Public schools do not have the funds needed to educate the rapidly increasing numbers of students with disabilities, with nine out of 10 principals saying their school is under-resourced in that area. An Australian Education Union (AEU) survey, which questioned 15,000 principals, teachers ...

According to recent reports, chronic absenteeism, defined as students missing 10 per cent or more of the school year, continues to be higher than pre-pandemic levels, and is still on the rise. This is a major reason for concern for ...

It's well established that adolescence is a time of angst. Young people have the awareness to understand the challenges in the world around them (and, often, a capacity to imagine the worst), but do not yet have the experience or ...

Despite our efforts to foster social and emotional intelligence and build resilience through specialised programs, the decline of our students' emotional resilience persists. We live in a world where adversity is inevitable, yet there's an underlying expectation that we, as ...

More than 12 per cent of girls will get their menstrual period between ages 8-11, but the sex education curriculum does not discuss periods until students are aged 10, or sometimes 12. The average age of first menstruation has been ...

Sexting involves taking self-made naked or partially naked sexual photos, videos or explicit texts and sending them online or via a mobile phone. They are more commonly referred to as “nudes” or “dick pics” by young people. A 2021 survey ...

Sydney schools are integrating nature and outdoors into their learning areas in an effort to reap the benefits of students connecting to the outdoors while they learn and play. Off the back of studies that show people are in general ...

The Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) 2022 report Australia’s Children says 70 per cent of children aged 12–13 experience at least one bullying-like behaviour a year, and almost half of those students (46 per cent) go on to ...

The Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA) announced on Monday that schools will receive preliminary NAPLAN results earlier than ever this year. Reading, language conventions, and numeracy results will be released four weeks after the final tests on March ...

A one-off federal government mental health grant that schools can use to assist students with the negative impacts of Covid-19 has gone largely unnoticed, a student wellbeing support body said. The Student Wellbeing boost, rolled out in February last year, ...