Bright young South Australians call for focus on health
South Australia’s rising star school students are urging a health system fix, amid a final call-out to be part of the Teen Parliament event.
Tertiary
Adelaide Uni wants you to eat insects
Move over meat and three veg, these researchers want to put a lot more on the menu. But they need your feedback. So how do you like your ants, worms and crickets?
School’s just a hop, skip and five day journey away
As messy as the start of this school year is proving to be, spare a thought for Pembroke boarder Lex Playford, who is on a four-day journey from remote SA.
Class of 2022: Meet SA’s new school bosses
Principals are crucial to what makes the best schools tick. And SA has lots of new ones. Get to know them in this roundup of the SA’s latest crop of school bosses.
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Why Aussies wish they had traded up
Almost a quarter of Australians would train in a trades or services role if they could “go back to high school and start again”, while less than a third would opt for uni.
Bachelor gets uni students hot for science
The powers that be have been trying to get people interested in science and maths careers for years — all they really needed was a sexy, single astrophysicist on TV.
Australia’s booming overseas student number revealed
Australia’s intake of foreign students is up to seven times larger than other nations, making it one of the highest in the world, a new report has found.
New way to be master of your destiny
Postgraduate study is opening up to Australians without a university degree with wider recognition of the knowledge and experience would-be students bring from the workplace.
Regional students get cash lure to study at uni
Taxpayers would fork out for regional parents to visit their kids at university and country students would get cash payments under a radical plan to halt shocking drop out rates.
Uni students increasingly ditching gap year
Students are ditching a full gap year and heading back in droves to start their studies mid-year.
Tradies’ lifelong earnings higher than many uni grads’
Studying at university may seem like a wise career move but the reality is many graduates are finishing their degrees with a large HECS debt and losing out financially compared with school leavers who embarked on a trade.
How our schools are failing kids
Schools are failing to prepare Australian students for university and the jobs of the future as literacy and numeracy skills face “sharp falls”, the Productivity Commission has found.
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