Thousands of primary and secondary students in Sydney and Melbourne are preparing for selective entrance exams. If successful, students will gain entry into a selective secondary school, with other high-achievers, or an “opportunity class”, which is an academic stream for years 5 and ...

An analysis of the NSW Department of Education’s Annual Report for 2020 has found that the state is not meeting standards it set for itself, and is falling short in areas including HSC results, the proportion of graduating students, wellbeing, ...

Neuroscientists and psychologists from UNSW Sydney have developed a video game that provides insights into punishment and why some individuals will try almost anything to avoid it, while others are undaunted by it. For a long time it has been ...

An “engagement epidemic” must be addressed in contemporary schools that extends far beyond a couple of curriculum tweaks. What is needed is a complete reboot, argues Australian learning strategist and experienced educator and leader Louka Parry, who will urge school ...

What a difference a year makes. Around Australia, ‘normal service’ has largely resumed in schools and places of higher learning. This time in 2020, it was a very different story. COVID shutdowns saw institutions racing to implement remote learning models, ...

This year Velisha Farms, a Weribee horticulture business, has started up a program for local primary school students to learn the “tricks of the agriculture trade”.  The program is described as “hands-on” and covers the full gamut of the agricultural ...

Research informs that feelings of social connectedness, attachment, belonging, self-efficacy and self-confidence also help to develop and advance a student’s physical, mental, psychological, social and emotional security, and their overall wellbeing. All of this helps to develop and provide further ...

Outspoken One Nation politician Mark Latham has launched a scathing attack on a task assigned to a Year 8 class in a NSW school. The task is part of the Personal Development, Health and Physical Education (PHPE) curriculum and asks ...

Job security remains a key issue for NSW public school teachers, with a reported one in five educators currently in a temporary or contract position. Temporary positions were created by NSW's education department in 2001, and, while the casual workforce ...

For William Hazlitt, the education process should have, as one of its central aims, the goal of creating the next generation of well-educated, independent and enlightened rational thinkers: who should be highly skilled, competent, intellectually erudite, and having the profoundly ...