Lunchboxes have recently been unpacked. Last month, the ABC published an investigation of their contents in wealthier and poorer Melbourne suburbs. While, by comparing Oreos packed in Broadmeadows to carrot sticks lovingly placed in Brighton, it invited food-shaming, a new Monash ...

In Swedish, orkidebarn means ‘orchid child’. It refers to those who are more sensitive. Maskrosbarn, ‘dandelion child’, on the other hand, means the opposite. Like their namesake bloom, these children are hardy. Dr Thomas Boyce, an emeritus professor of pediatrics and psychiatry at ...

Few education students expect to have a job immediately after graduating and they’re less likely than those from other disciplines to feel that their course provided them with the skills they need. That’s according to a student survey conducted by ...

School children would again be taught about how to grow fruit, vegetables and herbs and use them to make healthy meals through a federal government-funded program if Labor wins the next election. The opposition has pledged to restore funding for ...

Principals are working long hours, increasingly at risk of violence and being buried under excessive admin. That’s according to the latest Australian Principal Occupational Health, Safety and Wellbeing survey, which highlighted the stressors taking a toll on principals’ wellbeing. The ...

Should you tap your way to feeling less stressed? Or is plain old ‘switching off’ the better option? That’s what Bond University researchers hope to confirm as part of a new study into psychological interventions for stress. Research lead Associate ...

More than 1000 demountable classrooms in NSW would be replaced with permanent, air-conditioned facilities under a $500 million election promise by Labor. On Sunday, state Opposition leader Michael Daley announced Labor would divert the $500 million from the Berejiklian government’s ...

The ACT government will remove the religious work of chaplains from Canberra public schools from the end of the year by withdrawing from the School Chaplaincy program. The state’s education minister Yvette Berry said the territory’s education act mandated that ...

All in all, Australians are pretty happy with the state of classroom education. Despite a hefty amount of negative media attention, a new nation-wide survey of 2052 adults has revealed that Australians are largely positive about the level of education ...

A national academy to provide specialist leadership training for school principals will be set up if Labor wins the next federal election. A recent review found high performing school leaders add between two and seven months’ worth of growth in ...