One in three university students (30.6%) have experienced sexual assault at least once in their lifetime. This is one finding from the 2021 National Student Safety Survey (NSSS) report, released today. The survey responses from 43,819 students enrolled in 38 Australian universities, as well as written responses from 1,835 current and former students, demonstrate the extent […] … learn more→
1 in 3 uni students have been sexually assaulted in their lifetime. They demand action on their vision of a safer society
Colleges routinely fail to ask about new hires’ history of sexual harassment
When three graduate students sued Harvard University in early 2022 for sexual harassment by a tenured professor, they claimed the school hired the professor despite knowing that he allegedly harassed students at the last school where he worked. The students also claim Harvard ignored the professor’s sexual harassment of students at Harvard, including one of the individuals who sued. […] … learn more→
How adversity impacts the disproportionate suspensions of Black and Indigenous students
In North American elementary and high-schools, Black and Indigenous students are disciplined through suspension and expulsion more often than their peers. These same groups of students are also more often exposed to adversity and trauma such as community violence, racism and inequity. As a social worker for many years in the Greater Toronto Area and Vancouver, in children’s mental health, child […] … learn more→
When students rate their teachers: justice or consumerism?
In universities, since 2014, students who have followed a course must evaluate it by means of satisfaction questionnaires which vary according to the establishment. They are asked if the content of the course is coherent and useful, what is its pedagogical quality or if they consider that the teacher has mastered his subject. These evaluations are […] … learn more→
What are the reasons for using Bitcoin wallets while travelling?
Many people firmly believe that it is imperative to have an account on Bitcoin to receive the wallet and use it while travelling. In today’s time, the first choice of any tourist is bitcoin currency because they know that it will make their travelling very smooth and easy. There is an entire list of reasons […] … learn more→
More than 1 million Australians have no access to childcare in their area
About 9 million Australians, 35% of the population, live in neighbourhoods classified as childcare deserts – populated areas where there are more than three children per childcare place. In the first research of its kind in Australia, the Mitchell Institute has examined access to childcare in more than 50,000 neighbourhoods across the country. We found about 1.1 million Australians […] … learn more→
Rejection at school: when the group doesn’t like you, it becomes chronic
The need to belong is fundamental in the development of human beings. For the smallest humans, this need takes the form of having companions for learning, playing games and, somewhat later, friends. But for some girls and boys, this does not work and they are systematically excluded from group relationships. His companions prefer to be with other […] … learn more→
What is an audit trail and why do you need one?
The term audit trail is shorthand. i use it to describe “evidential” material that you provide for a reader. I am a bit suspicious of the overuse of the word evidence, and I prefer “audit” because it describes what actually happens. “Audit” signals the work that your additional material has to do. Because readers want […] … learn more→
How teachers can learn to teach digital skills
Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) are integrated into any area of society. They should also be part of the educational field. They are presented as instruments capable of transforming the conception of the classroom as a unique training space, and the blackboard and the textbook as teaching resources par excellence. Digital competence is one of the key […] … learn more→
More than entertainment: Indigenous women are teaching through filmmaking
Boys fish with their mother and grandmother. A young woman trains as a mixed martial artist. Relay riders race horses around a track, leaping from horse to horse. A twelve-year-old navigates the Oka Crisis. A mother joins an underground freedom movement in order to get her daughter back. A young girl learns she can change the story. Each sentence above links to a film made by […] … learn more→