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With HSC exams just around the corner and university exams not too far away, helpful tips could mean the difference between flunking and doing your best. But as Geoff Kinkade from Studiosity’s Academic Advisory Board and former principal consultant for ...

With HSC exams quickly approaching, it’s timely to refresh our knowledge of how to prepare for high-stakes tests – in many ways, they can set the foundation for the rest of our professional lives. In his final instalment of the ...

You would have to be profoundly deaf, blind or unobservant not to realise that something big was happening around Sydney’s CBD last Friday. Scores of students, still dutifully dressed in their school uniforms, started to snake their way through the ...

Qualified linguist Lyn Stone is an expert in what she does, but someday she hopes to be made “redundant”. Until then, however, the founder of literacy consultancy group Lifelong Literacy believes there are far too many students and teachers in ...

Federal Education Minister Dan Tehan has applauded Victoria and urged other jurisdictions to act now in banning mobile phones. He later told reporters that evidence from Canada shows that banning mobiles in schools improves student performance by six per cent, ...

A diverse school workforce is the key to a successful school, according to a new report released by the Australian Institute for Teaching and School Leadership (AITSL), the country’s federally funded body for excellence in teaching and leadership. Entitled Spotlight: ...

Parental discontent was a theme that emerged last week when education ministers met at the Council of Australian Governments (COAG) to discuss both NAPLAN and mobile phone bans during school times, a move already planned for primary and secondary state ...

Taxation is something many people don’t comprehend fully until their 20s or 30s, but an Australian Taxation Office (ATO) competition challenges school students to demonstrate the roles tax and super play in the community. Now in its third year, the competition encourages students to explain ...

The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra (MSO) has announced its Schools’ Season for 2020 that includes programs for kinder and prep, primary and secondary students and includes world-renowned artists. The season also contains an MSO Work Experience component that offers insights into “the ...

The Indigenous Literacy Foundation’s Indigenous Literacy Day takes place on Wednesday September 4. The focus of the national celebration of indigenous culture, story-telling, literacy and language is on drawing attention to the disadvantages faced by Indigenous peoples living in remote ...