A new Australian Institute of Family Studies (AIFS) report has shown when it comes to career goals, boys will be boys, and girls, girls. Using nationally representative data from the LSAC study, they looked at the career aspirations of 14 ...

On Friday 18 August 2017 an event held at the Sydney Opera House will be available online for all Australian high school students to participate in. Run as part of Science Week the event will allow students across Australia to ...

  A breakthrough in the treatment of childhood peanut allergy has provided hope of a possible cure. A small clinical trial conducted at the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute resulted in two-thirds of the children being treated with an experimental immunotherapy ...

‘It’s not fair’ is a refrain whined by children the world over. Though a study has found seven-year-olds may comprehend this concept more so than four-year-olds. Two groups of children, one aged four to five, the other aged seven to ...

National Science Week gives people a chance to think ahead. But the technological future isn’t just about emotive robots and self-driving cars; it also involves children. That’s why, if we want a smart machine programming a self-driving car, we need to ensure ...

At just seven years of age Daniel was expelled from his Victorian government school. It was the third he had attended since prep. Daniel has autism spectrum disorder, ADHD, anxiety and depression and his conditions make him more likely to ...

The federal government is spending $5.5 million to encourage parents to vaccinate their children. Health minister Greg Hunt says while more than 93 per cent of five-year-olds are fully vaccinated, immunisation rates in some parts of Australia remain low. The ...

In 2014, the phrase ‘like a girl’ went viral. Thanks to a savvy advertising campaign by Always: a feminine hygiene brand, these three words busted sexist stereotypes of girls’ athletic abilities. The campaign contained a video that showed a variety ...

Referencing neither sit-ups, nor cornflakes, Kristin Fontichiaro advised a group of Victorian librarians to teach students to get crunchy. She was, of course, alluding to data. In Melbourne for a School Library Association of Victoria conference, Fontichiaro, a clinical assistant professor at the University of ...

When approaching a child’s long-term illness, an alarming number of families are not adhering to treatment plans, Queensland researchers have said. And some are contributing to ongoing difficulties by being too over-protective. Associate professor Alina Morawska, from the University of ...