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Algorithms can decide your marks, your work prospects and your financial security. How do you know they’re fair?
Algorithms can decide your marks, your work prospects and your financial security. How do you know they’re fair?

Education, Mental Health & Wellbeing

Algorithms can decide your marks, your work prospects and your financial security. How do you know they’re fair?

By Kalervo Gulson, University of Sydney; Claire Benn, Australian National University; Kirsty Kitto, University of Technology Sydney; Simon Knight, University of Technology Sydney, and Teresa Swist, University of Sydney Algorithms are becoming commonplace. They can determine employment prospects, financial security and more. The use of algorithms can be controversial – for example, robodebt, as the [...]

By Generation Next|2021-11-22T12:48:46+11:00November 22nd, 2021|Categories: Education, Mental Health & Wellbeing|Tags: Article|0 Comments

Students’ choice of university has no effect on new graduate pay, and a small impact later on. What they study matters more
Students’ choice of university has no effect on new graduate pay, and a small impact later on. What they study matters more

Education, Mental Health & Wellbeing

Students’ choice of university has no effect on new graduate pay, and a small impact later on. What they study matters more

By Andrew Norton, Australian National University Every year in Australia school leavers suffer ATAR anxiety, worrying about whether they will get into their preferred course and university. New research by the Commonwealth Department of Education, using Australian Taxation Office earnings data, examines in detail how much difference what a person studies, and where, makes to [...]

By Generation Next|2021-11-15T12:27:46+11:00November 15th, 2021|Categories: Education, Mental Health & Wellbeing|Tags: Article|0 Comments

How much time should you spend studying? Our ‘Goldilocks Day’ tool helps find the best balance of good grades and well-being
How much time should you spend studying? Our ‘Goldilocks Day’ tool helps find the best balance of good grades and well-being

Education, Mental Health & Wellbeing

How much time should you spend studying? Our ‘Goldilocks Day’ tool helps find the best balance of good grades and well-being

By Dot Dumuid, University of South Australia and Tim Olds, University of South Australia For students, as for all of us, life is a matter of balance, trade-offs and compromise. Studying for hours on end is unlikely to lead to best academic results. And it could have negative impacts on young people’s physical, mental and [...]

By Generation Next|2021-11-15T12:18:42+11:00November 15th, 2021|Categories: Education, Mental Health & Wellbeing|Tags: Article|0 Comments

The tutor learning initiative needs to be open to learning – but not just by students
The tutor learning initiative needs to be open to learning – but not just by students

COVID, Education, Mental Health & Wellbeing

The tutor learning initiative needs to be open to learning – but not just by students

With the Victorian tutor learning initiative (TLI) extended through 2022, government and non-government schools can continue to engage teaching professionals to provide extra individual learning support to students whose learning may have suffered in 2020 and 2021. There’s $480 million being invested in the initiative to allow this program to run in schools during 2021 and 2022. More [...]

By Generation Next|2021-11-08T11:41:44+11:00November 8th, 2021|Categories: COVID, Education, Mental Health & Wellbeing|Tags: Article|0 Comments

Missing out on PE during lockdowns means students will be playing catch-up
Missing out on PE during lockdowns means students will be playing catch-up

COVID, Education, Learning, Mental Health & Wellbeing, Nature Play

Missing out on PE during lockdowns means students will be playing catch-up

By Jora Broerse, Victoria University; Cameron Van der Smee, Federation University Australia, and Jaimie-Lee Maple, Victoria University International evidence suggests children have poorer movement skills as a result of COVID-related lockdowns that reduced physical activity at school, socially and in the community. In parts of Australia, learning from home replaced face-to-face classroom teaching for months [...]

By Generation Next|2021-11-01T11:51:13+11:00November 1st, 2021|Categories: COVID, Education, Learning, Mental Health & Wellbeing, Nature Play|Tags: Article|0 Comments

40% of year 12s suffer high anxiety. At exam time, here’s what parents can do to help
40% of year 12s suffer high anxiety. At exam time, here’s what parents can do to help

COVID, Education, Mental Health & Wellbeing

40% of year 12s suffer high anxiety. At exam time, here’s what parents can do to help

By Eimear Quigley, Edith Cowan University Parents can feel hopeless when their children experience the huge emotional burden that comes with final-year exams. Sometimes our best intentions may actually make our children (and ourselves) feel worse. Previous research has found more than 40% of year 12 students experience anxiety symptoms high enough to be of [...]

By Generation Next|2021-11-01T11:44:56+11:00November 1st, 2021|Categories: COVID, Education, Mental Health & Wellbeing|Tags: Article|0 Comments

COVID vaccines for 5 to 11 year olds are inching closer. Here’s what we know so far
COVID vaccines for 5 to 11 year olds are inching closer. Here’s what we know so far

COVID, Education, Mental Health & Wellbeing, Wellbeing

COVID vaccines for 5 to 11 year olds are inching closer. Here’s what we know so far

By Vasso Apostolopoulos, Victoria University; Athina (Tina) Soulis, The University of Melbourne; Jack Feehan, Victoria University, and Maja Husaric, Victoria University Australian children aged five to 11 could begin receiving the Pfizer vaccine by the end of November, with the nation’s regulator currently reviewing the health and safety data. Pfizer submitted a partial application to [...]

By Generation Next|2021-11-01T11:34:20+11:00November 1st, 2021|Categories: COVID, Education, Mental Health & Wellbeing, Wellbeing|Tags: Article|0 Comments

Counselling conundrum: How school psychology services have coped with COVID
Counselling conundrum: How school psychology services have coped with COVID

COVID, Education, Mental Health & Wellbeing, Wellbeing

Counselling conundrum: How school psychology services have coped with COVID

By Andrea Reupert, Kelly-Ann Allen, Emily Berger, Zoe Morris, Dianne Summers, Gerald Wurf and Fiona May School psychologists and counsellors provide a critical service supporting students with learning and emotional needs. During COVID-19 restrictions, they had to change the way they provided this service. Given that there have been seven international health crises over the [...]

By Generation Next|2021-10-15T16:51:52+11:00October 11th, 2021|Categories: COVID, Education, Mental Health & Wellbeing, Wellbeing|Tags: Article|0 Comments

Social dilemma: The challenges for international students’ mental health
Social dilemma: The challenges for international students’ mental health

COVID, Education, Mental Health & Wellbeing, Wellbeing

Social dilemma: The challenges for international students’ mental health

By Helen Forbes-Mewett, Associate Professor of Sociology, School of Social Sciences Australian universities are understood to have the highest number of international students per capita worldwide. Their wellbeing is paramount to the higher education sector. Despite the struggles international students face while studying in an unfamiliar environment, there’s a counter-narrative regarding the many associated positives [...]

By Generation Next|2021-10-11T18:16:21+11:00October 1st, 2021|Categories: COVID, Education, Mental Health & Wellbeing, Wellbeing|Tags: Article|0 Comments

Promoting health in schools: Old idea, new opportunities
Promoting health in schools: Old idea, new opportunities

Education, Social and Emotional Learning, Wellbeing

Promoting health in schools: Old idea, new opportunities

By Dr Monika Raniti, Dr Ruth Aston and Professor Susan Sawyer The idea of health-promoting schools is not new. Defined by the World Health Organization (WHO), these are schools that are “constantly strengthening their capacity as a healthy setting for living, learning and working” for all members of the school community. A health-promoting school [...]

By Generation Next|2021-09-20T13:34:48+10:00September 20th, 2021|Categories: Education, Social and Emotional Learning, Wellbeing|Tags: Article|0 Comments