Parents of students who attend Northern Beaches Secondary College Manly Campus and James Ruse Agricultural High School have occupations and educational achievements that surpass almost all others in NSW. On extreme ends of the spectrum, think managers with PhDs, as opposed ...

The state government is set to overhaul careers education in Victorian secondary schools, introducing careers workshops for students as young as Year 7, according to a recent article in The Age. My first reaction is that this initiative is long ...

Personalised learning in schools is all the Gonksi-fueled rage, but what it if meant more than individualised learning plans and assessments? What if it meant mapping curricula to students’ genomes? This may sound like the plot of a sci-fi film; ...

There is calculus in applying bicycle brakes and algebra in getting dressed, but would a high school STEM teacher even know this? The government thinks not; hence their plan to put a STEM specialist in each high school. Professor Paul ...

South Australia allows young people to educationally go with the FLO. FLO (Flexible Learning Option) is an alternative to mainstream schooling. Instead of sitting in classrooms from 9am to 3.30pm, students (often those with mental health, learning or behavioural difficulties) ...

Australia’s youngest senator wants 16-year-olds to do something they’ve never done before: vote. “For far too long, politics has failed to properly represent young people or the issues they care about,” Jordon Steele-John, a 23-year-old West Australian Greens representative, told parliament ...

Winter has started. Cold, short days add to the challenge of a long second term for teachers, students and families in Victoria. First term is now a distant memory but anyone associated with schools in Victoria would be saying to ...

“…Both students and parents have high expectations for achievement, but exposure to persistent and repeated negative representations of indigeneity or Indigenous academic ability from teachers and the media leads to disengagement, de-identification and reduced wellness.” This statement, by a group ...

The rapid and exponential growth of the internet over the past 40 years has changed the nature of society. Indeed, at the end of the first two decades of the twenty-first century, the internet is our defining medium. This has ...

Much has been made of the inadequacy of careers advice in schools. Regardless, some young people simply know what they want to do for a living earlier than others. Erin, from Bondi in Sydney’s east, knew she wanted to be a ...