The new reports on TIMSS and PISA results are a more detailed examination of last year’s ‘first look’ reports.  The Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) and Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) are different, but complementary international ...

Unclear and indirect jargon could be hurting the chances of getting troubled teens with language disorders back into school, a University of Melbourne speech pathologist has warned. Nathaniel Swain said that language disorders, namely conditions that inhibit the deciphering of ...

With disease-free sandpits now on the national agenda, all parents might have to support child vaccination. But this doesn’t mean many aren’t worried about it. The latest Australian Child Health Poll, Vaccination: Perspectives of Australian parents, bears this out. Conducted by researchers ...

A fifth of Australian Year 4 students report being bullied at least once a week, and this contributes substantially to Australia’s declining performance in international school league tables. The Australia-specific results for the OECD Trends in International Mathematics and Science ...

A private tutoring industry exists for the purpose of helping individual students to ace NAPLAN, despite the test results being used to monitor schools' overall academic performance, the University of Melbourne’s professor Stephen Dinham has revealed. Dinham, an education expert ...

The federal government is undertaking a review to form a policy blueprint for helping country students have the same educational opportunities as their city counterparts. Federal education minister Simon Birmingham said that around one-third of country students don’t complete year ...

When billionaire businessman and philanthropist Andrew Forrest comes knocking, you open the door. That’s what Perth’s Telethon Kids Institute did, and together with Forrest’s Minderoo Foundation, they’ve launched CoLab, an initiative aimed at helping vulnerable children by coordinating stakeholders and ...

It’s a common move for year 12 students to take easier mathematics courses in order to maximise their ATAR. Now, an expert from the University of Sydney warns this practice could become commonplace in English, thanks to the reforms of ...

It sure is a sticky issue: in the wake of two recent reports advocating for the imposition of a sugar tax, Liberal frontbenchers have reaffirmed their opposition to the proposed levy. At a doorstop interview in Tasmania on Tuesday 21 ...

“We’re extremely strong advocates for vaccination … and we both recognise that vaccine rejection is an ongoing problem in Australia … and there’s actually very limited evidence on the best way to address vaccine rejection.” Dr Margie Danchin of the ...