Youth mental health advocate headspace (self-styled with a lower case initial) has warned teachers to look out for the hit Netflix drama, 13 Reasons Why, and its impact on students because of its narrative and graphic depiction of suicide in ...

Thousands of teachers worldwide educate students in areas outside of their expertise – and this isn’t just limited to subject knowledge. As the Australian Catholic University’s Dr Anna Du Plessis outlines in her book, Out-of-Field Teaching Practices: What Educational Leaders Need ...

Tasmania will cut the Safe Schools program after federal funding expires, being the second state to do so in a week, following the lead of New South Wales. Federal funding for the anti-bullying and education initiative expires at the end of ...

The national digitisation of NAPLAN isn’t being processed smoothly by the states and territories. Queensland is the latest state to pull out of the NAPLAN online testing trial. The sunshine state education minister Kate Jones made this announcement on 7 ...

The UK minister of state for school standards has advised a federal phonics panel, which is looking at introducing a mandatory, nationwide Year 1 phonics check. While the details of what Nick Gibb told the panel are unknown, he did ...

Mfaume Kakozi, 18, lives life to the beat of his own drum. Born in central Africa’s Democratic Republic of Congo, he fled his homeland at a young age due of war. He made his way to a refugee camp in ...

Excessive sausage rolls and hot chips unsurprisingly contribute to boys’ obesity. But unexpectedly, not so much to girls’, a new study has found. Researchers from Queensland’s QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute also ascertained that, oddly, girls from single parent families ...

Psychologist Steve Biddulph thinks girls have it tougher than they used to. His latest tome, 10 Things Girls Need Most, teases out what he considers to be the crux of girls’ issues: parental anxiety. Biddulph calls it an "Anglo-Saxon disease” ...

Sport is a cornerstone of Australian culture but children with disabilities often miss out. A Deakin University program is hoping to change this with the help of the AFL, the National Disability Insurance Agency and Moose Toys. AllPlay, led by ...

“I wiggled awound the woom at west-time”, two-year-old Lara proclaimed. By this, of course, she meant she wriggled around the room at rest-time. If this speech pattern persisted, Lara might’ve been diagnosed with an articulation disorder. But, like many other ...