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Luke Wilkins, La Trobe University Erling Haaland or Harry Kane? Mo Salah or Marcus Rashford? Use the “triple captain” chip or save it? This weekend (and pretty much every weekend until the end of May), millions of people around the world will be making these sorts of decisions, hoping the right [...]
Marg Rogers, University of New England South Australia’s royal commission into early childhood education led by Julia Gillard has released an interim report. The key recommendation is preschool for all three-year-olds (in a move similar to other states). But the report notes one of the critical considerations around this change will be the early education [...]
Dr Jenn Lacy-Nichols and Professor Rob Moodie Commercial interests shape our world, sometimes with devastating impacts on public health. Pandemic profiteering increased the fortunes of the world’s super-rich by $US 4 trillion as millions lost their jobs and struggled to make ends meet. In recent years, we have seen some efforts to hold some [...]
Dr Hugh GundlachLast week, I had my first classes with my pre-service teachers since they returned from their first classroom placement. Some had not come back. I am an initial teacher educator, that is, I work with graduate teachers at the beginning of their careers to give them a theoretical underpinning of education and [...]
Christina Maher, University of Sydney The technology to decode our thoughts is drawing ever closer. Neuroscientists at the University of Texas have for the first time decoded data from non-invasive brain scans and used them to reconstruct language and meaning from stories that people hear, see or even imagine. In a new study published [...]
Rachael Sharman, University of the Sunshine Coast I was a teenager during Australia’s 1990s “recession we had to have”, and remember clearly a friend asking his dad for some money to go to the movies. With equal parts frustration and resignation, the dad explained he’d been retrenched and wasn’t certain employment was on the [...]
Sarah Jefferson, Edith Cowan University School holidays become a very different challenge when kids leave primary school. The holiday program arrangements that once enabled parents to juggle work commitments may no longer be suitable or even available. You may find your child is at home largely unattended for two or three weeks. This can put [...]
Stephen Ashworth, University of East Anglia The school summer holidays are in full swing. If you’re a parent, you may be getting tired of hearing “I’m bored!” echoing through your home – especially on rainy days when everyone’s stuck inside. But pretty much every kitchen can double as a chemistry set. Here are some experiments [...]
Elizabeth Mary Clancy, Deakin University and Bianca Klettke, Deakin University The sending and receiving of intimate images and videos is increasingly becoming a part of people’s sexual relationships – particularly for teenagers and young adults. Image-based “sexting” has steadily increased over the past few years. Aggregated data from population-representative studies in the United States, which [...]
Vivienne Lewis, University of Canberra Season two of the series Heartstopper on Netflix brings out an issue that is often hidden – male eating disorders. Centred on two teenage boys in love, the show helps bust the common perception that eating disorders are only seen in girls and women. In one episode of the series, [...]
