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Literacy key to improve higher education access for disadvantaged students

16 Mar 2022

Prioritising literacy is a fundamental first step towards addressing equity issues in higher education.

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Why we should (carefully) consider paying kids to learn

14 Feb 2019

Research shows small financial incentives for doing maths homework can increase maths achievement. But this raises some tricky ethical questions.

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Children’s literacy: what works and why?

10 Nov 2016

A conference at UNSW on 15 November will bring together leading academics and practitioners to explore successful strategies for improving students’ literacy

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Smarter engagement with Asia

09 Jun 2015

Actively engaging diasporas and tapping into their latent Asia literacy is central to breaking Australia's vicious cycle of monolingualism, write Kirrilee Hughes and Kent Anderson.