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For Education Leaders

Use it or Lose it: The Human Brain will be Reshaped by AI

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The "use it or lose it" idea around brain function becomes particularly scary in 2025 when we look at generative Large Language Model (LLM) AIs like ChatGPT, Gemini, Llama, Grok, Deepseek, and hundreds of others that are improving and proliferating at astonishing rates. Among a thousand other uses, these AIs more or less allow you to start outsourcing thinking itself. Read more

‘Friend’ is Children’s Word of the Year

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Gen Alpha seems to value deeper connections with the people around them, despite being more digitally and globally connected than any other generation before.
Using data collected through the online program Writing Legends, Oxford University Press (OUP) named ‘friend’ as Oxford’s Australian Children’s Word of the Year (CWOTY) for 2024.
   Students are writing more about the value of their relationships. Read more

Money Matters for Student Achievement

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Increased funding for schools yields improvements in test scores, school completion, tertiary attainment, lifetime earnings, and other outcomes, concludes an in-depth review of research studies on the relationship between school expenditure and student outcomes.
   Spending on both current operations AND capital investment improve student outcomes. The benefits are particularly strong for low SES. Read more

For ALL women and girls: Rights. Equality. Empowerment - IWD, 2025

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Envision a classroom where a young girl pauses before raising her hand - not from a lack of knowledge, but from uncertainty about whether her voice holds the same value as others.
   Picture a gifted student who, despite her potential, veers away from a promising STEM career, simply because she’s been told that such paths are not “meant” for someone of her gender.
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Australia’s Next Gen Entrepreneurs Could Emerge from this School

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Arethusa College is defined by legislation as a “special assistance school”. That means they don’t charge tuition fees - only a small resource allowance if parents have the ability to pay.
   The team of dedicated teaching and support staff believe in the value and potential of every young person and shape school around their needs and interests to set them up for the future.
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Follow Passions to Access a STEM Career

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STEM is a big tent and given the random way in which careers tend to unfold even the most avowedly unsciency people can find their way into a STEM or STEM adjacent job.
There are many ways to access work around STEM but the main thing is to find an area that interests you, an interest that can grow into a passion and from there a career.
   The key is to reframe STEM as a tool for shaping the world, rather than just a subject to study. Read more