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Schools Should Ban Mobile Phones to Improve Students’ Academic Results and Mental Wellbeing
Schools Should Ban Mobile Phones to Improve Students’ Academic Results and Mental Wellbeing

Mental Health & Wellbeing, Technology

Schools Should Ban Mobile Phones to Improve Students’ Academic Results and Mental Wellbeing

In a lifestyle change which would have seemed unbelievable a generation ago, more teenagers own a telephone than a bike. The crucible happened six years ago: 2012 was the year teen mobile phone ownership crossed the 50 per cent mark. Since then, the saturation of these hand held devices has only increased, nine out of [...]

By Generation Next|2021-02-22T17:39:51+11:00June 21st, 2018|Categories: Mental Health & Wellbeing, Technology|Tags: academic results, mental well-being, mobile phones, screen addiction, students|1 Comment

State school kids do better at uni

State school graduates do better at university than private school graduates with the same end-of-school tertiary entrance score. That’s the clear finding in a number of Australian studies since the 1980s (here, here, here and here), and in England since the 1990s (here, here, and here). The Australian research compared academic results at the end [...]

By Dr Ramesh Manocha|2014-07-20T16:30:39+10:00July 20th, 2014|Categories: Society & Culture|Tags: academic results, ATAR, Australian studies, England, private school, State school, uni|0 Comments