A partnership program has school kids doing real science with real scientists. Growing Tall Poppies aims to boost numbers of high school students studying science by connecting them with mentor scientists, who guide the students in hands-on experiments. For example, this ...

About two dozen Catholic educators have spent the last six months working on becoming more responsive leaders. Twenty-three Catholic education leaders from dioceses across Queensland and New South Wales are about to complete a half-year Executive Development for Educational Leaders program. ...

The physical classroom will become virtual, a US-based multinational tech vendor says. In its 2020 Technology Landscape report Citrix predicts technology will turn the traditional educational experience into more a personalised learning model. Essentially, Citrix says this means technology – such as the internet ...

Registered training organisations, including TAFEs and universities, should be ranked by performance to enable students and employers to better choose their course, a national training provider has said. AlertForce has expressed concern about recent reports that show only 1 in ...

A study of primary school students with hearing loss has shown children with double cochlear implants performed much better in exams than kids with only one. The University of Melbourne study measured academic performance of 44 profoundly deaf 8-year-olds across Australia ...

May the best robot win. An annual design competition has brought together young people and professionals to offer primary and secondary students an opportunity to create and develop robots. Young robot designers recently revealed their machines for the 2015 RoboCup ...

There are many scholarships available to help students out with their education including specific ones to support those from rural and regional communities. However there are many who are missing out because they simply don’t know about all the scholarship ...

For years parents have relied on newsletters to stay in contact with their child’s school, now teachers and parents are turning to a new mobile app to communicate. School Stream is a mobile app designed to deliver school information, instantly ...

High school students and aged-care residents will link up to learn about online safety. University of the Sunshine Coast researchers and campus-based organisation iDcare, which supports victims of identity crime, launched the program in an effort to reduce online identity ...

States should take full control over the way primary and secondary schools in Australia are run, funded and regulated, a new report has found. The report, published by the Melbourne School of Government, found that the current system of mixed ...