A national approach to food guidelines would make healthy food choices easier and reduce confusion for customers and food businesses, new research suggests.  An Australian first study, by Deakin University's Global Centre for Preventive Health and Nutrition (GLOBE), compared the ...

Parents in Victoria will no longer have to pay top dollar for branded school uniforms after Premier Jacinta Allan announced a ban on school logos on certain items. The major change to the student dress code policy is set to ...

South Australian students will form an advisory group to South Australian Education Minister Blair Boyer, who will regularly meet with them and listen to their ideas to improve the future of the state. Mr Boyer on Tuesday committed to meeting ...

The Grattan Institute's annual Orange Book, released on Monday, says government should establish an independent "quality-assurance" body for curriculum materials, and further push phonics screenings and evidence-based teaching in classrooms. In the past, the independent think tank has supported explicit ...

A new University of South Australia (UniSA) study found hands-on learning projects can improve confidence and creativity among disengaged high school students. Productivity Commission data shows national school attendance rates over the past year have decreased from 88.8 per cent ...

The private school union has said a "new chapter" has begun for a Canberra Christian school, which receives $10m of government funding a year but failed to pay staff or taxes. Brindabella Christian College, which charges parents between $10,575 and ...

The Queensland Teachers Union (QTU) is calling for the abolition of NAPLAN, citing the “psychological and physical impact” on students affected by ex-Tropical Cyclone Alfred. This year’s results would also be negatively affected, the union claimed. The QTU has long ...

Public schools across NSW have been put on notice to drastically boost students’ academic performance and attendance rates, with the Minns government today unveiling 16 ambitious new targets to arrest rapidly declining marks. Last year, the NAPLAN results showed thousands ...

In 1987, UK researchers lamented how schools were organised “around the assumption that the nuclear family is the norm”. Families who did not fit this model were “either ignored (tactfully) or categorised as abnormal”. Several generations have passed through schools ...

The 2025 school year is under way, and every young Australian is sharing the experience of renewingfriendships and the routines of school and learning. But, these days, students are far less likely to be sharing the same type of school, ...