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Coco Schwaighofer, Dominic Despot, and Anton Perumal at coding camp during their holidays at the International Grammar ...

Forget the tents: there's a new kind of camp in town

This summer holidays, instead of the more traditional cricket or tennis camps, thousands of kids as young as 6 or 7 will be holed up in front of computers at privately-run coding and robot camps. 

Illustration: Matt Davidson

We have a bigger problem than being bad at maths

Spare a thought for Australia's 15-year-olds. If they don't have enough to contend with, between the immediate demands of Snapchat and a future of robots stealing their jobs, now they have to bear the brunt of a nation's slighted pride.