“The children, as soon as they have become at all expert in this tracing of the letters, take great pleasure in repeating it with closed eyes, letting the sandpaper lead them in following the form which they do not see.” This ...

A stigma against autism is “reasonably common” throughout Australian schools, an expert has argued. A recent Senate inquiry found parents of kids with autism are actively discouraged by some schools from enrolling their child. This occurs across the public, independent and ...

Girl power can help solve Australia’s chronic shortage of engineers, and work on the career pipeline should begin in school, experts have expressed. Australia annually imports 12,000 engineers to fill job gaps. One quarter of these come on temporary work ...

Price is guiding many parents' choice of educational technology, a new survey has found – but it shouldn't be. A study from Microsoft Australia has revealed just under a quarter of parents purchased the wrong piece of technology for their child’s learning. The study ...

For-profit is the best model for educational enterprises to thrive, survive and teach – the co-founder of Maths Pathway has said. Maths Pathway, established by former teachers Richard Wilson and Justin Matthys, contracts with schools to develop mathematics learning models. It has delivered models ...

Children should learn computer coding from Year 3 onwards, a writer of the National Curriculum has said. University of Sydney associate professor James Curran, who helped develop the computer science subjects of the curriculum, said as software is influencing almost every ...

School attendance is on the rise at one Papua New Guinea school, and researchers say its new playground could be responsible. Truancy is an issue throughout PNG. Only 55 per cent of primary age children are enrolled in school and ...

Australia must address growing inequity across the school system in 2016, experts agree. The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development shows Australia’s schools are becoming socially stratified. OECD figures in the Going for Growth 2015 report show a direct correlation ...

Refugees on temporary visas and about 29,000 asylum seekers may miss out on education because they are ineligible for government aid to help meet the substantial financial costs. To go to university, refugees on Temporary Protection Visas and asylum seekers must pay full ...

An initiative getting trouble-making teens out of court and into class has received a five star review from Victoria University. 950 young people a year appear before in criminal cases at Victoria’s Children’s Court each year. The Education Justice Initiative ...