I’d stayed back late to go to a seminar in an area that I wasn’t familiar with. When I left, evening was closing in so I took a short cut to my bus stop. I ended up in an area of the campus that I didn’t know at all. It was a bit wilder than […] … learn more→

Female Scientist Sits at His Workplace in Laboratory, Uses Personal Computer. Screen Shows Analyze of DNA. I the Background Genetics Research Centre with Innovative Equipment.[/caption] Female Scientist Sits at His Workplace in Laboratory, Uses Personal Computer. Screen Shows Analyze of DNA. I the Background Genetics Research Centre with Innovative Equipment.[/caption] A sudden rule change by the Australian […] … learn more→

Eighteen months of working from home. Or WFH, WTF!! as you will now hear me say. Often. I want to WAW (work at work). I’m not desperate about it yet, but I really do miss WAW. Pre pandemic, a whole lifetime ago it seems but really only eighteen months, it was different. Working at work […] … learn more→

European countries have been asked to focus on “ensuring the right of children to be involved in all decisions that affect them”, in a newly released report ahead of the school year in Europe. The report — from the “High-level meeting on schooling during the COVID-19 pandemic” held in July — states “very few governments” have made […] … learn more→

The nature and enforceability of university codes of conduct have been in the news lately. Prominent sackings for alleged misconduct include the cases of Professors Peter Ridd from James Cook University and Tim Anderson from the University of Sydney. Anderson had a legal win this week when the full court of the Federal Court decided Sydney’s enterprise agreement contains […] … learn more→

In an effort to curtail how much time young people spend playing video games, China has banned students from playing them during the school week and limits them to just one hour per day on Fridays, weekends and holidays. The new rule took effect Sept. 1, 2021. From my standpoint as a video game designer and scholar […] … learn more→

What is digital education? Is it gaining a lot of attention? Do you need to start studying digital? Where can you study it? Does this mean you have to ditch your traditional studies? If all these questions pop into your mind, you’re on the right track. It is absolutely necessary that you know all these […] … learn more→

As President Joe Biden oversaw the transfer of the remains of the U.S. soldiers killed in a suicide bomb attack at Afghanistan’s Kabul airport on Aug. 26, 2021, former Education Secretary Arne Duncan took to Twitter. Appearing to weigh in on the controversy over mask mandates in public schools, Duncan compared “anti-mask and anti-vax people” with “the suicide bombers at […] … learn more→

Australian schools are struggling to recruit and keep teachers. Low wages, overwork, difficult student behaviour, lack of support and stress are some of the reasons teachers leave the profession or have periods of sick leave. More than half of teachers with a current teaching qualification are not working in education. States such as New South Wales are facing major difficulties in […] … learn more→

It has been 10 years since E.L. James decided to self-publish her first novel, Fifty Shades of Grey. The plot of the story centres on a college student who enters a relationship with a wealthy businessman involving BDSM practices — bondage, dominance/submission, sadism/masochism —  and becomes his submissive. The story was first developed as a fan-fiction project […] … learn more→