universities. Worse, ...

Friday, 9am. Then five past the hour. The clock crept on. Still, the students had not arrived. Beginning to wonder if he was in the wrong lecture theatre, the professor called the subject coordinator. Nope, he was in the right ...

A Seventh-day Adventist higher education provider in Lake Macquarie, NSW, has become Australia’s first “university college”. Founded over a century ago, Avondale College of Higher Education had its new category status approved late last month by the federal government’s Tertiary Education ...

How do you make a toad’s genome exciting? How do you convince researchers to increase their media footprint? And how – the eternal question – do you inspire people to send more dollars your way? These are the predicaments that the ...

If you’re an Australian man, you’re better placed than any other male group in the world to reach a ripe old age. This is according to new research by ANU. Pulling data from 15 countries with high-life expectancies across Europe, ...