Schools are online and many students may find this new learning environment challenging. But organising your time and taking effective notes can help students learn better.
- National Director, AVID Australia, Victoria University
If all you want to do is retain the information until tomorrow, cramming might help. But you will have forgotten it in a week.
Here are some strategies that can help boost both teachers’ and their students’ confidence in maths.
In determining a replacement for the ATAR, it will be essential to consider the impacts of any such change on the school and vocational education systems.
Understanding attention span and working memory capacity is important to learn how to take electronic notes more effectively.
We tend to lose almost 40% of new information within the first 24 hours of first reading or hearing it. However if we take notes effectively, we can retain and retrieve almost 100% of the information we receive.
For the next couple of months, young people across Australia will be sitting their final Year 12 examinations. For them, it’s the end of more than a decade of schooling looming large. Their soon to be…
Let’s be clear, anything that demystifies the complex processes of choosing and enrolling in tertiary education is a good thing. With this in mind, the Federal Government today launched the My University…
This week’s statement by Group of Eight universities on the potential consequence of lifting the cap on places at university allowing more “low performing” students to enter courses reads like a cautionary…
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