Australia’s largest supplier of education resources to secondary schools has congratulated the Indigenous Literacy Foundation (ILF) for its tireless work in bolstering young Indigenous Australians’ literacy levels and engagement across remote parts of Australia. Campion Education partnered with ILF in ...

The sense that Australian teachers have been teaching increasingly diverse classrooms has been confirmed, according to a new report released from the Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER). More specifically, the study concluded that Australian lower secondary schools and teachers ...

Tens of thousands of young Australians have “disappeared” from the school system, a new report says. A University of Melbourne report brings to light the issue of Australians of compulsory school age who are not participating in an education program ...

Clarkson Primary School in Perth has kindled debate over children’s playtime after the school decided it would replace free play at recess with structural play in a move to get students engaging with one another. Principal Tony Shields said he ...

A new mental health program has been shown to improve teenagers’ ability to recognise friends who may be at risk of suicide and support them, new research has found. Researchers from the University of Melbourne have assessed the impact of ...

A teenager has been taken to hospital after a knife fight broke out at a school in Dubbo in central west NSW. The fight broke out about 10.40am on Wednesday, as the two sixteen-year-old boys confronted each other, with one ...

Australian educators are finding themselves working with cutting-edge technology across the board, often getting up to speed with this technology just ahead of using it to teach their students. This puts pressure on educators to learn about complex topics quickly, ...

Five more schools will work with the University of Canberra on classroom-based research geared towards improving teaching. The Affiliated Schools Program sees teachers take on the role of researcher, allowing them to develop and evaluate new approaches to meet the ...

Public schools of both low and high socioeconomic status (SES) are being privatised “from within” by parental contributions that fuel inequality, a new study has found. In their study entitled ‘Inequalities in the private funding of public schools: parent financial ...

Is Australian children’s literacy in crisis? Among teachers, academics and politicians, the consensus is largely ‘yes’ – or we’re wobbling precariously on the edge. While primary years performance tends to be strong, something happens in the transition to high school; ...