Landscape fulfils two essential roles in children’s lives and education; as a place of play and as a place to experience nature. In today’s society, both of these things are diminishing or being challenged. Why is this? And why is ...

When Christine Pheeney embarked on a two-week trip to Indonesia in 2005, she never imagined she would still be living and working there seven years later. Yet she counts her experiences as a volunteer in a developing nation as some ...

Just as the country was quietly winding down for the Christmas break, the long-running discussion about declining enrolments in science in the senior years took an interesting turn. The Australian Academy of Science released a report which claimed that year ...

Two years ago, central city high school Perth Modern was doing pretty well. It ranked third among government schools and 18th on the contentious Western Australia Curriculum Council league tables, representing year 12 students with scores in the top third ...

SPECIAL REPORT: DRAMA If schools wish to prepare students for success in the 21st century, we have to rethink the curriculum structure as a whole - and the place of educational drama and theatre. The recent 2010 European study, Drama ...

SPECIAL REPORT: DRAMA When you hear about educational initiatives that aim to prepare students for the future you could be forgiven for thinking the future is going to be populated by little brains attached to a digital interface. There seems ...

SPECIAL REPORT: DRAMA Drama, along with all the arts, has long claimed its place in the education of children, young people and adults. Over the years a range of arguments has been used to support and secure this claim and ...

SPECIAL REPORT International rates suggest dyspraxia affects one in 30 children, however, it is rarely diagnosed in Australia, as opposed to autism, of which there is a 300 per cent higher incidence here than overseas. Already there are voices in ...

The history of education is a diminishing field in Australian universities and no longer a compulsory part of pre-service teacher training, much to the detriment of the teaching profession, academics say. Professor of education at Charles Sturt University, Bill Green, ...

With the last of the Building the Education Revolution (BER) buildings soon to be completed, interest has shifted from what to build, to how to occupy these new facilities. Although the impetus of the BER scheme was to boost the ...