Health professionals are often failing to recognise complex health issues such as depression, an adolescent health expert has said. Young people commonly visit their GP with respiratory illnesses including asthma, colds and viruses but neglect to mention underlying health issues, ...

As education ministers meet in Sydney today, pressure is coming from unions, the opposition and the Australian Greens for a commitment to boost federal funding for schools. Federal school education minister Peter Garrett is currently in the meeting with his state and ...

Evidence suggests that most teachers feel uncomfortable and unprepared when helping students understand or deal with mental health issues like depression or mood disorders. It’s for this reason that programs which educate teachers and equip them to confront these issues ...

A federal government threat to redirect the $9 billion for national skills development away from state and territory coffers has not caused a rush to sign up for the revised agreement. The states and territories are still poring over the Skills ...

COMMENT I started my teaching career in 1974 in the heady days of the new ACT Schools Authority. During my Dip Ed year I became part of a group of parents, community members, teachers, and teacher trainees, that developed a ...

Teacher aides will not be cut under reforms to special needs student funding in NSW schools, Education Minister Adrian Piccoli has said. Piccoli moved on Tuesday to counter claims that the reforms were simply a cost-cutting exercise as he detailed ...

The federal government is backing the recommendations outlined in a report into youth suicide in the Northern Territory. The Gone Too Soon report, released on Tuesday by a select committee of NT politicians, found specialist police, youth workers and mental ...

When it comes to the internet and its impact on young people, it’s a case of the good, the bad and the ugly, a new position statement from the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists has concluded. The statement ...

How current and aspiring school leaders and teachers are using ICT for teaching and learning, professional development and networking is the subject of a new survey. Principals Australia Institute said its “Lead Learn 2012” survey of educators will examine the ...

While Australian educators are well aware of the increasing prevalence of childhood obesity, new research suggests that school policies, and strict uniform codes in particular, may be discouraging children from lunchtime schoolyard play. Rebecca Stanley, PhD candidate at the School ...