Keep calm, big school is coming
Professor Bob Perry from the School of Education at CSU in Albury-Wodonga is encouraging parents to use the next couple of weeks to help prepare their child socially and emotionally for starting primary school.
"Parents...
Beat the heat and stay healthy
With the mercury rising over summer, Charles Sturt University (CSU) lecturer, Mr Joe Acker has some advice for staying healthy and safe in the heat.
Mr Acker, who is a senior lecturer in paramedics based...
Prepping your Preppie for the start of their school life
With a new school year set to start, Professor Christine Ure, Head of School in the Faculty of Arts and Education, has some timely words of advice for parents of prep children.
Professor Ure explained...
Free online healthy lifestyle program – PEACH – has been launched
The online version of the Queensland Government-funded PEACH (Parenting, Eating and Activity for Child Health) program will be offered as an alternative format to face-to-face sessions and will feature 10 interactive sessions, a parent...
Pedestrian safety promoted through animation
Victoria Police and RMIT animation students have collaborated on a campaign to promote pedestrian safety in Melbourne’s east, creating three short films targeted at the young and the elderly.
RMIT lecturers Aaron McLoughlin and Simon...
Importance of universal newborn hearing screening
The findings from the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute study have demonstrated the success of universal newborn hearing screening (UNHS). Researchers found that hearing loss was detected on average eight months earlier in children who...
Australia’s attitude problem to maths
A new report revealing literacy and numeracy deficiencies in Australian workplaces highlights the need to change our attitude to mathematics, according to a leading educator from Western Sydney University.
Associate Professor Catherine Attard from the...
What are the risks of giving birth inside and outside a hospital setting?
A new study looks at mother and baby outcomes, opening the doors for integrating maternal care system.
The out-of-hospital birth setting in Oregon was associated with a higher risk of perinatal death, while the in-hospital...
Mothers-to-be and babies benefit from group prenatal care
Group prenatal care can substantially improve health outcomes for both mothers and their infants, a new study led by the Yale School of Public Health has found.
The paper was published online Dec. 17 in...
Infertility treatments do not appear to contribute to developmental delays in children
Children conceived via infertility treatments are no more likely to have a developmental delay than children conceived without such treatments, according to a study by researchers at the National Institutes of Health, the New...
