The Australian College of Educators (ACE) has awarded the prestigious 2020 College Medal to all Australian teachers in an unprecedented move that acknowledged the extraordinary challenges educators faced in 2020 due to COVID-19.Traditionally the College Medal, which has been conferred ...

The Prime Minister has defended his decision to promote Alan Tudge to the position of Education and Youth Minister last week as part of a cabinet reshuffle. Scott Morrison said Tudge, whose affair with a female staffer was aired on Four ...

Queensland’s education minister has refused to reveal who the "mystery MP" embroiled in a corruption investigation alongside former deputy premier Jackie Trad was during a fiery hearing on Wednesday morning. Grace Grace was grilled about the Crime and Corruption Commission ...

Australian Year 8 students have cracked the top ten for maths and science globally, with the 2019 Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) showing they were outperformed by only six other countries. The results, which were released in ...

The Primary English Teaching Association Australia (PETAA) has committed to supporting teachers after New South Wales joined South Australia in introducing mandatory phonics screening checks in primary schools from 1 December 2020.  The association has a long history of involvement ...

Public school principals are struggling to provide adequate funding for students with a disability and report having to siphon funds from other school budgets to make up for the shortfall, according to the Australian Education Union’s (AEU) 2020 State of ...

Australian children are reporting self-harm as early as grade 6, a new study shows. Researchers assessed more than 1200 children living in Melbourne each year from age 8-9 years to 11-12 years. Twenty-eight of the 1059 students in the study ...

School students across an entire Victorian country council will receive letters from their local police officers each week as part of a touching tribute to fallen Leading Senior Constable Dennis Cox. Cox, 47, tragically died earlier this month when he was ...

Children born via caesarean section perform just as well at school as those who are vaginally birthed. Previously, research suggested C-section babies often had different microbes in their gut, which may influence their academic performance. But new research by academics in New ...

A new study of 4,202 young Australian women has found that more than a third of respondents have recently missed a whole day of school or university due to period paid, while roughly half said their period pain had affected ...