Primary school students are being encouraged to donate their old mobile phones as part of a fundraising drive to support young people with cancer. As part of the campaign, schools receive a host of products, such as laptops and interactive ...

The Australian Academy of Science has announced the launch of the Science by Doing junior secondary science resources this week, following 18 months of development and testing. Science by Doing is a national initiative for the improvement of secondary science ...

New laws, to be introduced to parliament later this year, will see teachers who are convicted of serious offences automatically deregistered and banned for life from reapplying for registration. Queensland education minister Cameron Dick said the changes would strengthen safeguards ...

Plans to introduce mental health checks for three-year-olds should be expanded to include a test for learning difficulties, a leading psychologist has said. Clinical psychologist Tim Hannan believes the move would stop many parents signing their children up for treatments ...

The Shooters and Fishers Party has won the support of the NSW government to introduce shooting as a sport in more schools, it was reported this week. The Sun-Herald newspaper reported that the gun control lobby and even some in ...

Social networking should be taught in schools in order to tackle cyber bullying, parents and online experts have said. Thomas Tudehope, a director of social media intelligence firm SR7, has called for social networking skills, online etiquette and role-playing to ...

More Victorian child protection workers will work directly with children and young people under a restructure of the sector. The system that deals with vulnerable families has been under review since the coalition took office last November. Victorian Community Services ...

The Building the Education Revolution (BER) scheme has been labeled a success by the taskforce set up to investigate inefficiencies. The $16.2 billion infrastructure program, designed to combat an expected economic downturn due to the 2008 global financial crisis, delivered ...

Noel Pearson will take control of a trouble-plagued indigenous college in north Queensland after its independent board agreed to transfer ownership to an organisation headed by the aboriginal leader. Djarragun College, located at Gordonvale, south of Cairns, was once described ...

Victorian children with refugee backgrounds have a higher likelihood of living in poverty, according to a landmark report. The Refugee Status Report examined how refugee children and adolescents fare across health, wellbeing and learning benchmarks on arrival and during settlement ...