Science isn’t the only field with a leaky gender pipeline: economics suffers similar issues. An analysis of data from the NSW Education Standards Authority by Danielle Wood, an economist, Grattan Institute fellow and chair of the newly established Women in ...

Altering the brain to cure a child’s dyslexia. That’s what the Arrowsmith Program claims it can do, and it is claims like this that raise the eyebrows of experts around the world. The brainchild of Canadian entrepreneur and author, Barbara Arrowsmith ...

Rather than simply being a distraction, laptops help senior high school students achieve in science, new research shows. In his PhD thesis for the University of Sydney, Simon Crook – a former physics teacher with 15 years’ experience – demonstrated ...

Classroom mindfulness can cause anxiety and stress in students who’ve experienced trauma, an expert has warned. Flinders University education academic Dr Leigh Burrows has advised that teachers who want to use the practice should learn their student’s backgrounds and not ...

New research shows that today’s supposedly tech-addicted children can still be bookworms. This, however, is more likely if they’re given a hard copy. The influence of access to eReaders, computers and mobile phones on children’s book reading frequency, published in ...

Primary Ethics, the provider of ethics education in NSW primary schools, has called on the NSW education department to make enrolment processes for its classes more transparent. Primary Ethics chief executive Leonie Johnson said the new process, which only requires ...

With research confirming that media messages mould children’s gender identity, an expert has argued that primary school teachers could play a critical role in reshaping these perceptions. University of Technology Sydney’s Dr Jane Hunter said that “very young girls are ...

Keeping an assembly of primary school-aged children quiet for 30 minutes can be a struggle, as most teachers would know. But Sydney’s Trinity Grammar School managed to pull it off for a full day with 800 of its students aged ...

Monique Mezzatesta runs the Music Dojo, an inner city Sydney music school that utilises the Asian education philosophies fostered by martial arts academies. Mezzatesta, an orange belt in ninjutsu, believes in teaching an eclectic range of music — from the ...

Research from South Australia’s universities has found that 51 per cent of school leavers have trouble deciding on what to study at university. The study, supported by the federal Department of Education, surveyed year 12 students from 67 high schools ...