The notion that violent video games lead to aggression and crime in the real world is contested and inconclusive, a research review has found. Classification ministers across Australia are considering the need for an R18+ computer games classification. The highest ...

Just 12 months ago half of all Aurukun state school students, from Grade 1 to 10, were reading at kindergarten or pre-kindergarten level. Now, for the first time, there are students in the Cape York community learning at the same ...

Balancing the competing needs of students, parents and communities, working in the accountability landscape, finding the time for professional development, and securing the best teaching resources. These are among the key challenges facing the profession, as outlined by two speakers ...

Feedback for teachers is historically underutilised, and some groups in the profession are even fearful of it, Larry Kamener of the Boston Consulting Group told the AITSL stakeholder forum this week. Kamener advocated fully integrating professional development and performance management. ...

Vocational training for young people is more likely to succeed if certain factors are built in, such as individual learning plans and strict attendance rules. A new study from Victoria University’s Work-based Education Centre (WERC) also identified the need for ...

A new national project aims to equip all pre-service teachers with the skills to incorporate information and communication technologies (ICT) into their teaching. All 37 Australian universities that provider teacher education courses will be involved in the $7.8 million project, ...

Renowned education expert Professor John Hattie has been appointed Director of research at the University of Melbourne’s Graduate School of Education. Hattie is widely regarded as a leading education authority. His influential 2008 book, Visible Learning, is believed to be ...

The unemployment rate for teenage males not in full-time education rose from 18.2 per cent in 2009 to 18.8 per cent in 2010. The number of teenagers starting apprenticeships and traineeships dropped by more than 15,000 between 2008 and 2009, ...

Many teachers and parents should learn better emotional and social skills in order to help children boost their school or university performance, according to a leading US research scientist. Dr Marc A. Brackett, deputy director of Yale University’s Health, Emotion, ...

The federal government has said it cannot release the cost breakdowns behind each school stimulus building project because the information isn't ready. The BER taskforce recommended in August that "in the interest of transparency and public accountability" each education authority ...