In this week's episode of Talking Eds, the team behind Campus Review, Education Review and Early Learning Review unpack body image issues on the preschool playground, look into the University of Southern Queensland ecologist who was forced to withdraw from ...

If tablet technology is going to be used in the classroom, open-ended apps should be employed, to prevent tablets from becoming “21st century shut-up sheets”, one teacher has advised. Grant Jones, a technology teacher at St Marys Public School in Sydney’s ...

A new report from Mission Australia shows 10 per cent of Indigenous young men aged 15 to 19, and 5 per cent of Indigenous women of this age, rate their happiness as 0 out of 10. Only 1 per cent of ...

R U OK? Or, as it is sounded out, Are You Okay? Thursday, September 8 is RUOK? Day, a designated moment in our lives to turn our attention to friends, family, colleagues, acquaintances, fellow students and even strangers, and take an interest ...

It takes a community – the modern-day village – to keep a child safe. That’s the key message of this year’s annual National Child Protection Week, which began on Sunday. The event is organised by the National Association for Prevention ...

Nature Research, the publishing group behind the prestigious scientific journal Nature, has launched a website to make complex science accessible to the general public.  The npj Science of Learning Community website was launched in collaboration with the University of Queensland. It aims to make ...

Genius Hour is becoming a trend in schools in Australia and globally. And one teacher has warned teachers shouldn’t tell the students they will assess it, and shouldn't mark it via a rubric. Otherwise, they'll just get slide show presentations. And if ...

News Corp’s Herald Sun newspaper will launch its Kids News website next year, with the goal of delivering age-appropriate information to school children – helping teachers discuss current affairs in the classroom. The website will be edited by Karina Grift, the Herald Sun’s education editor. ...

Primary school principal sees the value of building and applying command skills in everything from classroom teaching and learning to succession planning. When Susanne Fisher speaks about staff at Humpty Doo Primary School, where she is principal, she describes their ...

It is the best of times and the worst of times for Working With Children Checks (WWCCs). South Australia is leading the other states and territories by example. A plan to revamp SA's WWCCs by establishing portable checks valid for ...