The Odyssey Program: In School Workshops For Adolescent Boys
Saturday, March 17, 2012 
The Odyssey Program is here to help Australian teenage boys become the best men they can be!
The Program visits secondary schools with a fun and engaging day of workshops jam-packed with information and activities guaranteed to have everyone thinking a little differently. (Teachers included!)
Our passionate aim is to challenge adolescent males to open up and discuss issues that affect them all.
ABS Releases Gender Indicators and Ignores Male Disadvantage
Tuesday, February 7, 2012 Today the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS), Australia's so-called impartial statistical body released its Gender Indicators report: "a summary of gender specific data in six domains representing Economic security, Education, Health, Work and family balance, Safety and justice, and Democracy, governance and citizenship".
The ABS produced a media release about the publication. This release could have noted that:
- Across the board males fare much worse than females in the education system - most notably being 24% less likely to be enrolled in a bachelor degree or above
- Across the board males fare much worse than females in the health arena - most notably suffering death rates from cancer, heart disease, suicide, motor vehicle accidents and drug abuse between 1.6 and 3.4 times higher
- Males are 12% more likely than females to feel their work and family responsibilities are rarely/ never in balance
- Males are almost twice as likely as females to have experienced violence during the last 12 months and one third more likely to be a victim of physical or threatened physical assault.
However, these facts were conveniently ignored in favour of a media release titled "Busy mums want more paid work," citing the rate of underemployment being twice as high for women (8%) than for men (4%). Sadly it seems that the lace curtain extends all the way into our country's top statistical body.
Gareth Malone's Extraordinary School for Boys (UK)
Thursday, January 26, 2012 
About The Program
Choirmaster Gareth Malone teaches in a primary school in Essex for one term. It is a school like many across Britain, with a significant gap between girls' and boys' achievement in literacy. Last week we saw Gareth and the boys tree-climbing and sharpening their speaking skills with a debate. This time Gareth faces a new mission: to get the boys reading.
Schoolboys thrive on risk at recess
Friday, October 21, 2011 
FOR generations children have complained that school can be cruel and unusual punishment. Now it seems some headmasters are listening, introducing more breaks during the school day and explicitly recognising the value of running wild.
John Stewart, the headmaster of Tudor House, a private boys' school at Moss Vale, is adding an extra recess to the day with classroom doors locked to push boys to push the limits.
''For boys to be sitting in a classroom, contained behind a desk for hours on end, just skilling and drilling that can help you improve in a test score, is not only archaic, it is cruel. We felt boys needed more time to play and that social and emotional learning is just as important as reading and writing skills.''
Male teacher numbers falling over abuse and pay concerns
Thursday, September 22, 2011 FEAR of being accused of child sex crimes and higher pay in non-government schools are being blamed for a 4 per cent fall in the number of men teaching in NSW public schools.
While the number of male teachers in private schools has risen 20 per cent, government schools are suffering a lack of men.The "alarming" figures contained in a Social Trends report released yesterday by the Australian Bureau of Statistics were damned by the NSW Federation of Parents and Citizens Associations.