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Education | Infrastructure
Predicting demand for schools – insights from a demographer
Accurately forecasting demand for schools is an increasingly complex (yet ostensibly simple) task. While birth rates give some indication of how many children there will be, they can’t tell us exactly which school they will attend. Nor do they take into account how many children may enter the country with their migrant families. In fact,…
1 Nov 2022, by Amy SarcevicEducation | Infrastructure
How to balance spatial efficiency and learning outcomes when upgrading schools
As NSW gears up for an annual population increase of 85,000 over the next twenty years, a trend towards more densely populated schools is emerging – and presenting a major challenge to smaller campuses across the state. Despite already dealing with spatial and budgetary constraints, NSW public schools will need to accommodate an additional 180,000…
31 Oct 2022, by Amy SarcevicEducation
The main ingredient for teaching success
School principal Tina King still vividly recalls the day a recently qualified teacher knocked on her office door and began sobbing. Just months into the role, pressures from parents, students, and impending exams had begun to feel overwhelming – her last hope to purge all in an impromptu meeting with her boss. “It was heartbreaking,”…
16 Feb 2021, by Amy SarcevicEducation
Meeting Victorian students at their learning point of need – an interview with Karen Money
Working with 26 Victorian schools during last year’s forced closures, award-winning educator, Karen Money, made one clear observation about remote learning: that some students thrived with the added autonomy, whilst others lagged without in-person teacher support. “The polarity really struck me,” she said ahead of The Age Schools Summit. “Some students flourished when they were…
4 Feb 2021, by Amy SarcevicEducation
Small group tutoring in NSW – why the need and how will it work?
Next year, students in New South Wales (NSW) will have access to free tutoring for the first time, thanks to a $337 million program as part of the state’s 2020-21 Budget. Under the scheme, an additional 5,500 staff will be employed to deliver small group teaching sessions to all eligible students throughout the state. The…
8 Dec 2020, by Amy SarcevicEducation
The structure of Australian schooling needs to change – Prof. Adrian Piccoli
Former NSW Education Minister and Director of the Gonski Institute for Education, Professor Adrian Piccoli, is challenging the status quo of Australia’s school system, in a bid to achieve greater equity for students. Piccoli believes the existing structure, funding model, and underlying regulatory framework is doing a disservice to low socio-economic status (SES) students, with…
3 Dec 2020, by Amy SarcevicEducation | Infrastructure
How do we make all schools inclusive?
Australia has been taking strides towards inclusive school design for a number of decades, but with little clarity on what an inclusive design should actually look like. While the 7 Principles of Universal Design provides a general framework, its clauses are too abstract to offer any real direction to designers. Meanwhile, the evidence base to…
12 Oct 2020, by Amy SarcevicEducation | Occupational Health & Safety
How to evaluate your school’s COVID-19 safety program
Infection avoidance, liability avoidance, and government compliance. As a school governor, it is easy to think that you have your COVID-19 risk management plan down pat. However, safely increasing occupancy numbers in schools during the pandemic is a deceptively complex task, according to Lt. John Weinstein of the Northern Virginia Community College Police Department, USA.…
30 Sep 2020, by Amy SarcevicEducation
Digital degree market a totally different ball game, says Oxford’s Simon Marginson
From retail, to healthcare, to corporate enterprise, the COVID-19 pandemic has spurred digital disruption in almost every sector. For some activities, the digital medium has proven to be more popular than its in-person alternative. With the arrival of bulk-billable telehealth, for example, overall GP consultations have surged. As have virtual meeting software sign-ups, with research…
9 Sep 2020, by Amy SarcevicEducation
How do we help our country survive? A change in focus for Australian universities
The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has not been kind to any of us, but for Australia’s higher education sector it has been crippling. A huge drop-off in international students – which once comprised the nation’s third largest export – has left a $16 billion dent in the industry. This has prompted the government to reconsider some…
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