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; ...

Australian students are participating in Australia’s largest-ever study of the effectiveness of mental health apps in preventing anxiety and depression in youth. Backed by the Black Dog Institute, the “world-first study” called Future Proof will be trialled in 400 schools and ...

It’s commonly known that teaching is a feminised profession, particularly in the primary years. In fact, a University of Tasmania study found that male teachers accounted for a mere 18.26 per cent of primary school teachers, down from 30.24 per ...

“Never put yourself at risk in order to reach an examination centre,” NSW Minister for Education Sarah Mitchell urged HSC students on Twitter.  The warning is repeated in an official statement from the Minister on the NSW Department of Education ...

As a society we place a lot of trust in teachers, and the idea of socialising a child hinges on the trust that a teacher – and by extension school leadership – can provide. As you can imagine, these issues ...