Many of us have fond memories of pouring over an Encyclopedia Britannica in high school, knowing it was both an easily digestible and trusted source of knowledge. Not much has changed in that sense, and 250 years later Britannica is still ...

The eSafety Commissioner’s national campaign, Online Safety Start the Chat, is asking parents, teachers and students across the country to start those important conversations about online safety. The campaign is a response to disturbing research findings that up to 95 ...

Teachers are regularly dipping into their savings and some have none to dip into. That’s according to a survey of 1,000 Australians from AMP Bank, which also found over a third of people in the education industry feel uncomfortable about ...

An abundance of evidence links student wellbeing to positive learning outcomes. With young people spending most of their day-to-day lives in school, these sites are critical environments to implement and encourage wellbeing through programs and practices. But what, precisely, is ...

Early childhood education could double the return on its investment, a landmark study shows. The study analysed the benefits to Australia of early learning in the year before school, finding that families could see a collective return of $1.4 billion ...

The revelation that Victoria’s Education Department has a high-tech, round-the-clock crisis centre is one window into the challenges facing school leaders today. The fact that over a fifth of educators have been bullied by parents is another. Delivering quality education ...

Australian teachers aren’t getting access to the professional development they need to tackle advanced ICT, teaching in multicultural settings and educating students with special needs. That was one of the takeaways of the Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development’s (OECD) ...

Interactive panels – or interactive whiteboards as they are often called – have come a long way since they first entered classrooms way back in the 1990s. These “touchpads turned on their side and stuck on the wall” have revolutionised ...

There are a myriad of reasons why girls in Australia aged 15–17 may choose to quit sport. They may find that the values of sport participation are not meaningful for them. They may lack the necessary knowledge and skills to ...

Hi, Wade Zaglas here, education editor for Education Review. Welcome to our fourth weekly roundup of the key issues, events and debates of the week. You can either read this summary or listen to the podcast below. This week was ...