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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 ...

Schools in Australia will remain open for the foreseeable future amid the coronavirus crisis, with governments heeding advice that closing them would have dire consequences. But Prime Minister Scott Morrison said the nation's top medical officers and leaders are constantly ...

Non-government schools don't bring about the savings to the taxpayer that they're purported to. That’s the call from a group of Australian researchers following their analysis of My School website data. The team from the Universities of Sydney, Wollongong and ...

To get ahead of the game in controlling the spread of coronavirus, serious consideration should be given to closing all schools, a leading doctor says. President of the Australian Medical Association's Western Australia division Andrew Miller told reporters on Tuesday that ...

The travel ban for international excursions for Western Australian schools has been extended due to the spread of COVID-19 across the United States. Due to its close proximity to the US border, Canada has also been included. All public, private ...

The smart, dedicated student might be not get the high marks of the smart, dedicated and emotionally intelligent student, new research suggests. Published in the journal Psychological Bulletin, the study showed that school and university students with higher emotional intelligence tend to ...

Evidence shows that ADHD is a neurodevelopmental disability and its symptoms shouldn’t be simply put down as bad behaviour. That’s something Associate Professor Helen Boon from James Cook University wants cleared up in schools. Boon said there was still some ...

The NSW government has requested children who have recently travelled to China amid the coronavirus outbreak to avoid school, hours after the federal education minister chastised schools for making the same recommendation. Parents in NSW were asked to keep their ...