Author: Oxford Australia
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OUP wins third consecutive Secondary Publisher of the Year Award
Oxford University Press Australia & New Zealand (OUP ANZ) has received a third consecutive award for Secondary Publisher of the Year at the 2019 Educational Publishing Awards Australia. Oxford’s new-generation digital reading service Oxford Reading Buddy won the Primary Adaptations, Student or Teaching Resource award, and Oxford also won several awards across the Primary, Secondary…
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Read Write Inc. gains national media attention for its impact on literacy at an NT school
The Read Write Inc. program has been credited for turning students at Tennant Creek Primary School into confident and fluent readers. In an ABC News report, students and teachers spoke about the impact the program had made on their confidence and ability since its introduction last year. The Year 5 students even used their newly…
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There is still value in learning the times tables, even in the smartphone era
By Brian Murray, co-author of Oxford Mathematics At the start of trivia night I recently attended, the organisers requested that all participants’ smartphones should be switched off. This was not because the phones might cause a disturbance, but because those running the quiz could not trust us to resist the temptation to cheat. In this,…
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Word of the Month – September: burnt chop syndrome
noun: (esp. of a woman) the practice or habit of taking the least attractive item or option; the practice or habit of putting the needs and desires of others ahead of one’s own. Several years ago an Australian journalist described the experience of playing Monopoly with her family: ‘My brothers fought over the racing car…
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What the Children’s Word of the Year reveals about the lives of kids in Australia and the UK
What do the words Trump, equality, plastic and creativity have in common? They have all been named Children’s Word of the Year in competitions run by Oxford University Press in the UK and Australia in recent years. The words reveal that children are in touch with the current affairs and social issues of their time,…
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Celebrating Book Week with the books that have changed us
Books have a unique power to change people’s attitudes, and even their lives. This was never clearer than in the wake of the death of great American storyteller Toni Morrison, when writers and readers spoke out about the role that her books played in their lives. Among them, Australian authors Maxine Beneba Clarke and Melissa…
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Introducing the Oxford School Partnerships Program, fostering strong relationships between Oxford University Press and Australian schools
Blog post by Sophie Rasic, Primary Publishing, Editorial & Research Coordinator Introducing the Oxford School Partnerships Program, fostering strong relationships between Oxford University Press and schools in Australia Oxford University Press Australia and New Zealand (OUP) has launched a new partnership program to formalise our relationship with a number of schools as a part of…
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The extraordinary life of a long-forgotten scientific genius
By Thomas Harriot: A Life in Science author Robyn Arianrhod The enigmatic Elizabethan Thomas Harriot never published his scientific work, so it’s no wonder that few people have heard of him. His manuscripts were lost for centuries, and it’s only in the past few decades that scholars have managed to trawl through the thousands of…