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When it comes to financial literacy, Australia's 15-year-olds rank equal fifth, behind the Gradgrindian juvenile accountants of China, Belgium, Canada and Russia. Some countries not as good with dollars and cents as Aussie teens include the United States, Poland, Italy, Spain, ...

Sixteen-year-old Mountain Creek State High School student Samara Welbourne is combining her love of books and Bali to lead a $20,000 project to build a library in Bungaya, a rural community on the island popular with Australian tourists. Welbourne started learning ...

Principal Mandy Sanderson has chalked up four decades as a teacher and leader for a simple reason: she regards the profession as a constant learning curve. Mandy Sanderson is in her 40th year of working in schools, and when speaking ...

Many organisations rely directly on high-performing and always available websites, which in some cases represents their entire business model. The education sector is a prime example of this, with a growing incidence of online courses being made available to everyday ...

Have you noticed that preschool-age girls are more attentive and controlled than boys? A new study has affirmed this, along with the fact that these behaviours lead to better academic performance. Researchers from Queensland University of Technology analysed teacher-reported behaviour ...

Each generation has their Aussie, kids’ TV icons. In the early 90s, the Round the Twist gang dominated. In the noughties, Lockie Leonard and H2O: Just Add Water established themselves. Now, Dance Academy enthralls young teens. According to the Australian Children’s TV ...

I can’t imagine much joy in a cookie cutter world where everyone is exactly the same. There would be no surprises and no hidden gems. Difference is comprised of defining features in physical, linguistic, cultural and other characteristics of people. ...

An Australian student, his teacher and industry partners have teamed up to create a piece of technology that will help to resolve the digital technologies crisis that currently exists in schools. Mark Trezise, a Year 11 student at Geelong's Oberon ...

Student engagement has a correlation with academic results, that is, it can be assumed that higher grades from a student can be at least partly attributed to them paying attention. Disengagement, on the other hand, is the issue and isn’t ...

Psychologist Steve Biddulph thinks girls have it tougher than they used to. His latest tome, 10 Things Girls Need Most, teases out what he considers to be the crux of girls’ issues: parental anxiety. Biddulph calls it an "Anglo-Saxon disease” ...