The ABC has launched a deluge of 400 online resources to help students and teachers with STEM topics. ABC’s education website, Splash, has unveiled these resources to assist teachers in STEM education, especially with the new digital technologies section of ...

Rhetoric around youth unemployment must change, an expert has argued. Australian Bureau of Statistics figures rest youth unemployment at 12.44 per cent, although it declined in the last quarter. Debate on the issue has centred on the notion of a skills gap – education ...

To celebrate the start of the 2016 school year in Victoria, the Australian Education Union (Vic/Tas) hosted its first forum dedicated to LGBTIQ issues facing students, teachers and other staff in the public system on Saturday, February 6. The forum ...

A Victorian law firm has released a toolkit to help schools prevent institutionalised child abuse. The Victorian Government recently introduced a suite of changes to ensure child safety. This includes strengthening the regulatory role of the Victorian Registration and Qualifications ...

Progress on meeting the stated goals of the Closing the Gap initiative has been mixed, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said today in a speech. The PM praised Indigenous leaders and the other major parties for their collaborative approach to the ...

Schools could soon become a prominent feature in Sydney's skyline, the architects of the city’s newest high-rise school have argued. Parramatta’s upcoming 14-storey Arthur Phillip High School, with its adjoining Parramatta Public School, is the figurehead of the NSW Education ...

A University of Sydney expert has launched a scathing attack on a federal government schools deradicalisation program that seeks to follow New South Wales' example. In a joint announcement this week, federal education minister Simon Birmingham and federal justice minister Michael ...

“The children, as soon as they have become at all expert in this tracing of the letters, take great pleasure in repeating it with closed eyes, letting the sandpaper lead them in following the form which they do not see.” This ...

Teaching degrees are used by universities as a cash cow and this can partially explain startling teacher attrition rates, an expert has said. Recent research from the Australian National University has shown that 30 to 50 per cent of teachers ...