Mission Australia is calling for a comprehensive strategy for helping young people with mental health issues, following the findings of it latest youth survey. Mission Australia’s Youth Survey 2016 found that 20 per cent of the 22,000 people aged 15 to ...

Snapchat, used by teens in schools all over Australia, has joined the Children's eSafety Commissioner’s fight against cyber-bullying. Andree Wright, acting Children's eSafety Commissioner, said Snapchat would now work with the office to remove cyber-bullying material posted on the app. The ...

Less than 7 per cent of schools in Australia are “fully able to give kids the best education in maths” at the advanced level, the Australian Mathematical Sciences Institute has estimated. AMSI director Geoff Prince made these comments to Education ...

Waverley College, a Sydney independent school, has spent $23 million on a new building aimed at helping its students learn a trade and other vocational skills. In this centre is a BOSE speaker system, multimedia screens, retractable lighting bar and ...

While the federal government has endorsed a phonics check for Year 1 students, one researcher has warned that the check should not overextend its reach. Dr Jennifer Buckingham, an education researcher from the Centre of Independent Studies, recently completed a report ...

Future teachers could be required to have some skills similar to data scientists, as they’ll use such numbers to personalise learning, a Microsoft executive has said. Ray Fleming, Microsoft Australia’s education industry development manager, said there is potential for schools ...

Taj Pabari is a 17-year-old high school student attending Brisbane’s John Paul College who has absolutely no aspiration to study at university. But he’s also chief executive of his own tech start-up, Fiftysix Creations, and spends his free time with ...

The Victorian Government has unveiled a policy that would require aspiring teachers to have an ATAR of at least 70 before enrolling in teaching degrees, from 2019 onwards. The reforms would also make it compulsory for Victorian universities to base ...

Technology products are permeating today’s classrooms, and a group of students got to meet one of the brains behind it all. Two classes of students from Sydney Secondary College Leichhardt Campus met with Microsoft chief executive Satya Nadella to showcase ...

When a learning program kicks off with a breakdancing performance and a balloon dinosaur, it’s likely to be a little different. That’s what marked the opening of the Sydney Opera House’s 2017 Kids, Families and Creative Learning program earlier this ...