A researcher is seeking feedback from parents of school-aged children across the country as part of a project aimed at understanding and improving relationships between families and schools. Charles Sturt University student Kathryn Dalton is investigating how parents and guardians ...

Adam Giles has struck quickly, sacking the organiser of the failed bid to oust him as Northern Territory chief minister. Education Minister Robyn Lambley was dumped from the ministry after helping rally nine members of the Country Liberals parliamentary wing ...

A Sydney-based primary schoolteacher who says she “fell into” science education has won the 2015 winner of the BHP Billiton Science and Engineering Teacher Award. Philippa Miller, who first arrived from New Zealand to teach in Australia some 23 years ...

Parents have long suspected it, but now doctors have proof: the more time teenagers spend on computers or mobile phones, the less they sleep, especially if the gadget is used just before bedtime. The evidence is so strong that health ...

South Australian manufacturing minister Susan Close has taken over the state's education and child development portfolio following the resignation of Jennifer Rankine. Upper House MP Kyam Maher, who was elevated into cabinet following Rankine's resignation on Monday, will take over Close's ...

A La Trobe University-backed DVD featuring a series of light-hearted vignettes is poised to help high-school teachers reduce the awkwardness of sex education lessons this year. The DVD, Ask Granddad, is being rolled out as part of the ongoing partnership between ...

Inadequate levels of privacy afforded to South Australian children taking part in school-based immunisation programs has been highlighted as an ethical failing in new research released by the University of Adelaide. By observing immunisation days held at nine schools chosen ...

Scores of young children will receive a range of free back- to-school readiness screening services offered by the Queensland University of Technology. Amongst the offerings is free testing carried out by supervised provisionally registered psychology interns designed to identify potential ...

The doomed city of Pompeii has been unveiled by the University of Sydney as its latest in a series of historic scene re-creations constructed entirely from Lego building blocks. A model of the city famously destroyed by the eruption of ...

Newly released survey data has highlighted the chasm between the total cost of a private and public education nationally whilst also revealing variations across state, metropolitan and regional boundaries. The data, released this week by the Australian Scholarships Group (ASG), ...