School leavers thinking about heading to university now have a new metric to weigh up when considering their study options. The Good Universities Guide has this year featured a ‘First Generation’ five-star rating. Released as part of the 2019 guide ...

Want a cognitively optimal child? Canadian researchers have found a winning formula: one hour of exercise + minimal recreational screen time + plenty of sleep. While the finding may be intuitive, their study of 4.500 American nine and 10-year-olds provides evidence for it. Using ...

There’s no doubt that Leonardo da Vinci was a visionary, but should some of his machines be built today, they would be little more than fascinating sculptures. Indeed, a BBC documentary famously argued that Da Vinci’s machines were designed to ...

While the prospect of robots replacing teachers is a long way off, the impact of technology is fundamentally changing the profession. Artificial intelligence, machine learning and individually tailored educational software are already transforming the way we teach and the way ...

Mea culpa. That’s how Wentworth by-election candidate Dave Sharma signed off on an apology tweet for comments he made in the Sydney Morning Herald a few months ago. In an opinion piece for the publication, the Liberal Party candidate for ...

A total of 303 million children worldwide are not in school, with more than a third of that number living in conflict zones or countries affected by natural disasters, according to the United Nations. That means a third of 5-17 ...

Teachers facing serious criminal offences would be immediately suspended under new laws introduced to the South Australian parliament. The state government recently introduced legislation to amend the Teacher Registration and Standards Act 2004 to enable the Teachers Registration Board of ...

Industry leaders have called for caps on places in teaching degrees, following an ABC report that universities are offering places to students who leave schools with ATAR scores close to zero. The figures are contained in a confidential report obtained ...

Thousands of childcare workers are walking off the job to push for higher wages, but the federal education minister says he doesn't decide pay rates. About 7000 early childhood workers went on strike on Wednesday afternoon to hold rallies across ...

Nine new books written in Kriol have been launched to help boost Indigenous literacy. Students from St Joseph’s Catholic College in Katherine, Northern Territory, took their first trip to the big smoke, visiting the Sydney Opera House for Indigenous Literacy ...