Australians believe school students don’t spend enough time playing but can’t agree on what that should mean for break time. A national survey has found around nine in 10 Aussies feel play helps children build skills, while a majority believe ...

The disability royal commission heard earlier today that some teachers are “resisting diversity” by not catering to the learning and behavioural needs of students with a disability. While three special education teachers told the commission that all students should be ...

Day one of the Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of People with a Disability centred on a disturbing tale of a girl with Down syndrome whose early school years involved being excluded, segregated and abused. The Commission, ...

Child advocates have called on the federal government for $10 million to fund a national rollout of a program to stop kids dropping out of school. Save the Children has pointed to the recent Productivity Commission mental health report, which ...

Education will be the first issue addressed in Townsville today at the hearing of the Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of People with a Disability. The importance of education to children and adults with a disability is ...

Mobile phone use will be banned during school hours at West Australian public schools from next year, with the state government saying it will reduce distraction from studies and encourage face-to-face social interaction. Students will also be prohibited from using ...

Students are deciding to study at TAFE rather than university for its merits – not as a “fallback”. That was one of the findings to come from Monash University’s Vocational Institutions, Undergraduate Degrees, Distinction or Inequality interim report. Among the reasons ...

More than a fifth of young people with disability have been subjected to some form of restraint at school in the past year, new research shows. One parent said they were encouraged to medicate their son – who was aged between seven ...

The Morrison government has torpedoed an independent inquiry into the impact of anti-discrimination laws on faith-based schools and organisations. The Australian Law Reform Commission (ALRC) was part-way through a review into religious exemptions in anti-discrimination laws. It had conducted several consultations and ...

Make school uniform rules uniform. That’s the call from an associate professor in psychology. Flinders University’s Sarah Cohen-Woods says efforts to provide students of all genders with comfortable and practical uniforms are being hampered by differing legislative requirements around Australia. ...