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Why aren’t our schools improving? It’s a question that is asked again and again. But we do know why, and we do have ideas for how to improve the sector. In our new series, based on essays from a new book, Educating Australia: Challenges for the Decade Ahead, we’ll explore and offer ideas for improving outcomes in areas such as assessment, teacher retention, disengaged students, and many others.

And more than 40% of Australian employees are working more hours a week than the national standard 38. A new study shows our culture of working longer is not only bad for mental health but it also exacerbates gender inequality.

Claire Shaw

Education Editor

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Educating Australia – why our schools aren't improving

Tom Bentley, RMIT University; Glenn C. Savage, University of Melbourne

Despite significant reform agendas over the past decade, no real progress in outcomes has been achieved.

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    TV shows such as Versailles and Reign dwell on sex. But the French royals were preoccupied with life's intimate moments, from bodily emissions to the crowds that gathered to watch the queen give birth.

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    Liz Giuffre, University of Technology Sydney

    In a universe of infinite possibility, why is Doctor Who always a man? Peter Capaldi's forthcoming retirement from the role means it's surely time to hand the sonic screwdriver over to a woman.

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