A group of Year 10 students has collaborated with Australian scientists and Quit Victoria to produce a video designed to educate students and the public about free radicals and their effect on health. The video is the result of a ...

Concerns that Indigenous boarding school students will not have enough teachers and will be without medical facilities have been aired in a Senate hearing. During the election campaign Labor announced the outstation of Garrthalala, 134 kilometres from Yirrkala, in north-east ...

Literacy and numeracy of primary school students, including those from low socio-economic backgrounds, improved significantly between 2008 and 2009. The Council of Australian Governments (COAG) reform council on Friday released its second yearly report on the national education agreement. It ...

Parents need to better monitor their children and teach them to stand up for themselves to combat bullying. That’s according to noted child psychologist Dr Michael Carr-Gregg, who was appointed on Tuesday as the Queensland Government's anti-bullying expert. Carr-Gregg said ...

The issue of school funding dominated the news agenda last weekend, prompted by the release of an Australian Education Union (AEU) survey, and the government’s subsequent defence of its spending record. The national survey of more than 11,000 teachers and ...

The federal coalition has failed to win parliament's approval for a judicial inquiry into the $16.2 billion Building the Education Revolution (BER) program. A private member's bill, introduced by opposition education spokesman Christopher Pyne, was defeated at the second reading ...

There are at least 1000 children at risk of harm in the Northern Territory who have received no support from the government, a new report has said. Within hours of the report's release in Darwin on Monday, both the NT ...

Children who survived the Black Saturday bushfires have celebrated the rebuilding of another school. Strathewen Primary School, razed during the February 2009 fires, officially opened its doors on Monday. "The return of kids to their primary school marks the start ...

Parents have been encouraged to discuss with their children how best to stay safe on their way to and from school. Police issued the reminder after reporting that two boys were approached by a man who told them to get ...

Schools asked to cater for the children of asylum seekers located in the Adelaide Hills will be given extra resources to cope, Federal Immigration Minister Chris Bowen has said. The government has announced plans to move 400 people, mostly family ...