Genius Hour is becoming a trend in schools in Australia and globally. And one teacher has warned teachers shouldn’t tell the students they will assess it, and shouldn't mark it via a rubric. Otherwise, they'll just get slide show presentations. And if ...

A survey has found that while most parents intend to save money for their children’s education, only one-third follow through – and most believe the federal government should help. The Australian Scholarships Groups (ASG) surveyed 1000 parents. ASG found that even though 93 per cent ...

Australia’s schooling system is world-class. That’s what one principal has relayed from a gathering of teachers and principals at Harvard University. Clayton Reedie, principal of Dalmeny Public School – in Sydney’s south-west – has recently returned from a trip to ...

Sound, sight and touch are how Samsung Australia hopes to get children with disabilities involved in arts education. The electronics giant is hosting Samsung Dance Discovery at the Sydney Opera House. This brings kids with disabilities, and their parents, to the ...

While teaching the teachers of Nauru, associate professor Pep Serow has learnt one thing – Australian teachers could do far more with the resources they have. Serow, along with professor Neil Taylor, leads the University of New England’s Nauru Teacher Education Project, which ...

After high school, Nisha Pradhan wanted to be a hairdresser. Her male high school careers adviser thought that “was a great idea”. But when Pradhan, now a University of New South Wales fourth-year electrical engineering and commerce student, told her ...

In a packed program this week, Loren from Early Learning Review talks about how childcare rorting might be funding terrorism, James from Education Review and Campus Review discusses the #LetThemStay movement among academics and Dallas Bastian from Aged Care Insite ...

Nearly one-third of people with epilepsy have forms resistant to current medication, leading some people to turn to medical cannabis, driven by hope that it will work, based on anecdotal evidence. Researchers at the University of Sydney’s Lambert Initiative, in partnership ...

Who is more qualified to tackle climate change, politicians or high school students? The answer may depend on the elected official in question. But the Australian National University's Ian Chambers, a senior researcher at the Crawford School of Public Policy, ...

This week on a jam-packed Episode 11 of Talking Eds, the team from Early Learning Review, Education Review and Campus Review unpack the STEAMy new Sesame Street initiative, dissect the US college sports scholarship system and discuss solutions to this ...