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A major international test has revealed a concerning gender gap in maths among Australian school students. In the 2023 Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS), Australia’s boys did much better than girls. Year 4 boys outperformed girls by ...

Student wellbeing has become a critical focus for parents, who are increasingly prioritising it as an essential aspect of their child’s education, leading schools to provide stronger support in this area. A recent survey of 1,545 parents across Australia found ...

The admissions centre that handles university applications in NSW and the ACT has said students applying for equity scholarships has surged more than 35 per cent this year. The University Admissions Centre (UAC) has received over 4,500 scholarship applications so ...

Year 4 students who were in Kindergarten and Year 1 during Covid-19 lockdowns have "defied concerns about disrupted learning," a report analysing Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) has found. TIMSS is a study that compares student performance ...

In the 1960s, when the real post-war revolution in education began, teachers believed they were helping transform schools from traditional teacher-centred approaches to child-centred approaches.  From learning by rote and repetition to learning by doing. Teachers of that era were changing the student ...

School-level results for the National Assessment Program - Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN), released on Wednesday, show that First Nations, poorer and rural, regional and remote students are still falling behind in learning due to those factors. NSW There were exceptions ...

Recent tutoring programs rolled out by education departments are being assessed as having little effect on student learning. Why is that, and how can we make tutoring actually work? An audit of a $1.2bn Victorian tutoring program, released in June, found ...

There is no doubt that we live in challenging times. Our era has been labelled by some as ‘post-truth’, implying that truth is irrelevant where appeals to emotion and personal belief override evidence and objective facts. A post-truth world is ...

Cost of living has emerged as the number one national issue for young Australians, eclipsing climate change and mental health, Mission Australia’s latest survey has revealed. Of the more than 17,400 Australians aged 15–19 who responded to the Youth Survey ...

Cash-strapped parents are turning to artificial intelligence tutors to educate their kids amid the cost-of-living crunch, in a newly-emerging trend experts say could hinder students’ learning if not used properly. Websites including ChatGPT, Zookal and Tutor Ocean are among several ...