Childhood ADHD: to medicate, or not to medicate? This debate has been raging for decades, with staunch advocates on each side. Now, there’s more positive news for those in the anti-medication camp. A University of Queensland study of the effectiveness of ...

Realising that students with disability have far more potential than society thinks led Erin Canavan to write a paper, which was the winning entry in the Australian College of Educators (ACE) and Australian Scholarship Group Writing the Future Awards. Canavan, currently a final-year ...

The preliminary findings of a Deakin University study suggest that the key to fighting Islamophobia is teaching people about Islam. The early findings of the Muslims and Islamic Religiosity in the West research project also included the fact that 57 per cent ...

A suite of well-publicised maiden speeches was just delivered in federal Parliament. Now, our nation’s politicians will sit through another round – this time from high-schoolers. The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Tony Smith, has called on secondary school students ...

University course prerequisites are one remedy to the decline in Year 12 students taking harder maths subjects, a representative from the Australian Mathematical Sciences Institute has said. AMSI has released data showing that the number of Year 12 students taking on higher-level ...

An evaluation of 108 interventions aimed at keeping young people out of jail has found that only 13 target the multiple factors that lead to teens getting into trouble. The remainder target only individual risk factors, such as alcohol and ...

A University of Sydney child protection and family law expert claimed he's debunked “academically irresponsible” assertions about sexual identity and LGBTI students made by the Safe Schools Coalition. Professor Patrick Parkinson has published a non-peer reviewed paper criticising the Safe Schools Coalition, on the ...

In this week's episode of Talking Eds, the team behind Campus Review, Education Review and Early Learning Review dive deep into why intensive parenting is making mums and dads miserable, investigate the crowdsourcing phenomenon shaking up Big Pharma and revel in ...

The CSIRO has partnered with educational software company Stile, which was set up by Dr Alan Finkel before he became Chief Scientist of Australia, to improve science teaching in schools. Double Helix Lessons from CSIRO is a package of digital ...

For any teachers yet to lodge their tax returns, the media face of tax accountancy firm H&R Block and former Australian Taxation Office senior director Mark Chapman has offered his top tax tips. Chapman explained when teachers work from home ...