Education
Banning mobiles in schools to curb bullying a band-aid, not a cure

The South Australian Government has launched a ban on mobile phones in public high schools to curb ...  
Blurry new report sheds little light on contentious School Chaplaincy Program

A firm including a senior policy adviser to non-secular PM Scott Morrison has recently evaluated ...  
Equal education for women essential to solving poverty crisis

Former Finnish President Tarja Halonen insists good education and gender equality are crucial to ...  
Breaking the taboo side of porn

The stigma around pornography being a negative thing can be lifted if discussion about its posi ...  
Churches taking funding from public schools — it's abuse

Religious schools that once begged for limited monetary support now demand and receive a dispro ...  
More than cash cows: Overseas students key to migration program

Universities should encourage overseas students to do courses in health and education, and TAFEs ...  
Pacific Media Centre gutted in blow to journalism on the Pacific Islands

The launch of a New Zealand project to produce more Pacific news and provide a “voice for the ...  
A world without black and white

Bazza and Old Mate explore the mysteries: memory, colour and a world without black and white.  
Overseas student visas entering a new phase

Home Affairs is desperately trying to cope with a huge surge in overseas student visa applicati ...  
Children with Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder need more help

Because of ignorance, diagnosis and treatment of children with FASD are delayed — even though ...  
The religious school funding decision that flouted the Constitution

A 1981 High Court decision to allow the funding of religious schools was a bad move that fractured ...  
Industrial scale cheating taking over from learning in Australian universities

With technology allowing cheating to run rampant in universities, reform is needed to bring a ...  
Immigration to Australia still short of pre-pandemic levels

Since late 2021, both the former Coalition Government and the new Labor Government have been ...  
Higher education and the corporate mentality

Universities are too important to Australia's education system to be thought of as corporate ...  
Beggars in surplus: Australia’s university gangsters

Surpluses recorded by some of Australia's biggest universities have complicated their cases for ...  
Woodside's industrial-size attempt at reputation washing

Given the worsening climate crisis, there should be no place for fossil-fuel reputation washing by ...  
Education is the answer for society to flourish — and our survival

Without education, people would recommence burning witches at the stake.  
Universities losing the fight against academic cheating

Casual staffing and an inadequate grading scheme have seen a rise in the use of academic cheating ...  
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