The teaching of fractions is often identified as the point in primary school instruction when the 'wheels tend to fall off’.  While there could be many reasons for this, the overuse of one preferred resource (e.g. circular discs) at the ...

The former headmaster of one of Melbourne’s most prestigious private schools has pleaded guilty to fraud after it was discovered he didn’t have any teaching qualifications. Former Caulfield Grammar School headmaster Neil Lennie entered the pleas in the County Court of Victoria ...

A new article highlights how teachers believe they have to hide their emotions in the profession, which is correlating with both mental health problems and high rates of burnout in the sector. In a piece published in The Conversation, Curtin ...

Teenagers are dominating presentations to hospital for sunburn, sparking the Cancer Council’s SunSmart team to call for better education in high schools. New data shows presentations to Victorian hospital emergency departments for sunburn last summer were highest among teenagers. The ...

A South Australian school is doubling down on efforts to reduce stress and anxiety among students. Working with Concordia College, Flinders University researchers last year pinpointed three wellbeing priorities for the whole school – psychological skills, body image education, and ...

A Sydney private school prefect has urged his fellow students to change their attitudes towards women after a petition among female students revealed horrific allegations of sexual abuse. Year 12 Cranbrook student Asher Learmonth spoke before his fellow senior school ...

 EducationReview · 2020: Looking back and moving forward in education podcast - Brad Scanlon - Episode 2 Education, like many sectors in 2020, was severely disrupted in several states and territories, with lockdowns, border closures and remote learning models ...

Over time, we’ve understood that traditional classroom furniture and traditional classroom design simply no longer facilitates the most effective, engaging and productive learning environment for students. Studies have highlighted that the physical classroom environment has a direct relationship with the ...

Appropriately and logically, according to Coyle, Gallimore and Tharp began to question the education-based pedagogical resources, research and methodology they had been applying. In their attempt to try to discover what the problem was, they decided that “they would perform ...

Australian states and territories are moving to ban school banking programs – but are young kids more aware of marketing tactics than we might think? Recently, the ACT Legislative Assembly passed a motion to ban banking programs from schools, while ...