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Collaboration was key for Hayball Architects' Lisa Horton’s design for blending together schools. Melbourne’s Dandenong High School is an amalgamation of three existing schools. It has to cater for more than 2100 students. Horton said the successful design was a direct result of a 10-year collaboration ...

Mathspace, an Australian educational technology startup that provides software, has announced a two-pronged expansion into local primary schools and the US. Mathspace secured a deal with multinational publisher Pearson Education to launch the company's software for an estimated 9 million students in the ...

By 2018, teachers across the country will be required to teach the latest subject craze – coding – as the incoming Digital Technologies Curriculum mandates. And while many teachers have extensive experience at educating young minds in areas such as ...

The integration of information and computer technology in the education sector has redefined the way students learn. From donations and investment in computers, to learning the basics of IT, virtual field trips, collaborative lessons and online assessments, technology is permeating every ...

Only one-third of Year 7–10 students are being taught maths by a qualified maths teacher, the Australian Mathematical Sciences Institute has warned. AMSI director professor Geoff Prince explained that this figure is not uniform for all types of schools; those in ...

A bipartisan organisation that has been advocating for improvements in Indigenous education is now unable to make its rent after the federal government defunded it in 2014. The National Congress of Australia’s First Peoples once received $14 million in federal ...

A panel of young people have spoken out about what they would like to see change in the handling of sexual abuse allegations at schools. Ben, Julia, Elizabeth, Claire and Jaimsie were all involved in a long-running research study for the Royal ...

Where America goes, Australia often follows. This has certainly been the case with guidelines for child screen time. So, Australia, take heed: the American standards, provided by the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), have just been revised for the first time ...

What’s more stressful, end-of-year exams or a bear attack? Common sense would suggest the latter, but one educational expert has said some students find exams so nerve-racking that the stress response triggered in a test setting is similar to that ...

No matter how rare child sexual abuse may be, an appropriate response is urgently needed when it does occur, one member of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse has stated. Commissioner Helen Milroy, a West Australian psychiatrist for children and adolescents, said: ...