Science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) professions are still heavily male-dominated. Across all sectors, just over one in four STEM workers are women. The gender gap is even wider among students in post-secondary STEM courses. The STEM Equity Monitor reports: When considering university and VET together, in 2018 women comprised only 21% of total STEM course enrolments and […] … learn more→

Writing is a complex activity and this premise must be taken into account in the teaching and learning process of writing. Research on the didactics of written composition provides evidence about the difficulties of learners when they write and of teachers when they accompany them in this challenge, which must be shared . The objective, then, is to […] … learn more→

More Islamic-school students in years 11 to 12 are enrolled in science and maths than other students in Australia. In our study of Islamic-school students’ career aspirations, about 28% of our sample were enrolled in science compared to the national enrolment rate of about 18%. Maths enrolment rates were at around 26% for the Islamic senior […] … learn more→

Going to university is a momentous occasion and a significant milestone in your life. It’s exciting, and it’s a little bit scary all at once. There tends to be a lot of pressure placed on young people to decide if they’re going to university, what they’ll be studying, and which university they’ll choose.  You might […] … learn more→

Despite the many ways that COVID-19 has disrupted schools, the U.S. Department of Education will not give states a pass on giving standardized tests to students this year as it did in spring 2020. That’s according to new guidance the department issued Feb. 22. The guidance invites states to request waivers to shorten tests, give the tests in the […] … learn more→

As many have observed, the COVID-19 pandemic has laid bare many challenges that students face at school and higher education institutions. In South Africa, these relate particularly to inequalities arising from students’ diverse socioeconomic backgrounds. These inequalities account for the learning barriers and inability to learn effectively. Contributing to ineffective learning, research conducted in South Africa showed that a total of […] … learn more→

“She’s more crazy than she is female.” So declared a senior student in a furious critique of Sylvia Plath’s poetry. The classroom was entirely male, myself included. As the teacher, I mediated discussion but had come to expect opposition to conversations about gender in the all-boys’ Sydney private school. My research into the presumptive biases […] … learn more→

Imagine that you are meeting someone at home, and while you are waiting, something prompts you to go in and out to see if that person is coming. Only if you speak an Inuit language will you have a word – iktsuarpok – to express that feeling between anticipation and impatience. The writer and illustrator Ella Frances Sanders collects this […] … learn more→

What teacher has never encountered the sound of a jackhammer during their lesson? The effect is generally the same: we get annoyed and we plague, we look for the origin of the parasite, we can act on it (or not…). But, in normal times, everything ends up returning to order, and you can resume the course […] … learn more→

In January, UK education secretary Gavin Williamson announced that GCSE and A-level exams in England would not go ahead. Now, Williamson has outlined further information about how assessments for pupils will take place. Teachers’ judgements will be at the heart of grading decisions this year, based on a range of possible assessment methods including coursework, mock exams, essays […] … learn more→