Ophthalmologists are calling on parents to ensure their children’s eyes are properly protected while they’re at school, and for schools to help out. The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Ophthalmologists has issued a statement saying that schools should ...

At school, Nick Tepper was a smart kid who behaved badly in class but he stayed in school because he wanted to go to university. Fast forward a few years and Tepper is a 24-year-old University of Queensland graduate who ...

The Australian private tutoring industry has been Ubered by a pair of software engineers operating out of Brisbane. For co-chief executives and founders Sam Robertson and Cameron Schmidt, the story of Scooter Tutor began in 2007. Schmidt initially came up ...

An education academic has argued that Adrian Piccoli “needed to go” from the NSW education portfolio, following newly minted premier Gladys Berejiklian’s cabinet reshuffle. Piccoli, a NSW Nationals MP, was replaced with Rob Stokes, who previously sat in the planning ...

Soon after the school year begins, it’s time for the annual swimming carnival. But, as a new study from Deakin University has shown, all the calories burnt off by the kids in the pool are often quickly replaced by a ...

The so-called autism epidemic is being driven by doctors diagnosing more children with less severe symptoms, researchers say, not by more children being born with the condition. A study published in Autism Research, titled Evidence of a reduction over time ...

Researchers have found that the youngest children in classrooms are twice as likely to be diagnosed with ADHD as their older peers, raising concerns that kids are being medicated with amphetamine-based drugs for age-related immaturity. The study found that among ...

Maths should be fun – that’s the message to teachers from one expert. Western Sydney University’s associate professor Catherine Attard, an expert in primary maths education, said fun is the best medicine for relieving maths boredom. “When children are actually ...

The Australian Bureau of Statistics estimated in 2014-15 that 158,000 Australians had type 1 diabetes. This is up from the same survey by the ABS in 2011-12, where 113,400 Australians were reported as having the condition. Furthermore, according to the ...

The parents of children born in 2017 may have to fork out $487,083 to put their child through K to 12 private schooling. This is the estimated national average bill for a private education by the latest iteration of the ...