In an Australian first, two schools will trial classrooms powered purely by renewable energy. South-western Sydney’s St Christopher’s Catholic Primary School and the Illawarra's Dapto High School will trial the new Hivve modular classroom, which generates 100 per cent of ...

While schools are increasingly focused on creating inclusive environment, racism still runs rampant among students, a new report shows. Racism in education particularly affects South Sudanese refugee students. This is the finding of a new paper published by University of South ...

A study of NSW kindergarten students released yesterday has provided evidence that social and emotional behaviours in children directly relate to school results later in life. The work was conducted by researchers from the University of New South Wales in ...

Take the stress out of planning an educational trip by staying in safe, clean and affordable accommodation tailored to groups with YHA Australia. You’ve collected the permission slips, loaded the lunches onto the bus, seated the students, done a head ...

We've all likely heard the statistics: gay, bisexual, intersex or transgender people comprise only up to 11 per cent of the Australian population, yet they are three times as likely to experience depression. One survey found almost 1 in 2 ...

It’s essential to test children for speech and language disorders, but applying monolingual tests to multilingual children only leads to poor diagnoses and damaged learning outcomes, experts say. The comments were made by linguistics scholar Dr Madalena Cruz-Ferreira, who this ...

In August we learned that there were NAPLAN triumphs and concerns: overall, reading and numeracy were up, yet writing had declined. Now, with ACARA's release of the 2017 NAPLAN National Report, long-term demographic trends have come to light. Since 2008, Indigenous ...

Studies show girls are 25 per cent less confident in their ability to learn maths than boys, but a new national mentoring program aims to alter this reality. The mathematics network is now being piloted in five states (NSW, QLD, ...

Although, in a given day, 80 per cent of children consumed news from at least one source, only 16 per cent of this cohort had learnt how to interpret this material at school over the past year. That's just one finding from the ...

Picture an entrepreneur. Maybe a rock star one like Mark Zuckerberg, or a more socially-conscious, local one like the guys from Who Gives a Crap. Then imagine the skills they drew on to scale their businesses, things like ambition, problem-solving, communication ...