The school year has commenced and already there has been a flood of media coverage related to mathematics. The most interesting and important information relates to the pending release of the mathematics curriculum review as announced by ACARA in 2020.  ...

Three of Australia’s teacher education experts have questioned statements made by education minister Alan Tudge that a review is needed into initial teacher education (ITE) courses and that some beginning teachers are not equipped for the classroom because they are ...

The NSW Premier has thrown her weight behind a push to allow students at a private school in Sydney’s west to wear pants. Girls at Croydon’s Presbyterian Ladies’ College have started a petition requesting a change of the uniform to make it ...

An online petition that calls for more robust and earlier education about consent in Australian schools has amassed over 30,000 signatures as state governments react to a growing number of accounts of sexual assault on school grounds. The petition, started ...

The UK government has given schools the green light to invite students back into physical classrooms, but they will be expected to test for COVID-19 every week at home. In a statement released over the weekend, Downing Street said many ...

Victorian Education Minister James Merlino says "a number of courses of action" have been taken to address systemic racism in the largest regional school merger in the state. A damning report commissioned by the Victorian Department of Education found the Greater ...

The former headmaster of one of Melbourne’s most prestigious private schools has pleaded guilty to fraud after it was discovered he didn’t have any teaching qualifications. Former Caulfield Grammar School headmaster Neil Lennie entered the pleas in the County Court of Victoria ...

Teenagers are dominating presentations to hospital for sunburn, sparking the Cancer Council’s SunSmart team to call for better education in high schools. New data shows presentations to Victorian hospital emergency departments for sunburn last summer were highest among teenagers. The ...

A South Australian school is doubling down on efforts to reduce stress and anxiety among students. Working with Concordia College, Flinders University researchers last year pinpointed three wellbeing priorities for the whole school – psychological skills, body image education, and ...

A Sydney private school prefect has urged his fellow students to change their attitudes towards women after a petition among female students revealed horrific allegations of sexual abuse. Year 12 Cranbrook student Asher Learmonth spoke before his fellow senior school ...