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In an unsurprising finding, a German study has concluded that students who find maths to be fun are better at it. This reinforces recent calls from experts, including Western Sydney University’s associate professor Catherine Attard, that making maths fun is key ...

Whether kids, parents or teachers like it or not, phonics tests will be introduced for year one students. Nationwide. Education minster Simon Birmingham considers them essential to detect reading difficulties early on. In an interview with Sky News in late ...

Due to what she believes is an “epidemic” in cyberbullying among school children, a Gold Coast-based social media businesswoman has waded into the discussion. Corinna Essa is the founder of Social Media Worldwide, a firm that teaches businesses the effective ...

Ophthalmologists are calling on parents to ensure their children’s eyes are properly protected while they’re at school, and for schools to help out. The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Ophthalmologists has issued a statement saying that schools should ...

At school, Nick Tepper was a smart kid who behaved badly in class but he stayed in school because he wanted to go to university. Fast forward a few years and Tepper is a 24-year-old University of Queensland graduate who ...

The past 10 years has seen a sharp increase in overall year 12 completion rates, the Australian Bureau of Statistics has shown. Currently, 84.3 per cent of students finish year 12, compared to 75 per cent in 2006. Girls also ...

The following is an open letter from a prototypical foster kid on their first day of school: Dear Miss Kendall, Tomorrow will be my first day at school and you’ll be my teacher, so I thought I’d let you know ...

The Australian private tutoring industry has been Ubered by a pair of software engineers operating out of Brisbane. For co-chief executives and founders Sam Robertson and Cameron Schmidt, the story of Scooter Tutor began in 2007. Schmidt initially came up ...

An education academic has argued that Adrian Piccoli “needed to go” from the NSW education portfolio, following newly minted premier Gladys Berejiklian’s cabinet reshuffle. Piccoli, a NSW Nationals MP, was replaced with Rob Stokes, who previously sat in the planning ...

“Nothing good happens after midnight.” Michael Thorn, chief executive of the Foundation for Alcohol Research and Education (FARE), drops this aphorism in a conversation about lockout laws. The erosion of lockout laws, and how it affects the wellbeing of children, ...