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High schools 'too crowded'

QUEENSLAND'S public education system is bursting at the seams, with one in 10 Brisbane high schools overcrowded or nearing capacity.

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Daycare checks to fight obesity

COMPULSORY health checks at daycare centres will be considered to target Queensland's spiralling obesity epidemic, Health Minister Stephen Robertson says.

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Action plan: User pays for lifestyle choices

Mag code bans thin models

MAGAZINES will have to feature normal-sized models and confess when photographs have been airbrushed under a national fashion industry code of conduct.

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Use the News

READING the news improves reading and comprehension and sharpens thinking skills so here's a daily worksheet to use in the classroom.

Education Kits for sale

Don't miss out.
Order now. See order form in The Courier-Mail. 2008 Festive Kit available online now.

Young Reviewer awards

The Courier-Mail Young Reviewer of the Year for 2008 is Zoe Coleman of Year 6, Camp Hill State School. Zoe has won books to the value of $1500.

About Headst@rt

Headst@rt is a four page educational lift out in The Courier-Mail every Tuesday. The Headst@rt pages are written for teachers, students and parents.

Book Bytes

Make Book Bytes the site to check out new books, great reads and author sites.We would love to know what you are reading and to spread the word around.

Current affairs – ttn

Check Headstart every Tuesday for exciting activities linked to ttn - a half-hour TV current events program for students at 11.30am every Tuesday on Channel 10.

Scientists plea on emissions

AN Australian scientist who led the UN investigation of climate change has joined 15 of his colleagues in urging Kevin Rudd to cut carbon emissions by 25 per cent.

Stick to science in classrooms

SOME academics (Paul Williams, View Point, September 23) don't give the whole story when they insist only one view of science/origins should be taught in the classroom.

Classroom science battle

FEW would be aware this year marks 150 years since the theory of evolution or, more precisely, natural selection was published.

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The AVENUE of SPHINXES is one of Egypt's most famous national treasures at the Temple of Luxor. Now, they've discovered a new temple to the Pharoh Ramses. | Ancient Egyptian culture and icons

SINCE technology allowed us to look out into and back from space, photography has recorded some amazing images of our world and space beyond.
Here's a gallery of pictures showing everythign from stellar winds and the surface of Mars to this the Eskimo Nebula.

You may be surprised to find that the Gateway Bridge is held up largely by wire. In our Brisbane Bridges feature, Gateway duplication constuction manager (structures) Peter Rotolone explains the physics of building a cantilever bridge. And try your hand at building the Story Bridge in a digital puzzle game. Bridge to Brisbane special

EXPLORE some of the research surrounding the issues of teaching the "plugged in" generation who think they can learn while they text and play games. What's more important than being connected?
Being meaningfully connected - whether by internet,
phone or post.