[IA] News
Single-sex
New research about risk taking and competition in an all-girls’ school shows that girls from single-sex schools are more competitive than their co-ed peers. The study by US researchers, titled ‘Risk taking and competition in an all-girls’ school’, found that female students from a single-sex school are more competitive than…
STEM
Education in the areas of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) is undoubtedly important, in fact crucial, to Australia’s future industries and subsequent economy. Innovation and growth in industries such as defence, space and advanced manufacturing will lead to significant job growth and present exciting employment opportunities for both men…
Academics
A Taiwanese study has found that girls in single-sex high schools have a greater propensity to choose the science curriculum track in the their senior years than girls attending co-educational high schools, and that this effect is even greater for girls with top maths ability. Research by Xunfei Li and…
