The findings of this research should be useful to consider by those affected by an acquired brain injury, including the person, their family, friends, and health practitioners. Plus, this brain-based neuroscience multimovement therapy study should also be useful for consideration ...
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With Reconciliation Week upon us, the University of Notre Dame has highlighted how education helps to make reconciliation “more of an action” and “not a word”. “Words don’t mean much unless they are followed up by serious commitment and actions ...
More »Poor PISA results indicate a lack of ‘respect’ in Australian classrooms
A UNSW academic has pointed to classroom disruption and disrespect as key causes of Australia’s poor Programme for International Assessment (PISA) results this year. Associate Professor Jihyun Lee from the school of education said PISA measures the disciplinary or disruptive ...
More »More male teachers are needed, but not for reasons you might think
It's commonly known that teaching is a feminised profession, particularly in the primary years. In fact, a University of Tasmania study found that male teachers accounted for a mere 18 per cent of primary school teachers, down from 30 per cent in ...
More »The smart school bag that could curb forgotten homework
“I did it, but…” Teachers hear this phrase a lot when asking students to hand in their homework, but perhaps it’ll be said a little less thanks to a new Deakin University project. Engineers designed a smart school bag that ...
More »Education sector to see oversupply of jobs, starting to ‘get some teeth’
Population growth and workforce turnover will see an education sector with too many jobs and not enough graduates. That’s according to Griffith University’s Professor Donna Pendergast, speaking on the back of research that revealed the fields of education most at ...
More »MOOC shows promise to improve dementia knowledge globally
A massive open online course (MOOC) promises to improve understanding of dementia on a global scale. In a paper published last month in Science of Learning, a partner journal of Nature, a research team from the University of Tasmania assessed ...
More »Award-winning teacher’s equation for success
Dr Kevin Larkin can no longer claim to be an ordinary teacher. The Senior Lecturer (Mathematics Education) at Griffith University has just scooped the title of 2018 Australian University Teacher of the Year. As one of the 13 winners at the Australian ...
More »Education, law and more: first set of THE rankings by subject released
Times Higher Education (THE) has released the first set of subject rankings for 2019. Stanford University, the University of Oxford and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) topped the World University Rankings 2019 by subject for business and economics, education, law and social ...
More »What Scott Morrison doesn’t get about most of the voting public
When now-Prime Minster Scott Morrison brought a lump of coal into parliament in 2017, pleading "don’t be afraid, don’t be scared, it won’t hurt you," he made a critical error. That is, assuming he wants the Coalition to retain power at ...
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