The University of Sydney hosted a week of mentoring programs in mid-January 2017 for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander high school students. Pupils in years 9 and 10 were part of the Wingara Mura program while those in years 11 ...

Printing documents is such a quotidian part of life working in the education industry that one rarely considers it for more than a second. You receive an email you want to save for later meeting, an interesting piece of online ...

The Australian Bureau of Statistics estimated in 2014-15 that 158,000 Australians had type 1 diabetes. This is up from the same survey by the ABS in 2011-12, where 113,400 Australians were reported as having the condition. Furthermore, according to the ...

The parents of children born in 2017 may have to fork out $487,083 to put their child through K to 12 private schooling. This is the estimated national average bill for a private education by the latest iteration of the ...

Parents and teachers are being warned to be vigilant about asthma as they prepare for the new school year. Australian Institute of Health and Welfare data shows there is a spike in emergency department visits due to asthma in the ...

January is a quiet and relaxing time for students transitioning from the hectic nerves of high schools' final days to the exciting dawn of a new academic experience at university. As each sunny day passes, however, anxious anticipation starts taking ...

Parents who give their children alcohol double their kids’ chances of taking up drinking but decrease the risk of them binge drinking, new research has found. The study followed 2,000 students in year 7, and their parents, for four years ...

Sydney’s Malek Fahd Islamic School will continue the fight for public funding, with its management now intending to lodge an appeal to the Federal Court. On December 23 2016, the Administrative Appeals Tribunal (AAT) upheld the federal Education Department’s decision to ...

Australia’s largest Islamic school will have its $19 million in annual federal funding cut, following a decision by the Administrative Appeals Tribunal (AAT). Explaining the decision, Bernard McCabe, AAT deputy president, said he was not satisfied that Malek Fahd Islamic ...

A dispute between experts has emerged on whether Australian schools should adopt the same Year 1 phonics check currently being conducted in the UK. Phonics refers to the relationship between sounds people hear in spoken language and words seen in ...