With 8 out of 10 children who receive a cancer diagnosis surviving the illness, a researcher has identified that more needs to be done to support these children when they go back to school. Anne Gaunt, a master of education ...

Belgian model Hanne Gaby Odiele is a rangy 178 centimetres tall. Mousy-blonde haired and milky-skinned, she has an impish, slightly androgynous look. As well as strutting catwalks, Odiele is helping break a taboo by recently declaring herself intersex. Odiele revealed ...

In an unsurprising finding, a German study has concluded that students who find maths to be fun are better at it. This reinforces recent calls from experts, including Western Sydney University’s associate professor Catherine Attard, that making maths fun is key ...

At school, Nick Tepper was a smart kid who behaved badly in class but he stayed in school because he wanted to go to university. Fast forward a few years and Tepper is a 24-year-old University of Queensland graduate who ...

Across Australia, four, five and six-year-olds are feeling anxious, exhilarated, or possibly both. Their first day of ‘big school’ is imminent. Although this year goes by various names – prep, kindergarten, year K – there is one commonality: parental uncertainty ...

Soon after the school year begins, it's time for the annual swimming carnival. But, as a new study from Deakin University has shown, all the calories burnt off by the kids in the pool are often quickly replaced by a ...

The so-called autism epidemic is being driven by doctors diagnosing more children with less severe symptoms, researchers say, not by more children being born with the condition. A study published in Autism Research, titled Evidence of a reduction over time ...

Researchers have found that the youngest children in classrooms are twice as likely to be diagnosed with ADHD as their older peers, raising concerns that kids are being medicated with amphetamine-based drugs for age-related immaturity. The study found that among ...

Maths should be fun – that’s the message to teachers from one expert. Western Sydney University’s associate professor Catherine Attard, an expert in primary maths education, said fun is the best medicine for relieving maths boredom. “When children are actually ...

The Australian Bureau of Statistics estimated in 2014-15 that 158,000 Australians had type 1 diabetes. This is up from the same survey by the ABS in 2011-12, where 113,400 Australians were reported as having the condition. Furthermore, according to the ...