The following is an open letter from a prototypical foster kid on their first day of school: Dear Miss Kendall, Tomorrow will be my first day at school and you’ll be my teacher, so I thought I’d let you know ...

The Australian private tutoring industry has been Ubered by a pair of software engineers operating out of Brisbane. For co-chief executives and founders Sam Robertson and Cameron Schmidt, the story of Scooter Tutor began in 2007. Schmidt initially came up ...

An education academic has argued that Adrian Piccoli “needed to go” from the NSW education portfolio, following newly minted premier Gladys Berejiklian’s cabinet reshuffle. Piccoli, a NSW Nationals MP, was replaced with Rob Stokes, who previously sat in the planning ...

Playball Australia is a sports-based school-readiness program that seeks to impart social skills, resilience, hand-eye coordination, concentration, confidence, life skills and cognitive skills, all via the magic of playing with balls! Tammy Ceppi is the Australian ballmaster, corralling the teams of ...

“Nothing good happens after midnight.” Michael Thorn, chief executive of the Foundation for Alcohol Research and Education (FARE), drops this aphorism in a conversation about lockout laws. The erosion of lockout laws, and how it affects the wellbeing of children, ...

Across Australia, four, five and six-year-olds are feeling anxious, exhilarated, or possibly both. Their first day of ‘big school’ is imminent. Although this year goes by various names – prep, kindergarten, year K – there is one commonality: parental uncertainty ...

Soon after the school year begins, it's time for the annual swimming carnival. But, as a new study from Deakin University has shown, all the calories burnt off by the kids in the pool are often quickly replaced by a ...

Researchers have found that the youngest children in classrooms are twice as likely to be diagnosed with ADHD as their older peers, raising concerns that kids are being medicated with amphetamine-based drugs for age-related immaturity. The study found that among ...

In a bumper first episode of Talking Eds for 2017, the team behind Campus Review, Education Review and Early Learning Review look at how adopted babies are recalling language skills, epigenetic twin variations, international student destinations, non-completion rates at Australian universities ...

Maths should be fun – that’s the message to teachers from one expert. Western Sydney University’s associate professor Catherine Attard, an expert in primary maths education, said fun is the best medicine for relieving maths boredom. “When children are actually ...