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Gap in academic skills of girls and boys widens, show Sats

Sats are national tests in the UK that children take twice during their primary school life; firstly, at the end of Key Stage 1 (KS1) in Year 2, and then secondly, at the end of Key Stage 2 (KS2) in Year 6. These . . .

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Take the money and run: how Australian universities let down their Chinese students

The following opinion piece from The Guardian is quite negative on how Australian Universities are supporting students from China. The author (Yang Tian) believes that “Our (Australian) institutions are . . .

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An after-school routine to help kids and parents beat homework stress

A recent survey in the US found that nearly 25 percent of parents think their children are given more homework than they can handle, while four in five parents said they have struggled to understand their kids&rsq . . .

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Australia's school education report card

Here is an interesting article from the Sydney Morning Herald giving a report card on the Australian education system by Peter Adams, the Melbourne-based global director for The Balanced Scorecard for Schools prog . . .

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Chinese university says new classroom facial recognition system will improve attendance

Last week ChalkFace wrote about a school in Sweden that has been trialing facial recognition software ( Facial recognition: School ID checks lead to fine in Sweden) . The local authority running that trial was fin . . .

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Online harassment and its real life consequences

Over the summer, racist comments taken from a seemingly harmless chatgroup on social media became the basis for the suspension and expulsion of several students at one of Hong Kong’s local english speaking h . . .

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We asked teachers for the one thing students do that drives them nuts - and these are the 6 answers that kept coming up

Business Insider asked teachers to respond to the question, "What's one thing students do that drives you nuts?" When students get addicted to posting everything on social media. When students lie. When stude . . .

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Countries with well-developed public education systems, ranked by perception

The 2019 Best Countries for Education are ranked based on a perception-based global survey, which used a compilation of scores from three equally weighted country attributes: a well-developed public education syst . . .

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