The lack of a common definition of outdoor education is both a strength and a weakness. A strength because it can be adapted to almost any learning area or age group. And a weakness because where a range of school ...

Australia can now claim top spot on the world obesity ladder. Young people are spending less time playing sport, street games and physically active recreation and more time in front of the screens. Moreover, the primary school curriculum is often ...

It wasn’t just baby boomers with their eyes on their super that felt the pain of the economic downturn in Australia. Research recently published by The Foundation for Young Australians, entitled ‘How Young People are Faring’, presents a confronting picture. ...

Year 9 can be a tough time. Teenage hormones have kicked in, interest in school can diminish with a growing social life and academic achievement suffers. To help Year 9 students stay focused, Toorak College, an independent school on the ...

Vocational education and training (VET) outcomes deteriorated significantly through the middle half of this decade, throwing doubt on the sector’s capacity to help meet higher education equity and completion targets. Dr Leesa Wheelahan, senior lecturer in adult and vocational education ...

Deadlines are a necessary evil: without them work doesn’t get done, assignments aren’t finished – and nobody would know which train to catch. Of course, there’s only so much that can be physically achieved within a certain time frame, which ...

Addressing skill shortages, tackling poor university retention rates and creating viable pathways between school, TAFE and university all come together in a pathbreaking new initiative offered by Victoria’s dual-sector RMIT University. A conversation in 2008 between Elise Toomey, RMIT University’s ...

The virtual world is not only shaping how students interact with each other online, it can also provide an effective model for the physical design of schools. New learning spaces should model the virtual community which students are connected to, ...

Letter from Tanzania Yes, they speak Swahili here and I am trying too. English is very much a second language and is only taught at high school. So, with my limited grasp of the local language it is tricky to ...

Australia’s education facilities are experiencing rapid change and reform in their technology, learning structures and learning environments. This poses a new set of challenges for senior management and teachers alike. After almost 200 years of teacher-centric model of learning, a ...