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Family decides to switch off screens

Technology & Digital Safety

You’ll spend 14 years of your life staring at a screen – not counting work

Modern parents are slaves to tech and will spend 14 years of their lives staring at phones, TVs and laptops. But some, like Eunice and Aujen Briones, are trying to break the habit.

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Early Education

Full list: The 37 Australian childcare centres that could lose funding

Eight more Australian childcare centres have been given up to 12 months to improve their standards or face losing government funding under tough new compliance legislation.

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PollSchools Hub

Parents of autistic kids say the education system is failing them

Many parents of autistic children want their kids educated in mainstream schools – but 80 per cent say there’s a chronic lack of support for special needs students.

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SA’s Education Standards Board issues emergency action notice to Little Shining Stars early learning centre at Virginia.

Vermin bait boxes, hygiene issues force closure of childcare centre

Alarming safety breaches have forced an Adelaide childcare centre to temporarily shut its doors. Find out what they were.

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Fears over primary schools shortage

Australia needs an extra 697 new primary schools to cope with expected demand between now and 2028, with fears a lack of both teachers and classrooms will put education quality at risk.

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CAREERS: Sarah Yates-Taylor works as an early childhood educator at Goodstart Clearview in South Australia. MUST CREDIT: Meaghan Coles

Centres scramble to meet new teacher ratios

From 2020, preschools, kindergartens and day care centres with 60 or more children must have two qualified early childhood teachers instead of one — but are there enough staff for the extra jobs?

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Calls for NAPLAN shake-up growing

Calls to review NAPLAN as Tasmanian students remain below the national average.

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Are you risking your child’s health over screen time?

Are you risking your child’s health over screen time?

Australian parents are ignoring recommended limits on devices, risking the future health of their children. Here’s how much screen time your kids should really have — and what happens if they have more.

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Kylie Capron shows off a picture of her daughter Ruby,11, when she was a toddler. The first generation of truly digital natives, dubbed Òscreenagers,Ó will graduate primary school this year but experts say technology is not necessarily making their lives easier. Picture: Jake Nowakowski

Screenagers face technology setbacks

They were born the year of the first iPhone and have spent their life on screens. Now — as this generation prepares to graduate from primary school — questions are being asked if technology is holding them back.

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Kids could become students at age 3

Kids could become students at age 3

Three-year-olds are at the centre of a seismic education shift experts believe holds the key to improving lives and lifting Australia’s poor global grades. Is three too young to start in the classroom? VOTE IN OUR POLL

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