A guiding document and a lasting tradition inform the experience of children throughout Australia’s only Quaker school. Once a week, all students and staff at The Friends’ School in Hobart experience silence during a replication of the traditional Quaker gathering, ...

Schools should routinely examine and re-examine where they are vulnerable to crime and dangerous incidents. “Identifying crime risks is a science and, to some extent, an art.” That’s the message from Leon Harris from Harris Crime Prevention Services, speaking at ...

Many files have gone digital for convenience; that makes proper management of them more important than ever. Records managements has become a hot-button issue for schools as more and more data about students is generated and accumulated, often due to ...

Network of law enforcement agencies and data firms spins online security program for educational institutions. A new project for internet safety in school communities has launched. ThinkUKnow is a free cyber-safety program that can deliver presentations to school staff, parents ...

Protecting students’ information has become an incredibly complex task; breaking data into categories and using common sense can help simplify things. Towards the end of her presentation at Education Review's recent 2016 ProtectEd conference in Sydney, Anna Johnston from Salinger ...

Primary school principal sees the value of building and applying command skills in everything from classroom teaching and learning to succession planning. When Susanne Fisher speaks about staff at Humpty Doo Primary School, where she is principal, she describes their ...

It is the best of times and the worst of times for Working With Children Checks (WWCCs). South Australia is leading the other states and territories by example. A plan to revamp SA's WWCCs by establishing portable checks valid for ...

John Baker is the founder, president and chief executive of D2L (née Desire2Learn), the Canadian learning management system (LMS) provider responsible for the Brightspace brand of educational tools. This week, on the Gold Coast in Queensland, D2L is hosting a regional ...

An injection of early-career staff has helped principal Suzanne Fern build a solid foundation at St Aloysius primary. ‘We wonder’ is a phrase heard often around St Aloysius Catholic Primary school, Chisholm, where Suzanne Fern is foundation principal. The school ...

Scares at schools around the world have all been hoaxes so far, but they still wreak havoc on everyone in the community. It's the kind of chilling phone call that school administrators dread, and one that leaves them with little ...