Researchers have found that the youngest children in classrooms are twice as likely to be diagnosed with ADHD as their older peers, raising concerns that kids are being medicated with amphetamine-based drugs for age-related immaturity. The study found that among ...

Maths should be fun – that’s the message to teachers from one expert. Western Sydney University’s associate professor Catherine Attard, an expert in primary maths education, said fun is the best medicine for relieving maths boredom. “When children are actually ...

The Australian Bureau of Statistics estimated in 2014-15 that 158,000 Australians had type 1 diabetes. This is up from the same survey by the ABS in 2011-12, where 113,400 Australians were reported as having the condition. Furthermore, according to the ...

Parents and teachers are being warned to be vigilant about asthma as they prepare for the new school year. Australian Institute of Health and Welfare data shows there is a spike in emergency department visits due to asthma in the ...

Parents who give their children alcohol double their kids’ chances of taking up drinking but decrease the risk of them binge drinking, new research has found. The study followed 2,000 students in year 7, and their parents, for four years ...

School’s almost out for summer. Along with the arrival of long days at the beach and snacking on mangoes, this signifies the release of end-of-term results. This year, however, praise for As, or in preschoolers’ case, for their festive crafts, ...

Electronics giant Samsung and the University of Canberra have entered into a research partnership to find out how spatial reasoning can improve STEM education. Spatial reasoning refers to a person’s ability to visualise three-dimensional objects. For example, one uses spatial ...

New research by Curtin University has shown that girls as young as 6 feel the effects of child sexualisation in media. The researchers, led by Dr Michelle Jongenelis from Curtin’s School of Psychology and Speech Pathology, surveyed Australian girls aged ...

Australia's 15-year-old students have progressively declined in reading, mathematics and science over the past 12 years, according to results of the triennial Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA). Singapore topped the survey, which focuses on OECD nations, followed by Japan, ...

New research shows teenagers still enjoy the age-old practice of sitting down and reading a hard-copy book. The preliminary findings of a study from Deakin University and Murdoch University researchers found that three-quarters of 12- to 16-year-olds prefer to read paper ...