A website launched by Primary Ethics, the provider of ethics lessons in New South Wales, may help more parents become aware of the availability of non-religious ethics instruction for their children. Recently, the NSW Government made informing parents of kindergarteners about ethics lessons ...

About 50 years from now, classrooms will become virtual, artificial intelligence will help run schools, and education won’t run on an “authoritarian model”. Yet teachers and school buildings will remain, a learning futurist and consultant has predicted. With a trove ...

Virtual reality will be helping some school students learn how to manage money, under a new pilot from the Commonwealth Bank of Australia. CBA’s Start Smart program – which has been running since 2007 – is undertaking a two-month trial to ...

University of Queensland researchers have linked ADHD and conduct disorder (CD) to long-term  disadvantage, as children with these conditions are more likely to drop out of high school and not enrol in tertiary education. A study published in the Journal of ...

In this week's episode of Talking Eds, the team behind Campus Review, Education Review and Early Learning Review look at why streaming services are becoming more prominent in preschool, dive deep into Edith Cowan VC Steve Chapman's coming out as a ...

A survey from multinational cyber-security firm ESET has found that almost three-quarters of its Australian and New Zealand clients think cyber-security should be taught in schools. Cyber-security is not taught in either countries’ school curriculums. However, ESET's survey of 1300 of its customers ...

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 ...