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Youth survey 2014
This survey finds that young Australians are struggling to cope with stress as they strive to achieve their goals in life.
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Monitoring teacher supply 2014
The annual Survey of Staffing provides the Ministry of Education with a snapshot of the number of entitlement staffing vacancies at the start of Term 1. The survey also collects information about the number of overseas-trained and beginning teachers employed by schools. In 2014, the survey was completed by 92% of all state and state-integrated...
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Australian teachers and the learning environment: an analysis of teacher response to TALIS 2013
The OECD Teaching and Learning International Survey (TALIS) is the first international survey programme to focus on the learning environment and the working conditions of teachers in schools. The overarching aim of TALIS is to provide robust, policy relevant indicators and analysis on teachers and the learning environment for an international audience. It aims to...
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Support in tough times: encouraging young people to seek help for their friends
Adolescence and early adulthood is the peak age of onset for many mental disorders, yet this age group is less likely than others to seek professional help. Young people instead prefer to turn to informal sources of support such as family and friends. As friends become increasingly important during adolescence, a friend is often the...
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Equity in Australian schooling: an update
This paper uses data from the My School website to explore some indicators of change in the equity of schools since the evidence on which the Gonski panel based its findings about school funding and inequality was obtained. At the time of writing there is a bare three years since the release of the Gonski...