Category: General interest
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Oxford resources shortlisted in Educational Publishing Australia Awards
Oxford resources have been resources shortlisted in Primary, Secondary and Tertiary categories of the Educational Publishing Awards Australia (EPAA). Organised by the Australian Publishers Association and sponsored by the Copyright Agency, the prestigious EPAAs recognise excellence and innovation within the educational publishing industry. We congratulate all who were involved in publishing the shortlisted resources across the…
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Kvetching about time – what it is and why the wealthy are more prone to doing it
An excerpt from Spending Time – The Most Valuable Resource by Daniel Hamermesh. Daniel will be appearing at the UNSW Bookshop at 2pm today. Kvetch, a Yiddish word now widely used in English, means “to complain or gripe habitually.” And a favorite complaint is that someone is stressed for time. One definition of stress is…
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Oxford Australia to help the Federal Government adapt its language for the digital age
A lot has changed since the Australian Government last updated its Style Manual in 2002. In the same year, Silverchair dominated the ARIA Awards, while Kylie’s Can’t Get You Out of My Head was the highest selling single. We now live in a far more digital world — not just in the music industry —…
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Oxford Australia launches search for the Children’s Word of the Year
Will Australian primary school students prove as politically aware as their UK counterparts? Oxford Australia has launched its search for the Oxford Australian Children’s Word of the Year. Primary school-aged children across Australia are invited to nominate their ‘Word of the Year’ and submit a short piece of free writing based on that word. The…
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Girls are dropping out of sport – what can educators, parents and communities do about it?
Article first appeared in Education Review. By Teaching Health and Physical Education author Natalie McMaster There are a myriad of reasons why girls in Australia aged 15-17 may choose to quit sport. They may find that the values of sport participation are not meaningful for them. They may lack the necessary knowledge and skills to…
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Word of the Month – June: mud map
noun: (in figurative use) a rough guide, plan, or strategy. Making a mud map is an activity with a long history in Australia. The term is first recorded in 1879, although the act of drawing a simple map on the ground is no doubt much older. The literal, map-in-the-dust sense is alive and well in…
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Celebrating the 600th title in the Very Short Introduction series: Reading
“We want to believe we are more than our brains. Are we? One of the reasons we continue to enjoy reading contemporary novels is that this is one of many compelling questions that they explore, because certain kinds of reading are above all a stimulus for our own minds. There is a tension or at…
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Serial Offenders? The troubles and triumphs of true crime podcasting
By Katrina Clifford and Rob White. Learn more about the new edition of Crime, Criminality and Criminal Justice, authored by Rob White, Santina Perrone and Loene Howes. Podcasts about true crime have emerged as the new best sellers of crime media. The annual podcast survey by the ABC reveals the surge in popularity, with 44%…