Australian students are increasingly taking tests on computers. This includes major tests used to check national progress on literacy and numeracy. The idea is this prepares students “for the future”, because “technology is everywhere”. But as our two recent studies ...

Queensland schools are facing a wave of tuckshop closures due to rising living costs and a shortage of volunteers, with more than 40 per cent of tuckshops now struggling to make ends meet. More than 90 schools across the state no longer operate permanent ...

A program that teaches educators how to challenge students' emotional distress in the same way as a psychologist would is reaping benefits for schools, which have seen a reduction in student anxiety since undertaking the course. The Anxiety Project sets ...

The next Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) science test will involve more climate change-oriented questions that will examine how well students think about and understand debate about our heating world. The OECD, who administers the test, contracted Deakin University ...

A summit that brought together 70 high school students from 17 schools across Australia has opened up a conversation about belonging in school, and how racism and prejudice can affect learning and wellbeing. Supported by the federal Department of Education, ...

School excursions and incursions aren’t new, but they are wide-ranging and ever-changing. Learn from the experts about the challenges these learning experiences bring and what makes them worth the effort. “If you ask a lot of people as adults what ...

We have just received the long-awaited response from the Australian government to the disability royal commission’s final report. One of the most controversial aspects of the final report was a split between the commissioners on the issue of school segregation ...

Education academics have shared their analysis of the new NSW HSIE and Science and Technology syllabuses, stating the new content will be successfully integrated into schools with the right teacher development. The curriculum changes, which the that the Minns government ...

A campaign by an anti-co-education group of alumni to take over the Newington College ‘old boys’ executive, and prove its former students are mostly against the co-ed move, has failed. The Old Newingtonians’ Union (ONU) is divided into two warring old boys ...

A Gold Coast dad has started looking into research that suggests there is a correlation between attitudes around gender inequality and strict gender-based uniform policies in schools. Mark Morris pulled his sons out of the independent A.B. Paterson College earlier ...