Online learning was thrown into chaos on Monday morning, with technology giant Zoom suffering a widespread outage. Reports to outage website Down Detector spiked from almost zero on Sunday evening to almost 1200 by 9am on Monday. The outage caused ...

A new study by researchers from Europe and the United States has found that where kids sit in a classroom matters. In a field study in Hungarian primary schools, a total of 3,000 students were randomly transferred to almost 200 ...

A former senior teacher at one of Sydney’s most elite private schools has avoided jail for sending sexual messages to who he thought was a 13-year-old girl. Alexander David Simpson, who taught at boys’ school Trinity Grammar in the city’s inner west, ...

The Bondi COVID-19 cluster crippling greater Sydney is threatening to bleed out into the regions of NSW, as two schools in the north of the state shut after positive cases among students. The ongoing lockdown and growing daily cases is ...

Australians could receive their Covid-19 jab at schools, sports stadiums, supermarkets or shopping centres as part of a nationwide blitz to get everyone vaccinated by the end of the year. National Covid vaccine task force co-ordinator Lieutenant General John Frewen ...

Short active breaks during class have been shown to improve a child's brain function and aid learning. New research dismisses the notion that children need to be sat down all day to learn effectively, and short bursts of activity help ...

School‐aged children are being exposed to an increasing number of vaping and e‐cigarette videos on TikTok, prompting calls for more regulation of the social media platform. University of Queensland researchers analysed more than 800 videos featuring the modern smoking practice. ...

Schools with green surroundings may have better academic performance as a result, new research has found. A study from the Australian Catholic University also found that exposure to high levels of traffic-related noise pollution could be detrimental to academic performance. ...

Only 31 per cent of teachers surveyed for Oxford University Press’ (OUP) The Evolution of Science Education Report believe science education in their countries is preparing children for the challenges of the future. In contrast, fewer than half (46 per ...

Struggling with literacy as an adult can have a devastating effect on multiple areas of an individual’s life, a parliamentary committee has heard. Managing household bills, helping their children do their homework and managing their bank accounts are just some ...