RMIT is heralding its introduction of Australia’s first ‘fact-checking’ university subject. The course, which will be mandatory for first year BA (Journalism) students, will include the teaching of skills like detecting Photoshopped images; using Google Earth to verify the location ...

Conversations with parents of children with autism might help teachers uncover new activities that help boost student literacy, a new study has suggested. Led by Griffith University’s Autism CRC, the research held that more effective parent-teacher communication and greater flexibility ...

Thousands of people have protested Indian mining giant Adani’s plans to dig a new thermal coal mine in Queensland and have called on state and federal governments as well as the federal opposition to stop it going ahead. Protesters marched ...

The national curriculum needs to be decluttered and simplified to help Australian students excel, the education minister says. Dan Tehan has flagged a review of the curriculum, which could see revamped learning goals for Australian schoolchildren. “What I’m hearing from ...

Every FLOTUS in recent history has had a main cause. Nancy Reagan’s was ‘Just Say No’ to drugs. Barbara Bush’s was literacy. Michelle Obama’s was tackling childhood obesity. Currently, Melania Trump aims to stamp out cyberbullying. Many claim this is ironic considering ...

The reality of schools (for as many years as I have worked in education) is that teachers, Principals, and school staff more broadly run the gauntlet each term at frenetic pace, often collapsing physically and emotionally at the finish line. ...

Tony Abbott has recommended boosting pay and conditions for teachers in remote areas, including waiving university debts, to improve the quality of indigenous education. The former prime minister also suggests deducting fines imposed on parents for breaking truancy rules from ...

High school students from across Australia have staged a ‘sit-in’ inside the lobby of Parliament House after their requests to speak with the prime minister about climate change were ignored – earning them a three-month ban from the premises. “People ...

Another university application data dump, another Go8 domination. The University of Sydney has once again led first and total preliminary preferences among NSW and ACT domestic undergraduate university applicants. Also (per the previous year) UNSW, UTS, WSU, Macquarie and UON followed. USYD slightly ...

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