Among the fixtures of classrooms conjured up when on imagines schooling – tables and chairs, lockers for books and hooks for coats, the teacher’s desk and bunting for juvenile art – few are as storied as the blackboard. This surface ...

Keep the lock on the bike, leave the car in the garage, don't bother with the train ticket and tell Otto to take the morning off! Friday 20 May 2016 is National Walk Safely to School Day! In its 17th year ...

Many parents stop reading aloud to their children to get them reading independently but a new report has found this doesn't foster a love of reading. The Kids & Family Reading Report – from school book publishing giant Scholastic – elaborated that ...

Students can now skate their way through the Victorian K-10 Curriculum. O’Brien Group Arena ice rink offers sessions, coaching and programs, that include AusVels’ Health Sciences and Physical Education components. The ice rink consulted a former teacher for 18 months. Paul Keisler, O’Brien ...

Children who are better at recognising patterns are better at learning grammar, research has found, challenging traditional theories of language learning. The researchers tested just under 70 children, aged between 6 and 8, on grammar and pattern recognition. The team ...

If social media is in any position to judge, Headspace’s online anti-cyberbullying tool, named reword, complete with strikethrough, is Orwellian. But Chris Tanti, Headspace chief executive, says this isn’t so and school kids who use the tool don’t feel this way. Similar ...

There’s no doubt that school funding will be a significant election issue and that what the Australian Labor Party and the Australian Education Union describe as the 'Gonski funding model' will be centre stage. Notwithstanding the AEU’s ‘I give a ...

Professional learning delivered by academics to teachers in Queensland’s Bowen Basin has improved reading ability in the local schoolchildren. The project involved University of Queensland education experts instructing teachers in local communities. The academics showed the teachers techniques for reading education, and observed ...

The Australian Greens are taking the policy of $4.6 billion in Gonski funding for students with disabilities – to be rolled out over the next four years – to the next election. Styling themselves as the only party to fund the needs of ...

If the peak body for group training organisations gets its way, the upcoming federal Budget will contain proposals to run all school-based apprenticeships through group training. Group training is an employment arrangement whereby a GTO recruits apprentices, and places them with host ...