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Dance and cook your way to uni
TOP marks in cooking and dance could help West Australian students into university law degrees More >

Media and Technology

Laptops, iPods: are they friend or fiend?
Some schools embrace technology while others still need convincing.
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Bombarded by Barbie
With media messages more subtle and ubiquitous than ever before, simply turning off the TV set is no longer a solution. Instead a growing number of educators and activists say the answer is "Media literacy" -- teaching young people to recognize and understand the images they see onscreen. More >

Parents perceive greater threat on adolescents' values from media than from peers
Parents feel a greater threat to their adolescent child's values from the media than from peers, and are therefore more controlling in response to these influences than to peer influences, according to a new study. More >