Established in 1916 to provide local school kids a distraction from the horrors of the First World War, The School Magazine, produced by the New South Wales Education Department, is the world’s longest running children’s literary magazine. It has just ...

Experts at the Australian National University have developed a new, free booklet to help teachers assist students who may be victims of family violence. Stepping Up for Kids from ANU’s Australian Child and Adolescent Trauma, Loss and Grief Network is ...

For science educators Jeremy von Einem, of Sydney’s Barker College, and Rob Marr, of John Paul College near Brisbane, the rare opportunity to escort their students on a trip to NASA facilities in the US was too good to pass up. ...

High school kids attending Kawana Waters State College and Montessori International College at Forest Glen, both on the Sunshine Coast, have been chasing a different type of buzz, learning how to trap, capture and identify mosquitoes, all under the entomological ...

Taking time off could become a reluctant mea culpa for many experienced public school teachers, under new salary conditions the NSW Department of Education has outlined. In a move that the NSW Teachers Federation has decried as an attack on women’s pay ...

An alternate approach to the traditional classroom teaching model has been working its way into Australian schools, enhancing the way students learn and discover. Known as project-based learning, it positions students as creators and authoritarians rather than just content consumers, ...

“That’s one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.” It was with those immortal words that American astronaut Neil Armstrong, representing the entire human race, etched his name into the history books, having conquered what was then ...

Gracing our currency’s $50 note is an iconic figure from the early 20th century who became known as the ‘Australian Leonardo da Vinci’. History knows him as David Unaipon, a Ngarrindjeri man. He was an Indigenous polymath who gained a reputation ...

An award-winning education expert is taking aim at reversing what he warns is a tendency for students to scoff at the sciences in favour of other subjects. As career options, sciences have become a more unlikely choice for many because ...

Australia is not alone in analysing its school education system and questioning its future directions based on national and international test results. Over the past few years, I have been a member of two OECD review teams that have examined ...