2009 October:   Education
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Nick Miller, Specialist teams will target youth, The Age, 2009 Oct. 15 (four new youth mental health teams, due to be announced this month, will go into schools, youth centres and perhaps even shopping centres and railways stations to identify and help young people with early signs of mental illness)
Farrah Tomazin, Stemming the tide of cyber bullying, The Age, 2009 Oct. 13 (the latest research from Edith Cowan University suggests that on any given day, about 100,000 Australian children will be bullied at school; and between 10-15 per cent are cyber bullied through social networking websites, instant online messaging, mobile phones or other forms of digital technology)
Josh Gordon, Law change takes aim at schoolyard tormentors, The Age, 2009 Oct. 4 (following a major rethink of the 25-year-old Sex Discrimination Act, anti-harassment laws could be extended to cover children under 16, a group not yet regarded as facing risk; Men who ask employers for reduced hours to look after children also stand to gain greater legal protection from discrimination by employers)
Peter Gregory, Violent youths 'can be changed', The Age, 2009 Oct. 1 (young people engaging in street crime are spiritual anorexics whose behaviour can be changed through structured activities, a leading adolescent psychologist says)
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Adele Horin, Welfare families hand suffering down to young, The Age, 2009 Oct. 1 (young people who have grown up in welfare-dependent families are disadvantaged in more ways than has previously been realised, a study shows; from much higher rates of asthma and hospitalisation to much lower rates of post-school study and entry to university, the young are likely to suffer the disadvantages of their parents)
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Dellaram Jamali, A little bit of music magic soothes young minds, The Age, 2009 Oct. 22 (ask childhood entertainer Don Spencer and he'll tell you music is magic, and so it is hoped for the students of Strathewan Primary School, eight months since their school was destroyed in the Black Saturday fires)
Farrah Tomazin, Strategy targets homeless students, The Age, 2009 Oct. 16 (schools will be told to provide more breakfast clubs, mentoring programs and teach resilience skills as part of the state curriculum)
Nick Miller, Boost for pupil anti-stress program, The Age, 2009 Oct. 6 (a national program that teaches young schoolchildren how to battle stress, anxiety and depression is about to quadruple in size with an $18.7 million injection from the Federal Government)
Miki Perkins, Students hear of domestic tragedy, The Age, 2009 Oct. 6 (male year-10 students at Northcote High are taking part in a pioneering program that will educate them about violence towards women in all its guises—from verbal harassment to cyber bullying to physical assault)
Peter Gregory, Violent youths 'can be changed', The Age, 2009 Oct. 1 (young people engaging in street crime are spiritual anorexics whose behaviour can be changed through structured activities, a leading adolescent psychologist says)
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Farrah Tomazin, Strategy targets homeless students, The Age, 2009 Oct. 16 (schools will be told to provide more breakfast clubs, mentoring programs and teach resilience skills as part of the state curriculum; guidelines to be released today will also encourage schools to waive fees for homeless children, give them free or subsidised excursions or uniforms, and provide them with student support groups in a bid to stop them from dropping out of school)
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Miki Perkins and Farrah Tomazin, Work can spell disaster for uni students, The Age, 2009 Oct. 23 (a study released yesterday found that more than one in six drop-outs had worked 15 hours or more to help pay for tertiary costs, compared with 9 per cent of those working up to 14 hours a week, and 4.8 per cent who did not work at all)
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Farrah Tomazin, Backing for McDonald's role in schools, The Age, 2009 Oct. 21 (leading educators have endorsed fast-food giants such as McDonald's being more involved in schools—even if it means exposing students to brand advertising—because governments can no longer be solely relied on to boost the education system)
Dan Harrison, Australia, US in school deal, The Age, 2009 Oct. 19 (Education Minister Julia Gillard has signed a deal with US President Barak Obama's Education Secretary, Arne Duncan, to foster collaboration between Australia and the United States on ways to improve schools)
Dan Harrison, Warning on uni grant shift, The Age, 2009 Oct. 13 (Deakin University has warned that the Rudd Government's planned changes to youth allowance could drive country students out of their communities to qualify for the payment)
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Dellaram Jamali, A little bit of music magic soothes young minds, The Age, 2009 Oct. 22 (ask childhood entertainer Don Spencer and he'll tell you music is magic, and so it is hoped for the students of Strathewan Primary School, eight months since their school was destroyed in the Black Saturday fires)
Verónica Psetizki, Laptop for every pupil in Uruguay, BBC, 2009 Oct. 16 (Uruguay has given computers to all of its primary school children as part of the One Laptop Per Child scheme)
Jason Dowling, Kindergartens bursting at the seams, The Age, 2009 Oct. 13 (kindergartens are feeling the full effect of Melbourne's baby boom that some have attributed partly to Peter Costello's $3000 baby bonus available from July 2004)
Nick Miller, Boost for pupil anti-stress program, The Age, 2009 Oct. 6 (a national program that teaches young schoolchildren how to battle stress, anxiety and depression is about to quadruple in size with an $18.7 million injection from the Federal Government)
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Miki Perkins, Students hear of domestic tragedy, The Age, 2009 Oct. 6 (male year-10 students at Northcote High are taking part in a pioneering program that will educate them about violence towards women in all its guises—from verbal harassment to cyber bullying to physical assault)
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Natalie Puchalski, Many voices, many stories, and a shared mission, The Age, 2009 Oct. 10 (a unique Melbourne project called Yarra Reporter is a journalism training program run by Infoxchange Australia that equips public housing residents with the basic skills needed to report on the issues affecting them)
Farrah Tomazin, Crunch dents youth job prospects, The Age, 2009 Oct. 7 (the economic downturn has severely dented the prospects of Australian school leavers, with teenage unemployment rising more than it has in decades and the chances of getting into tertiary education or training deteriorating over the past year)
Julia Medew, Parenting classes reduce postnatal depression, The Age, 2009 Oct. 3 (Melbourne University researchers recruited 400 new mothers and their partners to test whether specific lessons when their babies are one-month-old protected them from postnatal depression and anxiety)
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Farrah Tomazin, Stress at private schools costs millions, The Age, 2009 Oct. 19 (Victorian private school teachers are being paid out millions of dollars a year because of workplace stress and injuries, with some warning the problem will worsen as classroom demands and parental expectations continue to rise)
Farrah Tomazin, Teachers sprung for sex, drugs and theft, The Age, 2009 Oct. 16 (dozens of teachers who have committed sex crimes, drug offences, fraud and theft have been caught working in Victorian schools in the past year)
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Verónica Psetizki, Laptop for every pupil in Uruguay, BBC, 2009 Oct. 16 (Uruguay has given computers to all of its primary school children as part of the One Laptop Per Child scheme)
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Richard James, Is it time universities showed ENTER the exit?, The Age, 2009 Oct. 18 (it is troubling that, no matter what students' hidden capabilities, one number can still determine the life prospects of young people in Victoria; that number is the ENTER, the tertiary entrance rank that is computed from the VCE results)
Farrah Tomazin, Monash considers selection overhaul, The Age, 2009 Oct. 9 (Monash University may revamp the way students are selected, in a bid to meet the Federal Government's ambitious plan to get more people from poorer backgrounds into higher education)
Miki Perkins, School's reputation was at risk, The Age, 2009 Oct. 8 (the proposed merger between the Melbourne Business School and Melbourne University's faculty of economics and commerce was flawed and would have damaged the school's reputation, donor members of the school have been told)
Miki Perkins, Unis too casual on staff, The Age, 2009 Oct. 5 (speaking at a conference about Australia's looming shortage of academic staff, Melbourne University vice-chancellor Glyn Davis said the high number of casual staff was “deeply unsatisfactory”, both for staff and universities, and came down to the perennial issue of higher education funding; his comments followed a new report from Melbourne the university's LH Martin Institute that shows Australia's ageing academic workforce is not being replenished by younger scholars, and is heading for a “crisis”)
Farrah Tomazin, Melbourne Uni drops business school plan, The Age, 2009 Oct. 1 (Melbourne University has backed away from a contentious proposal to merge its prestigious Melbourne Business School with its economics faculty after not enough people supported the move)