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It's a numbers game: embedding early career teachers

24 Jul 2023

As NSW works hard to attract new teachers, another answer is to keep them in the profession. Research by UNSW Sydney's Rebecca Collie into teacher wellbeing offers some solutions.

A young girl writes on a chalkboard with maths equations on it

The quest to make Australia great at maths again

20 Jul 2022

No need to go back to the drawing board to revive Aussie kids’ interest in maths, it all starts with a change in attitude.

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How learning another language shapes the new you

09 Jul 2021

There are many benefits to learning a language beyond being a useful skill or hobby.

Portrait of teenage girl with classmates using laptops in computer class

Setting 'personal best' goals helps students - especially those academically at-risk

05 Jul 2021

An educational approach that helps students focus on their own progress can level the academic playing field, the largest study of its kind has shown.

teacher in classroom feeling stressed

Temp teachers pressured to 'prove themselves' vulnerable to exploitation

17 May 2021

NSW public school teachers on short fixed-term contracts report feeling forced to compete with colleagues to stay employed.

BJ Newton and Kevin Lowe

UNSW Arts & Social Sciences researchers receive ARC Discovery Indigenous grants

03 Nov 2020

New projects will focus on restoration of children from out of home care and Indigenous content in curriculum.

Two young students playing the recorder

Good music education is not the recorder

12 Oct 2020

Music education isn’t always that great. Just look to the recorder.

Teachers and students

How to nurture teacher-student relationships in COVID-19

08 Sep 2020

Strong and positive teacher-student bonds are important during the pandemic, says educational psychology researcher Dr Rebecca Collie.

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Why you should learn a musical instrument

28 Aug 2020

Learning music has many benefits, but not in the ways you might think.

Professor Claire Annesley

The new Dean of Arts & Social Sciences: moving in a global academic community

10 Feb 2020

Claire Annesley plans to build on the Faculty’s international reputation continuing to attract students and academics to take on society’s most pressing problems.

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