Pasi Sahlberg

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What is creativity, and why is it essential in our lives?

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New research reveals digital devices as a great distraction in family life.

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Some children are not socially engaging with their peers in the way they did before the pandemic. It's understandable if parents are worried.

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A study asked 2,000 teachers and school leaders across Australia how students from primary school to year 12 have changed in the last five years, and what might explain these changes.

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Gonski Institute for Education research reveals Australian educators’ perspectives on children, digital technology, health and learning.

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For some children, learning online will be little more than an inconvenience. For others it will magnify their learning disadvantage. This move is a mass social experiment never done before.

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Pasi Sahlberg is professor of education policy and deputy director of the Gonski Institute at UNSW. The Finnish educator and author has advised on education reforms around the world.

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When to send a child to school can be a tough decision, but all the evidence shows that 7 is the optimal age for starting formal education.

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Leaders from the Gonski Institute for Education at UNSW Sydney will hold a forum tonight to explore dramatic changes posed for schools by the recent Gonski report.