Legendary: Game of Heroes is a free "intense and strategic puzzle role-playing game," its developer, N3twork, provides. "Build a team of legendary heroes, go on quests and defeat monsters. Your Legendary adventure begins today!" Although aimed at players aged 12 ...

A physical activity training program has cut risk of cardiovascular disease due to poor aerobic fitness in primary school students, researchers say. The mostly online tool, called iPLAY, has now been rolled out to 83 schools throughout NSW. iPLAY takes ...

Teachers and principals have been left in the dark when it comes to “the biggest Australian school curriculum reforms in decades”, the Australian Education Union (AEU) has said. AEU said the planned reforms were contained in a leaked draft report, ...

Some parents might offer but a cursory glance at a school newsletter sent home with their child. Others might chuck it straight in the bin. But one such communique has sparked the interest of Australian media and started a discussion about ...

Victorian children with disability are being turned away or discouraged from enrolling in government schools, while others aren’t receiving the support they need to participate fully in their education. That’s according to a report on educational outcomes for children with ...

Australia's youngest senator wants 16-year-olds to do something they've never done before: vote. "For far too long, politics has failed to properly represent young people or the issues they care about," Jordon Steele-John, a 23-year-old West Australian Greens representative, told parliament ...

Winter has started. Cold, short days add to the challenge of a long second term for teachers, students and families in Victoria. First term is now a distant memory but anyone associated with schools in Victoria would be saying to ...

In an age when the term 'fake news' is flung about by politicians and the public alike, students today need critical literacy skills more than ever, an Australian researcher has argued. To help this along, Professor Kathy Mills from Australian ...

What will today’s kindergarteners need to thrive and not just survive in the 21st century? This was the question the NSW Department of Education challenged a consortium of University of Sydney experts to unpack. In particular, the Department wanted the ...

It's a clash of two titans: Dr Robert Slavin versus Laureate Professor John Hattie. The former is an influential American education policy academic, the latter hardly needs an introduction in international education circles. In a blog post entitled 'John Hattie is wrong', ...