Canpus Desk : Parents and carers can have a big impact on their children’s education. By providing learning opportunities and support at home you can help encourage learning from an early age, right through to high school.Here are some fantastic literacy tips and inspiring ways parents and carers can be more involved in children’s learning.1. Make books importantTurn off the TV and devices and read for half an hour. Talk about what you are reading and/or read with your child,...
Campus Desk : The literacy and numeracy skills gained in early childhood set children up for life – so what can parents do at home to help their child get the best start? Marianne Stenger reports.A home environment that encourages learning is more important to student achievement than almost any other factor, but despite the importance of family involvement, few parents are aware of the impact they can have. A recent study published in the Journal of Early Childhood Research showed...
Campus Desk : Like adults, children use the news to learn about what’s happening in the world. But the circulation of misinformation, such as the recent spread of fake news about COVID-19 (the disease caused by coronavirus), blurs our understanding of events and issues.In 2017, we conducted the first nationally representative survey of how Australian children, aged eight to 16, consume news.We found children as young as eight are interested in news. But there are few news media designed specifically...
Marilyn Price-Mitchell, Ph.D :The goals of parents and schools are really the same – to develop and educate children. If...
Jim Taylor, Ph.D :To his credit, Davis Guggenheim’s new documentary Waiting for Superman has generated real buzz far outside the...
Campus Report :KUMON is a well-known Japanese method of solving mathematical problems for the children. The same method is now...
Obayedul Islam Rabbi :In modern times the importance of Digital Marketing for professionals is undeniable. It has now become an integral part of how a client or viewer perceives a professional. You can be a doctor, an engineer, a sports person, a writer, an actor, or from any other profession. Still, you will need digital marketing techniques to gain popularity and trust in your field of work.As you can see clearly, more and more people are quickly getting internet-enabled. This...
Omar Yasser Mallick :While preparing this commentary report, nearly 50,000 candidates appeared in the recent Bar Council Enrollment Exams 2020 held on 28th February this year and only 8764 candidates passed the exams for the purpose of being enrolled as a new advocate, according to survey report. Big claps for the successful candidate! Concurrently, it is noticeable that around 83 percent of the law students were unsuccessful to pass the enrollment examination. Now the question is — whom to blames,...
Christopher Bergland :Over 2,000 years ago in ancient Greece, Aristotle established the Peripatetic (“conversations while walking”) school in a multi-purpose...
Briana Mezuk, Ph.D :Practically daily, the news brings us some pretty unnerving headlines concerning the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak. Today my...
Tim Elmore :This past month, even more protestors got arrested by Hong Kong police. You likely saw the story on the news. But do you understand what’s really going on?Technically, Hong Kong belongs to China but is under an agreement called “One Country, Two Systems.” Mainland China is very authoritarian. Hong Kong is a semi-autonomous region and is supposed to enjoy democratic freedoms such as the right to vote, free speech, freedom of the press, and to conduct free enterprise.And...
Matthew Smith :Recently, there have been numerous stories in the mainstream media and on social media about the mental health...