As Year 12 students across Australia prepare for the culmination of their schooling, a proportion of over-achievers will be setting their expectations high and will likely be fearful about not reaching their perfectionist heights. The perfectionist syndrome led clinical PhD ...

Students at a Sydney high school are rattled and concerned after their HSC English exam supervisor wrote the incorrect finishing time for the exam on the whiteboard. While the exam was scheduled to run from 9.50am to 11.30am on Tuesday, ...

EducationReview · New handbook helps to counter an age of fake news | Eryn Newman The phenomenon of "fake news"’ has been around since journalism first began, but the term itself and the power it can now yield has been ...

A world-first longitudinal study tracking teachers’ classroom management skills from the time they graduate until up to 15 years in the teaching profession has found that excessive demands must be reduced at the beginning of their careers. Titled ‘Teachers’ classroom ...

An RMIT expert has called for an end to the use of suspensions and exclusions to manage the behaviour of students with disability, as well as an overhaul of the dominant discipline model.                               Dr David Armstrong, an ...

Australia’s most well-known high school teacher Eddie Woo has collaborated with the Sydney Opera House to develop a four-part series on how mathematical concepts can be used to understand the design of the iconic landmark. The award-winning maths teacher, who ...

Nearly a decade's worth of NAPLAN data and a sweeping review of how writing will be taught in NSW has suggested that Australian students’ writing skills are in a sad state of decline. In a recent Sydney Morning Herald story, ...

EducationReview · Our texts lists are (mis)representing us | Alex Bacalja Although Australia was built on multiculturalism, the country hides a dark past in discrimination against Indigenous Australians and other ethnic minority groups. Patriarchy, too, dominated both men and women' ...

Two Australian education experts have offered some advice to improve students' chances of success as Year 12 students across the country prepare to finish a unique and highly challenging academic year. Andrew Martin is Scientia Professor and Professor of Educational ...

Have you ever been upset and turned to someone to seek comfort and reassurance, only to have them say something like: “It’s not worth getting upset about”, “why did you do that?!”, “it could be worse”, “everything happens for a ...