Over recent decades, in many countries across the world, there has been increasing concern about the disparity in life expectations between children born into relative affluence and those born into more disadvantaged circumstances. This is true between nations, of course, ...

A new report from Mission Australia shows 10 per cent of Indigenous young men aged 15 to 19, and 5 per cent of Indigenous women of this age, rate their happiness as 0 out of 10. Only 1 per cent of ...

It takes a community – the modern-day village – to keep a child safe. That’s the key message of this year’s annual National Child Protection Week, which began on Sunday. The event is organised by the National Association for Prevention ...

A survey has found that while most parents intend to save money for their children’s education, only one-third follow through – and most believe the federal government should help. The Australian Scholarships Groups (ASG) surveyed 1000 parents. ASG found that even though 93 per cent ...

Raising the bar for entry into education programs isn’t the answer to better instruction and will make it harder to serve a growing population of students. By Kevin Donnelly ATARs and tertiary selection are controversial topics that have dominated much ...

A Victorian Catholic school principal has argued there is an “unsustainable and inappropriate” power imbalance between Catholic school leaders and the church, one that needs fixing if institutionalised child abuse is not to be repeated. Paul Tobias, principal of Geelong’s ...

Australia’s schooling system is world-class. That’s what one principal has relayed from a gathering of teachers and principals at Harvard University. Clayton Reedie, principal of Dalmeny Public School – in Sydney’s south-west – has recently returned from a trip to ...

Kids in Tasmania can now attend school from age 4½, but they don’t have to, the Tasmanian Government announced last week. The government's move from its previous position – mandatory school at age 4½ – comes after much pressure from political opponents and advocacy groups. ...

Nearly one-third of people with epilepsy have forms resistant to current medication, leading some people to turn to medical cannabis, driven by hope that it will work, based on anecdotal evidence. Researchers at the University of Sydney’s Lambert Initiative, in partnership ...

It could be said that school education’s equivalent to the Olympics is the OECD’s Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA). While Australia’s performance on the world’s sporting stage guarantees passionate discussion, our international performance in education doesn’t share quite the ...