American educator and AVID CEO Dr Sandy Husk was in Australia recently attending a conference at Victoria University. AVID stands for Advancement Via Individual Determination and it's US initiative designed to help students learn and navigate education systems. Husk spoke with ...

Snapchat, used by teens in schools all over Australia, has joined the Children's eSafety Commissioner’s fight against cyber-bullying. Andree Wright, acting Children's eSafety Commissioner, said Snapchat would now work with the office to remove cyber-bullying material posted on the app. The ...

From catering for students seeking all levels of qualifications to a focus on wellbeing for the entire community, Aranmore Catholic’s principal wants to help everybody succeed. Each school day, between 30 and 50 young people eat at the Breakfast Club ...

Less than 7 per cent of schools in Australia are “fully able to give kids the best education in maths” at the advanced level, the Australian Mathematical Sciences Institute has estimated. AMSI director Geoff Prince made these comments to Education ...

The release of the Trends in International Maths and Science Study international rankings for Year 4 and Year 8 has produced a plethora of hand wringing about how badly Australia is doing. In amidst the claims that the data proves school funding ...

During the early years of a human’s life, trillions of brain-cell connections, called synapses, are formed, thanks to jolts of stimulation. As Donald Hebb’s theory rhymes, “neurons that fire together, wire together”. Brain stimulation can come from just about anything, ...

Federal education minister Simon Birmingham plans to use Australia's poor performance in the recent Trends In International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) to spruik the necessity of the government’s reforms to the states and territories. “When I sit down with my state ...

Waverley College, a Sydney independent school, has spent $23 million on a new building aimed at helping its students learn a trade and other vocational skills. In this centre is a BOSE speaker system, multimedia screens, retractable lighting bar and ...

While the federal government has endorsed a phonics check for Year 1 students, one researcher has warned that the check should not overextend its reach. Dr Jennifer Buckingham, an education researcher from the Centre of Independent Studies, recently completed a report ...

Future teachers could be required to have some skills similar to data scientists, as they’ll use such numbers to personalise learning, a Microsoft executive has said. Ray Fleming, Microsoft Australia’s education industry development manager, said there is potential for schools ...