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To improve dementia understanding, Australia needs to invest in the next generation. UniSA’s Dr Ashleigh Smith, a cognitive ageing expert, said this is because children are the nation’s future leaders, local shop keepers, bankers and neighbours. “Children generally don’t know ...

Everywhere I go I ask school leadership teams whether they are aware of the highest drivers of student achievement. The answers are usually varied, and even though most educators identify that the teacher/student relationship is important, what they sometimes don’t ...

The Catholic Opus Dei study centre linked to the coronavirus cluster at the Tangara School for Girls in Sydney's northwest has closed for deep cleaning. Eremeran Hills Study Centre in Pennant Hills is closed until further notice "because we have ...

The Nationals have formally pushed for changes to the government’s proposed university fee overhaul, saying there is a “glaring and potentially detrimental design flaw” in the plan. The Nationals party room on Monday agreed to press for changes to the ...

As schools in NSW continue to be linked to growing clusters of COVID-19 cases, the Independent Education Union is calling for the government to explicitly recommend that all staff and students in the state wear masks on school grounds. The ...

Students and teachers need more support from schools and policymakers to cope with traumatic events. The call, from University of Melbourne researchers, is contained within a new report which held the twin economic and health crisis – the catastrophic bushfires ...

Closer to burnout. Stressed. Anxious. The work never stops. These were some of the ways teachers described working during the COVID-19 pandemic in a new survey. A team of Australian and international researchers asked teachers and educators 16 open-ended questions ...

Prime Minister Scott Morrison and Indigenous leaders have announced 16 new Closing the Gap targets. The new agreement has the support of Australia's local, territory, state and federal government leaders. It's the first time the agreement has been developed with ...

A parliamentary inquiry has heard that no modelling was conducted to see if the plan to increase fees for humanities and arts-related degrees would influence students to take other courses in so-called in-demand fields.   The Education Department’s deputy secretary ...

A private school in Melbourne’s south-east has made headlines this week for asking students to only wear face masks in certain colours. In a July 22 video posted on the school’s social media sites and other communiques, executive principal of ...