A report commissioned by the National Broadband Network (nbn) and the Regional Australia Institute has argued half of Australians will need high-level IT skills by 2030, and will also need to retain soft skills like communication and critical thinking. The ...

Closing the economic gap via education is key to prevent a Trump-like political movement occurring in Australia, the International Education Association of Australia said. At the same time, professor Chris Ziguras, president of the IEAA, said an America with Trump at the ...

Collaboration was key for Hayball Architects' Lisa Horton’s design for blending together schools. Melbourne’s Dandenong High School is an amalgamation of three existing schools. It has to cater for more than 2100 students. Horton said the successful design was a direct result of a 10-year collaboration ...

Mathspace, an Australian educational technology startup that provides software, has announced a two-pronged expansion into local primary schools and the US. Mathspace secured a deal with multinational publisher Pearson Education to launch the company's software for an estimated 9 million students in the ...

By 2018, teachers across the country will be required to teach the latest subject craze – coding – as the incoming Digital Technologies Curriculum mandates. And while many teachers have extensive experience at educating young minds in areas such as ...

Only one-third of Year 7–10 students are being taught maths by a qualified maths teacher, the Australian Mathematical Sciences Institute has warned. AMSI director professor Geoff Prince explained that this figure is not uniform for all types of schools; those in ...

In this week's episode of Talking Eds, the team behind Campus Review, Education Review and Early Learning Review look at why parental leave double dipping seems destined to say, hear from several youngsters on the importance of listening to abuse claims, ...

A bipartisan organisation that has been advocating for improvements in Indigenous education is now unable to make its rent after the federal government defunded it in 2014. The National Congress of Australia’s First Peoples once received $14 million in federal ...

A panel of young people have spoken out about what they would like to see change in the handling of sexual abuse allegations at schools. Ben, Julia, Elizabeth, Claire and Jaimsie were all involved in a long-running research study for the Royal ...

What’s more stressful, end-of-year exams or a bear attack? Common sense would suggest the latter, but one educational expert has said some students find exams so nerve-racking that the stress response triggered in a test setting is similar to that ...