Today's school students likely don't have any living relatives who survived World War Two. If they're undertaking the International Baccalaureate (IB), however, they may do well to know its postwar origins. In 1948, Marie-Thérèse Maurette, a French educator, was stationed in ...

West Australian Liz Smith is a 21st century educator who very much has the future in mind – for both staff and students – when leading her school’s teaching and learning. She began her teaching career on the cusp of ...

It's a true rags to intellectual riches tale. Murat Dizdar, the son of Turkish immigrants, grew up in in a monolithic housing commission block in the inner-Sydney suburb of Glebe. He attended the elite selective public high school, Fort Street, which ...

What do our three most recent male Prime Ministers - Malcolm Turnbull, Tony Abbott and Kevin Rudd - have in common? Certainly not much of their politics.  They all did, however, at one point or another, attend single-sex schools: Sydney ...

Australia's education sector is under fire, having recently ranked 39 out of 41 countries from the European Union and OECD when it comes to a quality education for children. With education being Australia’s fourth-largest export earner, it is essential for ...

From 2015 to 2016, there was a 41 per cent increase in school incidents. This growing number of emergency situations has prompted a rethink of how educators respond to and communicate in a crisis. In the event of a natural ...

What do you want to be when you’re older? It’s a question nearly every teenager is asked, yet it’s an increasingly redundant line of enquiry. Not because today’s students don’t have aspirations – far from it – but because many ...

'Australia’s foremost cyber safety expert' Susan McLean has some news: the average age at which an Australian child first views pornography is now eight. Disturbing? Yes. Truthful? No. The statistic is "definitely not" supported by research, an academic expert in the ...

When #esafety17 tops Jarryd Hayne as most trending Twitter topic in Australia, you know it must be important. “I’ve never been to a conference like this before, but its such an important issue,” a cyber security analyst confirmed. “I’ve never ...

Catholic Education Western Australia (CEWA) is no longer daydreaming. The body once imagined implementing a cloud-based learning platform across its 163 schools, and now they're actually doing it. Seventy-eight thousand students - from Broome to Beagle Bay - will be signed up to ...