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For troubled kids in Victoria, the state’s minister for mental health has offered some monetary respite. Martin Foley has announced a $14 million upgrade to children’s health services in the state, including an integration of the Early in Life Mental ...

An analysis of Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority data shows that the priciest private schools don't necessarily produce students with better academic results than ones that cost less, and that putting kids in single-sex schools makes more of a difference. The Good Education Group (GEG), a private ...

Established in 1916 to provide local school kids a distraction from the horrors of the First World War, The School Magazine, produced by the New South Wales Education Department, is the world’s longest running children’s literary magazine. It has just ...

A national poll of school students in years 5–12 showed that less than half are hopeful about their future, their enthusiasm for school declines as they get older, and more than one-third of students are struggling in terms of wellbeing. The ...

Experts at the Australian National University have developed a new, free booklet to help teachers assist students who may be victims of family violence. Stepping Up for Kids from ANU’s Australian Child and Adolescent Trauma, Loss and Grief Network is ...

School leaders and academics descended upon the University of Canberra to explore how exactly principals use their time. Cross-national Exploration of Principals’ Time use: Patterns, causes, and effects was funded by the American Educational Research Association, a network of academics with 25,000 ...

We’ve all heard about the horrific abuse of children at the Don Dale Youth Detention Centre exposed by ABC’s Four Corners program, and the subsequent government announcement of a royal commission to investigate all juvenile jails in the Northern Territory. ...

It wasn’t long ago that schools were still using blackboards. Data projectors, whiteboards and interactive whiteboards have all been developed since. Laptops and tablets are just another step along. The recent technology bans in a handful of Sydney schools appear to ...

It’s her manifesto on everything wrong with Australia’s education system. In Lucy Clark’s nonfiction book Beautiful Failures, she examines “how the quest for success is harming our kids”. Clark says the intense pressures and stresses of high school led to ...

With federal Labor pledging $393 million to train 25,000 specialist STEM teachers, its Victorian state counterpart has already allocated $27 million to train these teachers – via a program to be rolled out through Deakin University. The Victorian education minister, ...