Students struggle with digital skills because their teachers lack confidence
Mar 29, 2016 00:15 am UTC| Insights & Views Life
Australian teenagers are increasingly struggling to achieve the basic level required in information and communications technology (ICT). In 2014, only around half (52%) of students in Year 10 achieved the minimum standard...
Why do people risk their lives – or the lives of others – for the perfect selfie?
Mar 25, 2016 02:09 am UTC| Life
2016 hasnt been a great year for the selfie. In February, Argentinian tourists passed around a baby La Plata dolphin in order to take selfies with it. The endangered animal subsequently died from stress and heat...
Mar 25, 2016 02:04 am UTC| Insights & Views Life
Beginning in 2010, mathematics and English language arts standards, called the Common Core State Standards, were adopted in 45 of 50 U.S. states. The Common Core Standards represent a substantial change from what was in...
Western pastiche of Hindu colour festival ignores politics of pigment in India
Mar 25, 2016 01:44 am UTC| Life
The video for Hymn for the Weekend, Coldplays recent single, is full of colour. Purging Indias palette in a typically Western fashion, theres a bright yellow temple, billowing orange fabric, dazzling Krishna blue. Pink...
The very strange history of the Easter Bunny
Mar 25, 2016 01:29 am UTC| Life
While youre biting the heads off your chocolate bunnies this weekend, you might wonder how cartoon rabbits became so central to our Easter celebrations. Its tempting to assume that because theres no biblical basis for the...
Forced academisation by proxy: when schools have little choice but to convert
Mar 25, 2016 00:52 am UTC| Insights & Views Life
All schools in England that remain under local authority control are now living with the threat of being forced to become academies. As the mother of a child who attends a school that chose to become an academy, rather...
Why science and religion aren't as opposed as you might think
Mar 24, 2016 23:36 pm UTC| Life
The debate about science and religion is usually viewed as a competition between worldviews. Differing opinions on whether the two subjects can comfortably co-exist even among scientists are pitted against each other in...
Gabon: post-coup dialogue has mapped out path to democracy – now military leaders must act
IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects