The State Library of Victoria will no longer be just a silo for quiet study and reflection but an active area of learning – if enough funds can be raised. The new designs for the library, from architecture firms Architectus and ...

A senior figure within the Canadian-based education group, the Arrowsmith Program, has defended the organisation's model following fresh criticism from an Australian expert that much of the evidence used to prove its effectiveness is drawn from preliminary data in research and conference ...

The Independent Schools Council of Australia has expressed extreme concern over possible changes in government school funding arrangements. Colette Colman, the lobby group’s chief executive, has written a letter to all federal MPs. In the letter, Colman wrote that “sudden ...

Many children are very familiar with fairytales, songs and games in which the Big Bad Wolf is a character. Whether it is the song Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf, the fairytales The Three Little Pigs and Little Red Riding ...

People with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) can harness their symptoms by becoming entrepreneurs, researchers say. A study by the University of Bath in England found symptoms such as hyperactivity and impulsiveness, which pose daily challenges to those with ADHD, ...

The educational gap between city and regional is growing, a new report has shown, prompting a call for people in the country to enrol in some form of education. The Regional Australia Institute (RAI)’s Human Capital Index, released Tuesday 28 ...

Science isn’t the only field with a leaky gender pipeline: economics suffers similar issues. An analysis of data from the NSW Education Standards Authority by Danielle Wood, an economist, Grattan Institute fellow and chair of the newly established Women in ...

A new report from Victoria University’s Mitchell Institute has argued that schools must focus more on students’ character, or in the paper's term, students' “capabilities”. Professor Bill Lucas – the Mitchell Institute’s international adviser and director of the Centre for ...

David Robertson is the executive director of Independent Schools Queensland. He is currently encouraging parents of children finishing primary school to explore the various high school options available to these students via open days and school tours. Independent schools come ...

Altering the brain to cure a child’s dyslexia. That’s what the Arrowsmith Program claims it can do, and it is claims like this that raise the eyebrows of experts around the world. The brainchild of Canadian entrepreneur and author, Barbara Arrowsmith ...