Schools teach academic skills - but they are also sites of learning about tolerance and hate. Embedding queer texts in the English curriculum could lessen gender-based bullying and affect real social change, write experts from the University of
Pharmacies provide essential services and will remain open but some people will still have problems accessing medicines during new restrictions introduced due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Associate Professor Nial Wheate and Dr Andrew Bartlett write
7 tips for preparing children for school. 19 January 2017. From dealing with anxious kids or those more gifted, to the power of reading: University of Sydney health and education experts share their tips to help parents and teachers kick off the new
The Federal Budget 2017 was all about the government driving infrastructure provisions while the private sector took the back seat. Garry Bowditch writes in the Australian Financial Review.
We should learn to love germs. 13 September 2016. Should Australia follow the lead of the US and ban the use of anti-bacterial compounds? Can we learn to love germs instead of fearing them? Dr Nicholas Coleman, microbiologist from the University of
University of Sydney researchers believe the COVID-19 pandemic is a double crisis affecting public health and the economy with both aspects playing out in our housing system.
Seventeen at Belvoir – a brilliant theatrical event with a happy, hetero ending. 14 August 2015. "As a gay man watching the play’s ending, I felt I’d seen this story too many times to feel part of its investments in the future," writes Dr Huw
Dale Dominey-Howes, Professor of Hazard and Disaster Risk Sciences at University of Sydney, explains how climate change is exacerbating every risk factor for more frequent and intense bushfires. Read more.
This opinion piece by Dr Christopher Hunt, a clinical psychologist in the University of Sydney’s School of Psychology, first appeared in The Conversation this month. .