86 document(s) in Education.
Facing up to a class divide
IN A shanty town of 60,000 impoverished people, the children must make do with a primary school that uses shipping containers as classrooms. Welcome to the Zandspruit settlement school near Johannesburg.
The Age 16/11/2009
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Over-cosseting is a Fawkes cracker all of its own
Children, children. How we love them. We stop them blowing their fingers off on an annual basis, only to shroud them in sexual hysteria and gorge them daily like so many Normandy geese until, for the first time in a century, their life expectancy starts to shrink, even as their girths expand. Is this, one asks oneself, a good deal?
Sydney Morning Herald 05/11/2009
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Students demand halt
STATE Arts Minister Lynne Kosky will this morning be handed a 17,000-strong petition by students from the Victorian College of the Arts and Music.
The Age 04/11/2009
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New approach to education needed
High Court Chief Justice Robert French has called for greater co-ordination of judicial education and the development of global education standards in areas of international jurisprudence.
The Financial Review 30/10/2009
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The power of computers
Associate Professor Lori Lockyer is an Associate Dean in the University of Wollongong's Faculty of Education. Her research work involves looking at how technology can be best used in education. She is particularly interested in the potential of online learning.
My research is in educational technology.
Illawarra Mercury 27/10/2009
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Sexual abuse, pregnancy and finally education
WHEN Jenna dropped out of school halfway through year 7, no one thought to question too deeply. She was just an unfortunate 13-year-old who became pregnant, and her stepfather assured the authorities she would be educated at home.
Sydney Morning Herald 26/10/2009
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US collaboration helps raise the bar on school standards
Australia has something to learn from the American approach to education reform, writes Dan Harrison.
Sydney Morning Herald 19/10/2009
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Religion plus ethics gives schools balance
Good education tries to produce whole people, writes Terry Lovat.
Newcastle Herald 19/10/2009
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Figures reveal education 'underbelly'
DOZENS of teachers who have committed sex crimes, drug offences, fraud and theft have been caught working in Victorian schools in the past year.
The Age 16/10/2009
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Rising hope for boost to research
A career in research begins not at university but at school and as early as the primary years, a government inquiry has found. By Geoff Maslen.
The Age 12/10/2009
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730 words
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