On Friday 18 August 2017 an event held at the Sydney Opera House will be available online for all Australian high school students to participate in. Run as part of Science Week the event will allow students across Australia to ...

‘It’s not fair’ is a refrain whined by children the world over. Though a study has found seven-year-olds may comprehend this concept more so than four-year-olds. Two groups of children, one aged four to five, the other aged seven to ...

In 2014, the phrase ‘like a girl’ went viral. Thanks to a savvy advertising campaign by Always: a feminine hygiene brand, these three words busted sexist stereotypes of girls’ athletic abilities. The campaign contained a video that showed a variety ...

Referencing neither sit-ups, nor cornflakes, Kristin Fontichiaro advised a group of Victorian librarians to teach students to get crunchy. She was, of course, alluding to data. In Melbourne for a School Library Association of Victoria conference, Fontichiaro, a clinical assistant professor at the University of ...

There probably couldn’t be two more diametrically opposed environments than St Stephen’s School in Perth, and Jehovah Jireh Haven in Alexandria, South Africa. St Stephen’s School, a co-educational Christian school of the Uniting Church, is all clipped lawns, neat navy ...

A New Yorker obituary of the first woman to ever win the Fields Medal – math’s highest honour – contained a surprising detail. At school, Maryam Mirzakhani was told she wasn’t that good at math. While this sentiment is particularly ...

The first event in a national competition pitting children at the primary and high school level against each other in the information and communications technology (ICT) field took place over the weekend of 22-23 July 2017 in Townsville, Queensland. The ...

Never mind beautiful failures. University of Melbourne academic Tim Mayfield has deemed Australia a spectacular failure in terms of learning languages. Mayfield, who is executive director of the university’s Asia Education Foundation, noted that there has been a drastic decline ...

Just south of the border between England and Scotland and west of the rugged Pennines lies the University of Cumbria. There, this week, director of the Melbourne Educational Research Institute professor John Hattie urged teachers to give social media a go in ...

The world of Minecraft is not flat, nor round. It’s square. Even the cupcakes at the computer game’s promotional stand at EduTECH were square. But, despite their unusual shape, the baked goods weren’t the focus. Rather, teachers’ eyes were glued ...