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Thinking of accelerating a Year 12 subject? Here’s what to consider Jae Yup Jung, UNSW As term three rolls around, students in Years 9, 10 and 11 are starting to plan their subject pathways for their senior years. Some students may be considering acceleration in one or more Year 12 subjects. This means placing them [...]
Four ways to help your teen (and yourself) spend more time away from devices Danielle Einstein, Macquarie University Phones and devices have become inextricably linked with everyday life. They store our credit cards, provide critical bus updates, and allow us to communicate whenever we need to. But when our device use starts to affect our [...]
Kids do feel the cold. So why won’t they wear a jumper? Joshua Pate, University of Technology Sydney It happens just when you need to leave. Bags are packed. Shoes are on. Then your child decides a jumper is impossible. You say, “put your jumper on”. They say, “I’m not cold”. Do kids really not [...]
Kylie Message, Australian National University More than half of Australia’s universities dropped in global rankings this week. Individual results always bounce around. But this drop, via the Centre for World University Rankings, suggests the decline of Australia’s standing in many global rankings systems is more than a blip. Centre for World University Rankings [...]
Narendar Manohar, Black Dog Institute; Hiroko Fujimoto, Black Dog Institute, and Peter Baldwin, Swinburne University of Technology; UNSW Sydney Many Australian children struggle with their mental health. Recent data shows around one in seven children (13.9%) aged 4–17 experiences a diagnosable mental illness. So what can actually help? Our research shows the most [...]
Erin Harper, University of Sydney and Marianne Fenech, University of Sydney Governments have spent about a year announcing new policies to make early education safer for Australian children. In the wake of reports of shocking abuse and neglect in daycare centres, there have been moves to improve training and screening of educators, as [...]
Linda J. Graham, Queensland University of Technology and Callula Killingly, Queensland University of Technology New data shows 27.2% of Australian students are receiving an adjustment for disability at school. This is up from 25.7% in 2024 and 18% in 2015. An educational adjustment helps students participate on the same basis as their peers [...]
Fotini Vasilopoulos, University of Sydney Pretend play is a significant and often magical part of childhood. Children have huge imaginations and use these to turn rocks into spaceships, tables into forts or pens into fairies. They might pretend to be “mum” or to “cook dinner”. Or they may invent their own characters, worlds [...]
Brendon Hyndman, Charles Sturt University and Vaughan Cruickshank, University of Tasmania For Year 12 students, final exams are getting closer and applications for university and other courses are opening. So naturally, conversations at home and with wider family and friends are turning to what’s going to happen next year. Some young people will [...]
Books and brain development: why reading is much more than a pastime for children and teens Lucía B Palmero Jara, Universitat de València; Eva Mª Rosa Martínez, Universitat de València; Javier Roca, Universitat de València; Marina Pi-Ruano, Universitat de València, and Pilar Tejero Gimeno, Universitat de València While some of us enjoy curling [...]
