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In July and August, Citrix conducted a national survey with 500 parents of Australian school children to capture their opinions as their households adapted to education technology, in order to facilitate learning from home in the midst of the COVID-19 ...

NSW services will get a cash boost worth more than $700 million to speed up the state’s transition into the digital age. Premier Gladys Berejiklian said her government would dip into the previously announced $1.6 billion Digital Restart Fund to ...

Australian schools are disproportionately dolling out expulsions and suspensions – and vulnerable student groups are hardest hit, researchers say. After auditing exclusionary policies and practices in Australian schools across 2019, University of South Australia researchers found that boys, Indigenous students, ...

A new program will help track suicides in real time, allowing schools, health workers and departments to track any worrying trends. Close to 700 people took their own lives in NSW between January 1 and the end of September this year, ...

“How can it be ethical to teach a program in schools that has not been rigorously evaluated?” This is one of the questions two academics posed as they argued that education research should be held to a higher standard, closer ...

A teenage boy has been arrested over an alleged “copycat” email threat that forced hundreds of students to evacuate a boys’ school in Sydney’s north. The boy is accused of sending a threatening email to North Sydney Boys school just days after dozens of ...

The University of the Sunshine Coast (USC) is expecting a record number of students from its postgraduate education program to graduate over the next two years as Australia braces for a looming shortage of teachers. Dr Susan Simon, USC’s deputy ...

Cyberbullying is the biggest challenge to building social cohesion at schools, principals say. Nearly half of the 91 principals and assistant principals surveyed by Monash and Deakin University researchers said it was the biggest issue confronting students, while 60 per ...

“Look, why don’t you ask your teacher?” It was the exasperated lament of generations of parents frustrated by the endless and incessant questioning of their own children as they navigated homework, or even as they just wondered something banal out ...

Teachers are concerned the future of Australia’s arts and entertainment industry looks bleak as theatre courses are cut across the country. Triggered by staff redundancies and course cuts due to the COVID-19 pandemic, two well-regarded theatre and drama degrees have ...