Rather than simply being a distraction, laptops help senior high school students achieve in science, new research shows. In his PhD thesis for the University of Sydney, Simon Crook – a former physics teacher with 15 years’ experience – demonstrated ...

A South Australian education expert has picked apart federal education minister Simon Birmingham’s call for “zero tolerance” in classroom bad behaviour, branding it as an argument based on ideology not evidence. Last week, Birmingham leapt on Programme for International Student ...

One in 33 children received child protection services in 2015–16 to shield them from abuse, new statistics from the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW)  have shown. During this time, 162,000 children accessed child protection services. This represented a ...

It’s time for episode 20 of Talking Eds! in this week’s bumper edition the team behind Campus Review, Education Review and Early Learning Review look at labeling’s adverse effect on children, whether mindfulness triggers past traumas and spar over Bond University’s new pathways ...

Australian school teachers spend a fifth of their holidays at work or working from home, a new survey has found. The survey of 1014 school teachers by First Point Research and Consulting – and commissioned by multinational education publisher Pearson ...

The new reports on TIMSS and PISA results are a more detailed examination of last year’s ‘first look’ reports.  The Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) and Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) are different, but complementary international ...

Classroom mindfulness can cause anxiety and stress in students who’ve experienced trauma, an expert has warned. Flinders University education academic Dr Leigh Burrows has advised that teachers who want to use the practice should learn their student’s backgrounds and not ...

CareMonkey, is a cloud-based solution that allows parents to share their children’s sensitive medical information securely with schools, clubs, sporting organisations, and other groups and individuals. Troy Westley is its CEO and cofounder. The above featured picture is what CareMonkey looks ...

New research shows that today’s supposedly tech-addicted children can still be bookworms. This, however, is more likely if they’re given a hard copy. The influence of access to eReaders, computers and mobile phones on children’s book reading frequency, published in ...

A visually compelling environment is considered essential to happy learning; no-one wants their child to be taught in a shabby and cluttered classroom. Yet, with kids spending half of their classroom time listening to the teacher, little attention has been ...