A South Australian education expert has picked apart federal education minister Simon Birmingham’s call for “zero tolerance” in classroom bad behaviour, branding it as an argument based on ideology not evidence. Last week, Birmingham leapt on Programme for International Student ...

Australian school teachers spend a fifth of their holidays at work or working from home, a new survey has found. The survey of 1014 school teachers by First Point Research and Consulting – and commissioned by multinational education publisher Pearson ...

Classroom mindfulness can cause anxiety and stress in students who’ve experienced trauma, an expert has warned. Flinders University education academic Dr Leigh Burrows has advised that teachers who want to use the practice should learn their student’s backgrounds and not ...

New research shows that today’s supposedly tech-addicted children can still be bookworms. This, however, is more likely if they’re given a hard copy. The influence of access to eReaders, computers and mobile phones on children’s book reading frequency, published in ...

Unclear and indirect jargon could be hurting the chances of getting troubled teens with language disorders back into school, a University of Melbourne speech pathologist has warned. Nathaniel Swain said that language disorders, namely conditions that inhibit the deciphering of ...

A fifth of Australian Year 4 students report being bullied at least once a week, and this contributes substantially to Australia’s declining performance in international school league tables. The Australia-specific results for the OECD Trends in International Mathematics and Science ...

A private tutoring industry exists for the purpose of helping individual students to ace NAPLAN, despite the test results being used to monitor schools' overall academic performance, the University of Melbourne’s professor Stephen Dinham has revealed. Dinham, an education expert ...

With research confirming that media messages mould children’s gender identity, an expert has argued that primary school teachers could play a critical role in reshaping these perceptions. University of Technology Sydney’s Dr Jane Hunter said that “very young girls are ...

Keeping an assembly of primary school-aged children quiet for 30 minutes can be a struggle, as most teachers would know. But Sydney’s Trinity Grammar School managed to pull it off for a full day with 800 of its students aged ...

Construction has begun on Melbourne’s first high-rise school, continuing an Australian trend that began in Sydney of schools gracing city skylines. Richmond High School on Highett Street, which will educate 650 students, is set to be operational by 2018. The ...