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Kauriland teachers create a funny lockdown video to connect with children during lockdown.
Teacher read to class without a mask despite Covid symptoms and infected 26 people at California elementary school
Some children have found a devious method to get out of school – using cola to create false positive Covid tests. How does it work?
Start-ups hope there’s no turning back for online learning, even as more students return to the classroom.
A Melbourne social worker who specialises in school refusal says his referrals have almost tripled since school returned in 2021. He is worried about the long-term implications for kids.
Universities have legitimate reasons for employing some staff on casual contracts, but the impacts of the COVID pandemic have brought long-standing problems to a head. Now is the time to act on these.
Up to 20 million girls worldwide have been pushed out of school due to closures. The Australian government could help them by increasing its investment in a global campaign.
Some will disappear completely
Australia's economy is starting to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic but despite improvements, one sector is set to fall further behind.
Many colleges and universities have figured out how to diagnose their populations and control outbreaks—and offer a vision for more normal life until the vaccine is available to all.
Firmly linking teen suicides to school closings is difficult, but rising mental health emergencies and suicide rates point to the toll the pandemic lockdown is taking.
In 2020, at least 28,000 teachers were deployed to Covid-19 roles, according to two teachers' associations in New Delhi.
James White, interim dean of the University of Colorado at Boulder’s College of Arts and Sciences and proponent of shrinking the college’s share of tenured- and tenure-track professors, apologized for an unpopular comment he made last week to Inside Higher Ed. In an interview, White said, “Never waste a good pandemic,” a play on the phrase “Never waste a good crisis,” as his rationale for introducing his controversial faculty hiring concept during COVID-19. “I made an ill-considered remark,” White wrote in a subsequent public apology. “In describing the need to be deliberative and thoughtful about how and where we cut, I said, ‘Never waste a good pandemic.’ That was flippant and insensitive. I apologize.” White added, “I should have stuck to my underlying point, which is this: In times of crisis, like the one we are in, we are duty-bound to cut spending in a way most likely to preserve the long-term health of the college and its educational mission and protect the long-term prospects of its students.”
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Many of the countries that have seen the longest pauses in classroom education were among those least equipped to transition to remote learning. Students are facing dire consequences, teachers say.
The head of Victoria’s fourth-biggest university has flagged making COVID-19 vaccinations mandatory for students and staff, arguing people who avoid getting vaccinated are making a choice “that is at best ill advised and potentially verging on the negligent”.
Deakin University vice-chancellor Iain Martin raised the prospect of introducing mandatory vaccinations for students and staff from the start of the first semester in 2022.
Exhausted educators are looking forward to summer and thinking about what they’ve learned.
The pandemic has upended almost every aspect of school. Educators are rethinking instruction, testing, teacher preparation, the role of technology, attendance and even the length of a school day and structure of a school year.
"People don't realize how much we need to see these kids," says a teacher, noting teachers are often the first to see signs of child abuse or food insecurity. The problem spans rural and urban areas.
About two-thirds of Australian universities won't be offering on-campus lectures in 2021. But that's not all the pandemic's fault – it simply accelerated a shift away from the traditional format.
Declining enrollment in education could hold back the economy even after the pandemic ends.
If one in five international students don't re-enrol, the loss of revenue would plunge half of all Australian universities into budget deficit or financial turmoil.
Peak body Universities Australia said it anticipated there would be more job cuts from campuses this year.
Study finds worsening wellbeing and self-esteem among teenagers, raising fears pandemic will exacerbate trend
As coronavirus pandemic intensifies, many colleges are starting classes online.
Even in places where schools want to reopen, too many teachers are sick or quarantining for classrooms to operate, and substitutes cannot fill the void.
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