The best computer programming secondary school students from across the country are getting together at a School of Excellence event in Canberra, December 9-19. As part of the process, 26 students attending the event will ultimately be selected to compete ...

As part of the Bridges to Higher Education program, educational leaders and Indigenous students from five NSW universities recently joined forces with the National Centre of Indigenous Excellence (NCIE) to engage with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students, their families ...

Local teens’ literacy assessments dip in worldwide rankings. Australian students are slipping in mathematics and reading literacy, the latest Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) has shown. Fifteen-year-olds who took part in the assessment performed equal 17th in mathematics, equal ...

School students get extra dose of health experience on campus. Students from Rockhampton’s Emmaus College who are enrolling in a Certificate 3 in Allied Health Assistance recently spent three days at CQUniversity as part of a HealthLink experience, flagging a ...

The number of young people not in work or study has dropped sharply in the past year and the ACCI is passionate about the need to take action on the problem. By John Mitchell.  If a competition were held to ...

From chemistry and biology to maths and even English, it seems no subject is immune to the magic of the wonderful world revealed by the digital microscope. By Fran Molloy. Microscopes have come a long way from the heavy, difficult-to-use ...

The results are in – when schools are built to sustainable principles, students learn better, everyone is healthier, absenteeism is down and costs are reduced. By Dallas Bastian. “If you can provide indoor environment qualities such as better comfort, more ...

The excursion has long been a staple of the school experience, and teachers today have a wide and rich variety to choose from. By Dallas Bastian. We take a look at some of the more engaging and thought-provoking excursions available ...

  Teachers can help students cope with the stress of end-of-school exams. By Antonia Maiolo. As high school students around Australia sit their finals, Virginia Williams, youth psychologist and honorary fellow at the school of psychology at the University of ...

  An enterprising teacher has shown how even primary age children can use data and technology to engage with the wider world. By Fran Molloy. Anne Mirtschin is an economics teacher at Hawkesdale P12 College in the Western District of ...