Children born via caesarean section perform just as well at school as those who are vaginally birthed. Previously, research suggested C-section babies often had different microbes in their gut, which may influence their academic performance. But new research by academics in New ...

Working with remote and rural leaders has become an absolute joy for the Eduinfluencers team. The beauty and sometimes harshness of the locations is definitely part of it, but even more so we are spurred on by what we hear ...

An article written by ACER’s CEO Professor Geoff Masters has drawn attention to an issue relating to one of the common paradigms of school culture: the year-level school curriculum. As he states in his article, “the role of the curriculum ...

This year has been nothing short of extraordinary for all Australian school leaders, teams and school communities. It has required an extraordinary level of resilience and energy. It probably comes as no surprise that staff wellbeing is one of the ...

A new study of 4,202 young Australian women has found that more than a third of respondents have recently missed a whole day of school or university due to period paid, while roughly half said their period pain had affected ...

With educational institutions now heavily reliant on information technology to deliver services for students, keeping core systems and data stores secure has never been more important. The challenge has been amplified during the COVID-19 pandemic as delivery of many education ...

Schoolies may be officially cancelled this year because of coronavirus but police are taking no chances with hundreds of officers set to swarm the Gold Coast this weekend. Queensland’s Year 12 students officially finish on Friday and even though there ...

In a webinar marking 20 years of the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) testing in Australia, the editor of the Australian Journal of Education (AJE), Dr Petra Lietz, asked a pertinent question: Why does Australia keep participating in the ...

A Responsibility Theory® (RT) classroom uses optimal evidence-based teaching and learning strategies (see Purje, 2014, 2019). The teaching and learning experiences created ensure that the classroom environment is safe, secure, academically challenging, socially supportive and where all students are actively ...

A scholarship program for Indigenous students in NSW will get a cash injection worth $8 million in the upcoming state budget. The new funds for boarding school and tertiary studies scholarship programs run by the Australian Indigenous Education Foundation (AIEF) will be ...