With a phonics screening test for Year 1 students soon to make its way into Australian schools, Oxford University Press has released a guide to help teachers navigate the changes. Written by Hayley Goldsworthy, the consultant trainer for Ruth Miskin ...

Australian parents are looking for a more 'holistic' approach to education where life skills are taught in the classroom, a new report shows. Released this week, the ASG Parents Report Card by ASG and Monash University, is the only study of ...

Support service Family Advocacy says the education system is failing students with disability or special needs, and Australian schools need to be more inclusive. A Family Advocacy spokesperson said the findings of the NSW parliamentary inquiry into the education of ...

"I hear so many times from parents and teachers whose time is taken up with children in the classroom – whether they have a disability or whether they are autistic – that it is taking up the teacher’s time. These ...

The benefits to children of learning an Indigenous language are many. The focus of NAIDOC Week this year (2–9 July) was on the importance of language, and on social media the message was spread with the hashtag #ourlanguagematters. Dr Samantha ...

Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate. The first two lines of Shakespeare's Sonnet 18 capture the essence of a new study: poetry and nature. Researchers from Curtin University have found that ...

Our educational institutions are failing our young people, a survey has determined. Youth career coaching firm TwoPointZero asked 1,000 Australians aged 16 to 24 a range of questions about their career aspirations and realities. They found a gulf between the two. For instance, ...

Cody is just over three-and-a-half years old. He only started using recognisable words about a year ago, and still can’t string them together. Increasingly, he screams and cries when he doesn’t get his way, like when he is offered food ...

A recent evaluation report into the Teach for Australian (TFA) program has been met with criticism by lobby group Save Our Schools (SOS). SOS said in an education policy brief that the teacher training pathway was failing in its mission ...

Australia is "dropping the ball" in teaching writing skills to primary students, a literacy expert has claimed. Dr Noella Mackenzie from CSU’s school of education said keyboarding skills, too, have been neglected by the education system, leaving children academically disadvantaged. ...