Two Australian education experts have offered some advice to improve students' chances of success as Year 12 students across the country prepare to finish a unique and highly challenging academic year. Andrew Martin is Scientia Professor and Professor of Educational ...

An internal government report has called for the Literacy and Numeracy Test for Initial Teacher Education (LANTITE) to be held at the beginning of education degrees, so students aren’t potentially wasting their time. In comes after revelations that almost one ...

While NSW Year 12 students have been given the go-ahead to attend graduations and formals in a COVID-safe way, it is still uncertain whether such events will be broadly allowed in Victoria and other, non-public schools in NSW. Another unknown ...

The latest Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) report highlights that Australia’s public spending on education is shrouded by private investment and is below the OECD average. Dr Emma Rowe, an expert in school funding and education policy at ...

A controversial strategy that involved moving Indigenous Australian students off country and relocating them at boarding schools to improve their educational opportunities has failed, a new report concludes. The report was led by Dr Marnie O’Bryan and Dr William Fogarty ...

A Flinders University researcher has highlighted that developing students’ ability to self-regulate their learning will be one of the most critical skills to develop during the COVID pandemic, with the growing shift to online learning. Professor Stella Vosniadou has concluded ...

Three literacy and learning organisations are urging education ministers and heads of public school systems across the country to ensure students finish their primary years with the skills to read. On Thursday Five from Five; AUSPELD, the Australian federation of ...

A recent study by Dr Lesley-Anne Ey of UniSA and Professor Marilyn Campbell of the Queensland University of Technology revealed that only a fraction of parents can accurately describe what bullying is. As part of the study titled ‘Do Parents ...

A recent study involving more than 4,000 participants found that both male and female students are likely to experience some form of sexual harassment in NSW high schools, and that male students are more likely to experience six of the ...

Who would have thought that emojis, conceived over 20 years ago and called emoticons, would become a useful part of helping students accept online feedback and motivate them in these times of remote learning? But RMIT psychology lecturer Robyn Moffitt ...