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In part two of this series, experts discuss reports of students struggling and teachers being physically attacked in the aftermath of school closures during the pandemic.
The government’s COVID policy for schools needs to shift from insisting on attendance to supporting the well-being of children, staff and families wherever they are.
With decreasing teacher degree completion rates and low teacher retention, Australia was already facing a growing teacher shortage before the pandemic. But it’s about to get much worse.
Professor Edward Holmes of the University of Sydney has scooped the top award at last night’s Prime Minister’s Prizes for Science, for his prompt efforts to understand the coronavirus genome.
A new study in the United States found school reopening in late 2020 was associated with an increase in COVID-19 cases and deaths. But this was mostly the case where masks weren’t required.
America’s schoolchildren spent less time in the classroom last year than ever before in modern history. Now teachers are scrambling to fill in the gaps.
Many of the countries that have seen the longest pauses in classroom education were among those least equipped to transition to remote learning. Students are facing dire consequences, teachers say.
Teacher read to class without a mask despite Covid symptoms and infected 26 people at California elementary school
Ask any parent, teacher or student about home schooling and chances are they'll tell you it's really difficult. With many regions plunging in and out of remote learning, where is that protracted experience leaving our students?
Australia's universities are cutting back on Asia specific programs in the wake of the pandemic, threatening the nation's ability to understand, engage and do business with the region, experts say.
Regional universities across Australia have experienced a 40 per cent drop overall in international students, while the country’s more prestigious university’s saw a drop of only 1 per cent.
Victorian universities slashed staff last year in anticipation of long-term decline in international student revenue, with insecure workers taking the worst hit.
Start-ups hope there’s no turning back for online learning, even as more students return to the classroom.
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The government’s COVID policy for schools needs to shift from insisting on attendance to supporting the well-being of children, staff and families wherever they are.
We investigated the initiatives schools around the world took to help support and maintain the well-being of their students and staff. We pulled out seven things that made a difference.
Post-lockdown parental anxieties have led some to predict a boom in private tutoring, but experts say that risks stressing kids and widening the gap between rich and poor
Our study shows almost one in four university and vocational education students report extremely high levels of distress during the pandemic.
Chrissy teaches one-on-one music lessons at three Victorian state schools and wants her role deemed "essential" like other teaching positions so she can return to onsite work.
Kauriland teachers create a funny lockdown video to connect with children during lockdown.
A new report estimates almost 40 thousand university jobs, or one fifth of the sector, have been lost in the 12 months until May.
Many universities overseas have already made vaccination a condition of being allowed on campus. There are precedents for this policy, which is based on strong public health and economic grounds.
The head of Victoria’s fourth-biggest university has flagged making COVID-19 vaccinations mandatory for students and staff, arguing people who avoid getting vaccinated are making a choice “that is at best ill advised and potentially verging on the negligent”. Deakin University vice-chancellor Iain Martin raised the prospect of introducing mandatory vaccinations for students and staff from the start of the first semester in 2022.
Some children have found a devious method to get out of school – using cola to create false positive Covid tests. How does it work?
Exhausted educators are looking forward to summer and thinking about what they’ve learned.
Around 33,000 child marriages took place in 2020 in Indonesia, a new report shows. This comes with more girls in Australia's region dropping out of school and taking on more caring responsibilities.
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