What makes Chinese students so successful by international standards?
Chinese learners achieve remarkable success levels compared to their Western peers. But it’s not simply based on rote ...
It would cost billions, but pay for itself over time. The economic case for air conditioning every Australian school
Most schools are only ventilated using windows, which are often closed. Installing high-filtration air conditioning would cut ...
Why do some schools still force girls to wear skirts or dresses?
A Queensland tribunal has ruled it is not discriminatory for a school to require girls to wear a skirt at formal events.
Labor retains office at ACT election; US presidential election remains on a knife’s edge
Labor has won a seventh consecutive term, having governed in the ACT since 2001, often in coalition with the Greens. At the ...
Indonesia’s new president, Prabowo Subianto, finds democracy ‘very tiring’. Are darker days ahead for the country?
Prabowo’s party wants to revert to Indonesia’s original authoritarian Constitution. Are there enough guardrails in place to ...
How light helped shape our skin colour, eyes and curly hair
Light helps explains the evolution of our skin colour, why some of us have curly hair, and the size of our eyes. And light ...
A technical fix to keep kids safe online? Here’s what happened last time Australia tried to make a ‘clean’ internet
Australia’s proposal to bar young people from social media faces similar issues to the ‘clean feed’ internet filter abandoned ...
Do electric cars greatly increase the average mass of cars on the road? Not in Australia
Simplistic comparisons are misleading. Calculations based on the mix of electric and fossil-fuelled cars actually on our ...
Genome sequencing developed to trace COVID is now protecting babies in intensive care from infectious diseases
Infectious disease control in neonatal units is often reactive, only after several babies fall ill at the same time.
B.C. election tells the tale of two British Columbias divided along ideological fault lines
The too-close-to-call B.C. election results show the deep ideological and geographical divisions in the province.
What are executive function delays? Research shows they’re similar in ADHD and autism
Executive function delays affect skills such as as paying attention, switching attention, controlling impulses and ...
In the U.S. presidential election, religious groups are more divided than we think
The apparent unity of certain religious groups hides a denominational vote that is sharply divided, particularly along ethnic ...