Children who learn more new words before entering preschool are more likely to positively engage with others during their early education, new research has shown.  Using data from 895 four-year-olds, Ohio State University researchers examined kid’s vocabulary skills at the ...

Teachers are demoralised because of the hours of “pointless busy work” they‘re expected to perform each week, an inquiry has heard. A team of academics, which has looked into the problem of teacher shortages in Australia, presented their research findings ...

The Australian school curriculum was recently reviewed in its entirety for the first time, with the Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA) releasing a new version 9.0 with the aim of getting back to basics, yet education peak bodies ...

Australia’s education ministers will draft a national plan by December to address chronic teacher shortages and rife dissatisfaction plaguing the teaching profession.  A roundtable meeting held last Friday saw key stakeholders, including unions, academics and principals, meet with the nation’s ...

Australia's federal and state education ministers, along with union leaders, principals and teachers, are due to meet today in Canberra to brainstorm ways to tackle nationwide teacher shortages. The roundtable marks the first time the nation's education leaders have met ...

School playgrounds are shrinking and some schools across Australia, particularly in metropolitan cities, have been left with less ‘play space’ per student than a prison cell, reports show. According to Associate Dean and Associate Professor of Education at Charles Sturt ...

A female South Australian relief teacher accused of grooming a teenage boy has had the case against her dropped. Ammy Singleton, 28, was charged with communicating to make a child amenable to sexual activity in Port Augusta last year. But ...

Teaching First Nations concepts can be quite challenging and lead to educators to giving up on covering the lessons or to rely solely on Indigenous teachers.  "Teachers can have a lot of ignorance and even though there's some interest in ...

A parliamentary hearing into a shortage of teachers in NSW went off the rails on Thursday after a government MP accused a union boss of using the coronavirus pandemic as an excuse to push for higher wages. The state parliament’s ...

NSW high school students sitting their HSC trial exams have been urged to plan ahead after major train services were suspended across the state.  Hundreds of students sitting biology, engineering studies and extension english trial exams may have been impacted ...