Education Podcast

Making the leap from primary school to secondary school is a big change for both students and parents. Do you remember what it was like for you? Were you apprehensive or were you raring to go? How did you feel going from one teacher, one room, to navigating a huge maze of classrooms, teachers and protocols?

Late on Monday afternoon, tertiary education minister Chris Evans responded to a review of higher education funding.

This week many students from remote parts of Australia will be starting at boarding school.

As schools prepare for the new year, remote teachers in the Northern Territory have been in Darwin, getting briefed for their stay in bush schools.

The Hobbit is the blockbuster film of the summer. But before there was a film, there was a book and before there was a book, there was Norse mythology, Beowulf, Germanic goblins and a nostalgic view of England.

Australia has 39 full universities and over 130 other higher education providers. So how are they going? Is there a crisis in higher education? Well, they are costing more and there are more students and graduates tend to get high wages BUT not all of them are paying off their HECS debt and not all of them are enjoying their university experience.

Aussie English is some of the most creative and inventive in the world and while some might say it has been all but drowned out by American English, there are still a range of words and phrases you'll hear regularly in Australia but nowhere else.

In the final conversation in this series, Clive James and Peter Porter discuss the 19th century, the age of romanticism and the age of nationalism.

Harriet and Helena Scott are two of Australia's most skilled natural history artists. They became the pre-eminent illustrators of flora and fauna in late 19th century Australia, and in 1868, they were awarded honorary membership to the NSW Entomological Society -- rare recognition for women in this period.

This week as you have probably heard, Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon, died aged 82. The moon landing was a costly and logistically amazing technological feat but did you know that the computers used by the Apollo mission had less processing power than the humble iPhone does today? Today we look at what effect smart phones in the hands of the public are having -- and will have -- on photojournalism. And photojournalists aren’t just under pressure from cameras being almost everywhere t...