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| UpdatedSchool children in a small town in western New South Wales hit the pots and pans to help provide energy for firefighters.
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| UpdatedSchool principal Paul Browning says the education system is crushing creativity, so he's on a mission to convince the Federal Government to take a closer look at the issue.
Topics: education, work, government-and-politics, bald-hills-4036, australia, qld
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| UpdatedAs the war enters its sixth year, teachers in Syria's refugee camps are trying to make do with the little they have — but the students there face a bleak future in a life disrupted by war.
Topics: refugees, community-and-society, immigration, education, unrest-conflict-and-war, poverty, syrian-arab-republic
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Topics: refugees, immigration, community-and-society, education, schools, unrest-conflict-and-war, syrian-arab-republic
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| UpdatedThe ABC's Fact Check unit is back in business as a collaboration with the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, after being closed in 2016 due to budget cuts.
Topics: media, industry, education, university-and-further-education, melbourne-3000, australia
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| UpdatedThe principal at North Brisbane's St Paul's School, Paul Browning, says the way schools teach kids is killing their creativity and that teachers need to let go of some control to foster innovative thinking.
Topics: education, government-and-politics, australia
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| UpdatedPrime Minister Malcolm Turnbull is applauding progress in health and education ahead of the release of the latest report card into Indigenous disadvantage.
Topics: indigenous-policy, health-policy, education, australia
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The Q&A panel disagrees on the government's proposed cuts to early childhood education.
Topics: access-to-education, government-and-politics, federal-government, welfare, community-and-society, education, preschool, australia
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Australia's first university-based healing touch clinic opens in Townsville to offer students the chance to learn more about the therapy.
Topics: alternative-medicine, health, education, townsville-4810
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Samuel Koschel was born with only one good ear and is spending the year learning classroom and social skills for his transition into a mainstream school.
Topics: hearing, education, child-health-and-behaviour, children, schools, primary-schools, ear-nose-and-throat-disorders, sydney-2000
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| UpdatedThe US Department of Education is left embarrassed after posting an inspirational quote on Twitter, only to misspell the author's name — and the internet was quick to pick up on the irony.
Topics: education, social-media, government-and-politics, united-states
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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