"The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.” – CS Lewis Like plants need water to grow, we believe learning requires inquiry to flourish. We have a 58-centimetre-tall NAO humanoid robot named P!nk at Our ...

Two creative competitions to test school students' artistic acumen have launched this week. The first is the 2016 Dorothea Mackellar Poetry Awards and the second is short-film competition Screen It 2016. Both are open to all students in Australian primary and ...

When Christopher Hall was in primary school, a fellow student from his year failed to show up to class on Monday. The teacher simply said he wouldn’t be coming to class anymore. It turned out that over the weekend this young ...

Despite the young adolescent period's significant physical, intellectual and emotional foment, the children-cum-teens in this 8–14-year-old age group receive relatively little attention from policymakers and academics. That is one of the findings from The Australian Child Wellbeing Project (ACWP) report prepared ...

Educational research and policy has ignored students in their middle years and this neglect is increasing marginalisation, a new report has argued. The final report of the Australian Child Wellbeing Project (ACWP) – a collaboration between the Australian Council for ...

Safe Schools Coalition Australia said it was not fazed by the announcement that it would be the subject of a government investigation and welcomed it as a chance to “demonstrate the positive impact of this important program and provide the ...

Research has pinpointed Google and parents as more of a hindrance than a help to students’ learning – but not Wikipedia. A survey by online tutors YourTutor.com.au has revealed that in 1200 households with children aged 5 to 18, 84 per cent ...

Save Our Schools has spruiked figures that indicate growth in government funding for private schools has outpaced public schools. This is despite a recent Centre of Independent Students report to the contrary. One School does not Fit All revealed the per ...

Houston had no problems after Normanhurst Boys High School students reported mission accomplished on their task to work with NASA robots on the International Space Station. These boys were one of 10 teams sponsored by the University of Sydney to ...

Hard copy textbooks have survived the initial waves of digital disruption and they’re here to stay – for a little while anyway. Retailers and publishers have all been hit by digital disruption. In 2011, bookstore giant REDgroup Retail – former ...