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A $10.6 million program to tackle cyber bullying will be rolled out in every Victorian public school. The initiative, called eSmart, will provide $2000 grants to all public schools and 300 non-government schools to implement strategies to address cyber bullying. ...

Research has identified a critical period in which young Australians are prone to putting on weight and, if they do, it is hard to shift. Melbourne's Murdoch Childrens Research Institute (MCRI) tracked the weight of more than 1500 young people ...

The ACT topped 15 of the 20 categories in the NAPLAN results released late last week, with Victorian and NSW schools sharing the other top ratings. The Northern Territory achieved the worst results, but former education minister Simon Crean stressed ...

Along with ads for the new VW, Diet Coke and Maltesers, Sydney cinemagoers were recently shown an advertisement for Newington College, a private boys’ school in Stanmore, Sydney. The 60 second ad slickly displayed still images of several students engaging ...

During morning roll-call students are asked to share an example of an event or encounter that went well the previous evening. The dialogue in Arthur Miller’s classic play, The Death of a Salesman is then analysed for unrealistic and inflexible ...

  Nestled in the shadows cast by twin desert hills, remote Parnngurr is the meeting of two distinct cultural worlds. Recently emerging from a long period of unbroken cultural and geographic isolation, the relatively untouched indigenous community is still coming ...

A house without books is like a room without windows, argued 19th Century education reformer Horace Mann. Imagine his argument against a school without books. But that’s exactly what some schools are now considering, as technology provides an alternative to ...

Principal support is one of the major factors influencing a teacher’s decision to undertake a postgraduate course. Further, a principal’s views and attitudes can influence the area of further study a teacher undertakes. Market research, undertaken on behalf of the ...

NAPLAN has missed the point and focused on the wrong end of analysis; My School is a big yawn and has not greatly influenced what happens in schools and the digital education revolution is having virtually no effect. You would ...

The NSW government has set a target to increase the percentage of 25 to 34 year olds in that state who hold a bachelor degree to 44 per cent by 2025, higher than the federal government’s target of 40 per ...