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| UpdatedIf Queensland students are hoping for a heat-induced early departure on hot school days, they may be a little disappointed.
Topics: weather, primary-schools, public-schools, secondary-schools, community-and-society, children, education, government-and-politics, toowoomba-4350, st-george-4487
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| UpdatedIf you thought school might be finishing early due to the heatwave today, think again.
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Maxine Beneba Clarke is an author and poet who's been targeted all her life over the colour of her skin. Her award-winning work is inspired both by personal experience, and the desire to start difficult conversations about race.
Topics: arts-and-entertainment, books-literature, autobiography, novel, poetry, performance-art, discrimination, family-and-children, parenting, immigration, multiculturalism, race-relations, education, education, australia, nsw, kellyville-2155, melbourne-3000, guyana, jamaica
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The Australian National University will look beyond admission rankings when selecting future students, saying the scores exclude people from regional Australia and disadvantaged backgrounds.
Topics: university-and-further-education, education, music-education, canberra-2600, act
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| UpdatedA tiny plastic farmer wearing a wide-brimmed hat and green overalls does his bit to raise awareness of Australian agriculture.
Topics: rural, farm-labour, human-interest, offbeat, primary, education, information-and-communication, internet-culture, social-media, tocumwal-2714, nsw
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| UpdatedWould you camp out overnight to ensure your child got into a more desirable state school? These parents are doing just that.
Topics: public-schools, schools, education, family-and-children, human-interest, ascot-4359, brisbane-4000
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Beverley O'Connor and Michigan public radio journalist Rick Pluta discuss the controversial appointment of the conservative billionaire to the education portfolio.
Topics: education, schools, evolution, united-states
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| UpdatedYoung people discuss whether regional schools can give country students the same opportunities as their city cousins.
Topics: access-to-education, education, rural-youth, rural, canberra-2600
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| UpdatedSchool camps can provide great experiences for both students and teachers, particularly when it comes to relationship building.
Topics: children, schools, teachers, education, canberra-2600
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| UpdatedIn the first program of its kind in Australia, and possibly the world, lawyer Vincent Shin works full-time at a Melbourne school.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, family-law, international-law, laws, education, schools, counselling, hoppers-crossing-3029
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| UpdatedUS President Donald Trump's choice of billionaire Betsy DeVos to be education secretary is confirmed by the US Senate, but only after Vice-President Mike Pence is called in to break a tie that threatened to defeat her.
Topics: us-elections, world-politics, education, united-states
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Remote Schooling
Topics: education, longreach-4730
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Host: John Barron
Panel: Adam Creighton, Bob Carr and Gabrielle Chan
Interview with: Noel Debien
The panel discusses Cory Bernardi's predicted split from the Liberal Party, the Royal Commission findings and Donald Trump's Twitter attack on US judge James Robart.
Topics: education, government-and-politics, australia, united-states
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A Danish development worker who rescued a young boy abandoned in Nigeria last year celebrates the boy's first week at school.
Topics: community-and-society, charities-and-community-organisations, health, education, access-to-education, nigeria
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Fine motor skills in children
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| UpdatedQueensland police complete an investigation into an assault that left Brisbane teenager Tyrone Unsworth hospitalised with a broken jaw, a month before he took his own life.
Topics: primary-schools, mental-health, community-and-society, suicide, bullying, education, secondary-schools, schools, activism-and-lobbying, gays-and-lesbians, brisbane-4000
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Dr Wootten says there are proven benefits of practising mindfulness for students, teachers and families.
Topics: education, mental-health, australia
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| UpdatedExperts say the practice of mindfulness can help families and teachers transition from holidays to being back in a school routine.
Topics: education, mental-health, child-health-and-behaviour, parenting, family-and-children, schools, australia
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| UpdatedIn November 2016, Tyrone Unsworth killed himself after years of homophobic bullying. He was 13. His school claims it knew nothing, but the warning signs were there.
Topics: primary-schools, mental-health, community-and-society, suicide, bullying, education, secondary-schools, schools, gays-and-lesbians, brisbane-4000
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| UpdatedBack to school for one remote principal involves coordinating nine schools across multiple time zones over an area as big at the United Kingdom.
Topics: regional, aboriginal, aboriginal-language, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, education, access-to-education, community-and-society, children, primary-schools, indigenous-culture, kalgoorlie-6430, alice-springs-0870
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| UpdatedThe Australian National University edges out some of the world's most prestigious institutions to place in the top ten of a list ranking influence in global research and teaching.
Topics: university-and-further-education, education, australian-national-university-0200, university-of-new-south-wales-2052, university-of-melbourne-3010, monash-university-3800, the-university-of-sydney-2006, australia, act, vic, nsw
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| UpdatedAs school returns this week one class is not just learning about history but making it, as the first private secondary students in the Riverland.
Topics: secondary-schools, schools, access-to-education, education, community-and-society, glossop-5344
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| UpdatedThe first week of school for Olivia Wood is a little different to other students. She's starting the year at the Sydney Children's Hospital School and has to fit homework around treatment for cystic fibrosis.
Topics: education, schools, health, child-health-and-behaviour, healthcare-facilities, people, sydney-2000
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Aboriginal students from UTAS will spend time in the US learning about Native American culture and history, and sharing their own, in a "life-changing" opportunity.
Topics: education, university-and-further-education, tas, university-of-tasmania-7005