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Queensland schools will only open for the children of essential workers, while others students will work from home for the first five weeks of term two. Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk said the “very difficult decision” was the right one for Queensland. ...

Think you’ve got it tough sitting at home watching the news, rationing toilet paper and worrying about the future? Try being a current Queensland year 12 student.  If you are one of the state’s 50,000+ year 12 students, you must ...

Victorian students will be encouraged to learn from home when Term 2 starts next week. In a statement, Premier Daniel Andrews gave a clear message to students and parents at government schools: all children who can learn at home must ...

Last week, the NSW Education Standards Authority (NESA) announced that the 2020 HSC would go ahead despite disruptions caused by COVID-19, and today it has revealed some changes to student requirements. The group already announced that principals have the power ...

Many Australian schools are now experiencing the reality of school closures and remote learning measures for many weeks or even months to come. They will need to assess whether their current infrastructure can support scalable remote earning.                                                                                                           With students ...

Australia's Year 12 students face an uncertain future with national educators unable to agree on the make-up of end of year exams amid the COVID-19 crisis. The National Education Council involving education ministers for all states and territories said the ...

Teachers need to be involved in classroom design to improve student learning outcomes, researchers say. Monash University researchers looked at more than 8000 peer-reviewed research articles and found school leaders were alienated from the classroom design process and teachers weren’t ...

Community angst, concern and stockpiling in the wake of COVID-19 hasn’t been pleasant. One positive, however, is a renewed emphasis on good hygiene and how washing your hands can help prevent germs from spreading. We all need to learn and ...

NAPLAN tests have been cancelled this year due to COVID-19. Australia's education ministers met via video link today and later announced that the decision to scrap NAPLAN in 2020 was taken “to assist school leaders, teachers and support staff to ...

A West Australian maths teacher has been shortlisted for an international US$1m prize. Ashley Stewart, from Newton Moore Senior High School in Bunbury, was named in the top 50 of the Varkey Foundation Global Teacher Prize 2020, run in partnership ...