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Enrolment ≠ Success: How Unis Are Beginning to Address the Student Retention Challenge
The fate of the ATAR score is out in the open at the Universities Australia 2016 conference in Canberra this week. Thankfully this discussion moves the focus from the “system” to real people: students as individuals with diverse, personal circumstances.
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Why Tutoring? And What Exactly is Online Tutoring, Anyway?
A couple of weeks ago a book entitled Why Tutoring? arrived at our offices. Written by Andrea Nelson-Royes, Why Tutoring? is a comprehensive analysis...
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To Fan The Flames Of Learning, Start With Ember.js
As an education technology company, we strive to make student outcomes better through the best use of technology. To support this, our service has...
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Adam Goodes: "If I'm Only Remembered For My Football, I've Failed In Life"
The escalating national argument about Adam Goodes continues to trouble me and just about everyone I speak with. The one missing voice is, of course,...
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Adam Goodes Deserves Better
The treatment of Australian of the Year Adam Goodes by some AFL fans is something we feel compelled to address. We at YourTutor feel a particular affinity for Goodes because of his…
Homework Help - The Australian Way
If you watched Foreign Correspondent's recent story about the pressure under which South Korean students suffer when studying for exams, it's hard not to be discouraged. The disenc…
University Students As Stars: How To Prevent Them Fading Before It's Too Late
Timing is everything to prevent students dropping out of their first year uni course, according to British university studies. So we're asking, when exactly is "just-in-time"?
Three Ways To Inspire Your Children's Writing
With WriteOn 2015 - the creative writing competition for primary school students in NSW - announced, now seems like the perfect time to talk about how best to inspire your young ch…
What's the deal with Adventure Time? A parents guide
Adventure Time is one of the most popular cartoons out there. But does it teach good lessons, or is it just the fast-food of the television world?
What's the deal with Minecraft? A parents guide
A classic videogame by any metric, Minecraft has the added bonus of it being a constructive, thoughtful game suitable for all ages. Minecraft is essentially lego, allowing players …
YouTube is 10 years old. Here are 3 reasons why you should care
It was ten years ago that YouTube’s transparency, accessibility, and personalisation made you - customers, students, voters – more powerful.
Why we need to give students reasons NOT to cheat
In the wake of student expulsions from several universities, Jack Goodman examines motivations for cheating, and alternative solutions.
Why our universities need to speed up the inevitable
There is a close association between the dramatic savings universities can achieve using new technologies, and the desire to reduce the cost of higher education.