Remember getting your pen licence? That enshrined document among Australia’s school-going youth, marking the rite of passage from cheap scribbler to noble, professional scribe. Those endless hours spent painstakingly connecting one letter to another, sewing the alphabet into seamless elegance, ...

Monday to Friday, behind a desk, in the one place. This is the standard – and much-bemoaned – model for work life. It’s also the model for much of pre-tertiary education, from kindergarten to Year 12. Is this monotonous, precisely ...

As we approach the middle of 2019, education institutions the world over are no doubt bracing for a busy year of learning against an ever-increasing number of cyber-attacks. For many, their natural defence mechanism is to deploy new technology and ...

Having spent more than a decade educating Aboriginal and disadvantaged children from remote communities before moving into general teaching, John Townley’s career has come full circle, combining his passion for STEM with his desire to help those with limited access ...

Final year school students are rushing towards an imaginary finishing line burdened by societal expectations about their future, leading to a state of anxiety that impairs academic performance and negatively affects decision-making. That’s the view of University of the Sunshine Coast ...

“Oh, that’s what it looks like!” the student exclaims. A Year 12 biology student is in my office at lunchtime – or at least, that’s what it looks like on the surface. In her world, she’s actually inside a cell, ...

We increasingly focus on what we eat and drink but much less attention is paid to the quality of the air we breathe, yet it can have considerable health implications. Now, RMIT researchers are working with schools and aged care ...

From today, teachers Australia-wide will have a new set of resources to help them educate their students on one of Australia’s most troubling set of policies in its recent history: The Stolen Generations, in which thousands of Aboriginal and Torres ...

New South Wales teachers are being swamped in paperwork relating to administration and accountability, leaving them overwhelmed and unable to effectively nurture relationships with students. The Understanding Work in School report, based on a study undertaken by the University of ...

Despite movements like Reclaim the Night, which began in Leeds in 1977, women's night-time safety remains an issue. In Australia, the recent high-profile murders of Aiia Maasarwe, Eurydice Dixon and Jill Meagher in Melbourne illustrate that, as do the responses to a ...