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Schools ‘more vulnerable' than companies to cyber attacks

The Educator speaks to cybersecurity experts to see how principals can defend schools in the midst of a global cyberwar

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Australia-first program boosts cyber awareness

A unique program will address the cyber skills gap by providing cyber security education to all Year 7-10 students for the first time
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Opinion: Why school phone bans don’t work

Recently some schools have been trialling a ban of all phones when students are at school in order to bolster cyber security and lessen online bullying
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China tests essay-marking robots in secret

Extensive testing of an essay-grading AI machine in schools has been carried out in an unusually hushed manner

Give students extra hour of sleep – experts

The start of the school day should be moved later, bringing them in line with teenagers’ biological rhythms, a growing body of research says
Boys and girls equally confident at single-sex schools – study

New research has found no significant differences in self-confidence between girls and boys in gender-segregated high schools
Print textbooks vs screens: What the research says

Many schools are going ‘paperless’ in favour of e-books, yet research shows that students learn more effectively from print textbooks than screens