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 ...

Childcare providers have called on the federal government to slow the rollout of its planned reforms to the sector until it can afford to fund them entirely. A draft Productivity Commission report into Australia's early childhood development workforce has found ...

NSW Teachers took their industrial relations campaign to the Premier’s office on Tuesday, demanding the NSW government roll back its contentious public sector wages laws. About 200 teachers on Tuesday rallied in Farrer Place, outside Governor Macquarie Tower, to protest ...

Tasmanian Premier Lara Giddings says she is determined to make cuts from the state's education system, despite her government's backdown on a decision to close 20 schools. The government announced last month it would consider closing 20 schools around the ...