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Editor's note
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When I was nearing my final year of high school, I had a meeting with my careers counsellor. He asked if I knew what I wanted to do with myself after school and I told him I was interested in teaching. He said given my good grades I should choose something with a higher ATAR, like journalism. Teaching is widely believed to be an important profession, but when it comes to our brightest students taking it up, it is consistently undervalued. And that includes by young people themselves.
A new survey by the Grattan Institute spoke to 950 young people with an ATAR over 80, and found while many were interested in teaching, they instead chose careers they thought were better paid and more of a challenge.
This is an issue for the future of education in this country, write Pete Goss and Julie Sonnemann. Here they outline why, and detail a plan to get our highest achievers into teaching.
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Alexandra Hansen
Chief of Staff
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Top story
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Relative to other careers, bright students who were surveyed didn’t see teaching as coming with career challenges.
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Peter Goss, Grattan Institute; Julie Sonnemann, Grattan Institute
Our top-scoring students aren't choosing to become teachers, and that has flow-on effects for the students who come after them.
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Huge fires are raging across multiple regions of the Amazon Basin.
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Danilo Ignacio de Urzedo, University of Sydney
The Amazon is burning at record levels, and land clearing is to blame. The good news: we already know what we need to do to stop it.
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New attitudes show periods might finally be coming of age.
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Lara Owen, Monash University
A new advertising campaign for pads that features blood marks a moment when new attitudes to menstruation are gaining traction.
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International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, which won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1985, is one example of doctors’ involvement on the political stage.
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James Dunk, University of Sydney
Doctors have long taken up global issues, from nuclear war to ozone depletion and climate change, and helped shift the course of history.
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Politics + Society
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Elyse Methven, University of Technology Sydney
Similar laws in the US have actually led to increasing the risk of fatal drug overdoses.
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Julia Talbot-Jones, Victoria University of Wellington
The idea that a small payment could motivate more people to vote resurfaces regularly, but this ignores evidence that monetary incentives to induce pro-social behaviour can be counterproductive.
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Michelle Grattan, University of Canberra
Michelle Grattan reflects on Tim Fischer's personal and political legacy, and discusses the kind of leader Scott Morrison is with the anniversary of his prime ministership approaching on Saturday.
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Tony Press, University of Tasmania
‘Dual use’ technology – technology used for both peaceful and military purposes – is allowed in Antarctica, according to the treaty.
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Holly Lawford-Smith, University of Melbourne
The Victorian parliament should delay its vote on the birth certificate reform bill to allow more consultation with women's groups and to assess the potential impact on single-sex spaces.
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Science + Technology
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David Evans Bailey, Auckland University of Technology
The quest for immortality is as old as humanity itself, but the prospect of being able to copy the neural networks of a person's brain shifts the pursuit of perpetual life into the digital world.
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Cities
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Carl Grodach, Monash University; Chris Gibson, University of Wollongong; Justin O'Connor, University of South Australia
Rezoning to mixed-use residential development drove small manufacturers and creative producers out of the inner city. The result is less diversity of land uses, jobs and services where we most want it.
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Health + Medicine
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Sean Docking, La Trobe University; Ebonie Rio, La Trobe University; Jill Cook, La Trobe University
Achilles tendon pain is surprisingly common in people over the age of 50. Strength training can help you recover and protect against future injury.
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Environment + Energy
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Bruce Mountain, Victoria University
The likelihood of half of Victoria being plunged into blackout are low – but the question reveals growing tension between the energy market and its regulators.
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Gabriel Crowley, James Cook University; Noel D Preece, James Cook University
Six months after huge floods swept Queensland we can start to appreciate the huge effect they had on native species.
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Business + Economy
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Tim Harcourt, UNSW
Former Austrade chief economist Tim Harcourt reflects on the quirky and kind Tim Fischer.
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Emma Willamson, Monash University
If we really want to close the gender pay gap, we need to talk about traps we fall into at home.
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