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 ...

A love of teaching and a commitment to leadership and professional learning have helped Scone Grammar’s head of primary inspire others to great success. Graeme Feeney’s career as an educator has taken him from the Blue Mountains in NSW, across ...

One principal’s passion for creating caring, empathic citizens who value literacy and learning. A love of reading is what brings many an educator to the profession, but Helen Chatto has taken her career-long passion for literacy all the way to ...

Is there a trajectory of boredom in students’ school spaces? In Australia, there are approximately 6661 government schools, 1717 catholic schools and 1015 independent schools that provide outdoor spaces for students to engage with each day for learning and developmental ...

A principal recounts her mission to rebrand her school and change its fortunes. Principal Gill Berriman’s time at the helm of Bayview Secondary College, a freshly named high school on Hobart’s eastern shore, has been one of radical change rather ...