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Why education departments should be broken up

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Education has emerged as an important election issue. As always, people are arguing about how much money should be spent on it. But should funding really be at the heart of the debate?

Australia already spends lots of money on education. National...

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Speaking with: John Hattie on how to improve the quality of education in Australian schools

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imageSmaller class sizes do not make a difference the quality of education.from www.shutterstock.com

Do we actually know what works when it comes to improving the quality of education in schools?

A new four-part ABC documentary series, Revolution School, looks at what the research tells us about what works in education – and what doesn’t. It...

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VIDEO: The five greatest Scorsese scenes – episode #5 Goodfellas

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imageStill from Goodfellas, 1990

Martin Scorsese is widely considered to be one of the best living film directors. As a major retrospective of his work opens at ACMI, film scholar Bruce Isaacs dissects five classic Scorsese scenes.

In episode five, Isaacs analyses two related but very different scenes: the famous Copacabana Steadicam tracking shot from...

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