A new study is examining why some teenage girls buck the trend and maintain healthy physical activity levels while the majority of their peers do not. During the transition from primary school to high school, there is a significant decrease ...

The Labor government has largely overlooked the issue of child homelessness, a leading charity group has said. Mission Australia chief executive Toby Hall said a "patchwork approach to welfare" was letting down homeless children. He said two years after the ...

Assault, damaging property, shoplifting and breaching bail are some of the common offences getting NSW youth into trouble. Now the NSW Attorney-General wants community help in shaping the laws surrounding young offenders, in the hopes of stopping children repeating the ...

The My School website will give detailed information about vocational education (VET) in secondary schools from next February. The third major update to the site also will include the ability to compare academic improvements made by students with similar starting ...

NSW Education Minister Adrian Piccoli has been attacked for saying teacher quality is the major challenge when it comes to improving academic results in poor suburbs. An analysis of NAPLAN test results shows children at public schools in poor communities ...

The University of NSW has announced a $600,000 scholarship program for disadvantaged students to study law. The program is being funded by Australian author, entrepreneur and lawyer John M. Green. The university said that it was “one of the most ...

Did you begin teacher education in New South Wales or Victoria in 2002/3 or 2006? Dr Helen Watt and Dr Paul Richardson from Monash University are co-chief investigators of FIT-Choice (Factors Influencing Teaching Choice), a longitudinal study investigating pathways of ...

Amnesty International says disadvantaged Aborigines need local solutions, not the "failed" intervention policy being pursued by the federal government. Indigenous affairs minister Jenny Macklin on Tuesday said the government would do whatever it took to lift education standards and tackle ...

State and federal education ministers have endorsed assessment standards for the new Australian curriculum and a framework for national teacher registration. They have also got behind a proposal to fund professional development for principals and a national model to identify ...

As part of a Council of Australian Governments commitment to improving outcomes for children in the early years, a suite of reforms is being implemented across Australia's early childhood education and care (ECEC) sector, under the umbrella of the National ...