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The educational gap between city and regional is growing, a new report has shown, prompting a call for people in the country to enrol in some form of education. The Regional Australia Institute (RAI)’s Human Capital Index, released Tuesday 28 ...

Science isn’t the only field with a leaky gender pipeline: economics suffers similar issues. An analysis of data from the NSW Education Standards Authority by Danielle Wood, an economist, Grattan Institute fellow and chair of the newly established Women in ...

A new report from Victoria University’s Mitchell Institute has argued that schools must focus more on students’ character, or in the paper's term, students' “capabilities”. Professor Bill Lucas – the Mitchell Institute’s international adviser and director of the Centre for ...

Altering the brain to cure a child’s dyslexia. That’s what the Arrowsmith Program claims it can do, and it is claims like this that raise the eyebrows of experts around the world. The brainchild of Canadian entrepreneur and author, Barbara Arrowsmith ...

Alongside Kermit, Oscar the Grouch and Elmo, this month, tiny fans of Sesame Street will meet Julia. Like her Muppet friends, she’s furry and has a cartoonish face. But four-year-old Julia differs on the inside: she has autism. The show ...

Rather than simply being a distraction, laptops help senior high school students achieve in science, new research shows. In his PhD thesis for the University of Sydney, Simon Crook – a former physics teacher with 15 years’ experience – demonstrated ...

A South Australian education expert has picked apart federal education minister Simon Birmingham’s call for “zero tolerance” in classroom bad behaviour, branding it as an argument based on ideology not evidence. Last week, Birmingham leapt on Programme for International Student ...

One in 33 children received child protection services in 2015–16 to shield them from abuse, new statistics from the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW)  have shown. During this time, 162,000 children accessed child protection services. This represented a ...

Australian school teachers spend a fifth of their holidays at work or working from home, a new survey has found. The survey of 1014 school teachers by First Point Research and Consulting – and commissioned by multinational education publisher Pearson ...

The new reports on TIMSS and PISA results are a more detailed examination of last year’s ‘first look’ reports.  The Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) and Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) are different, but complementary international ...