Students in parts of Victoria will return to flexible and remote learning when school starts back up. On the advice of the state’s chief health officer, students from Prep to Year 10 at government schools in metropolitan Melbourne and the ...

A new study involving nearly 1700 students and teachers has challenged the long-held idea that teachers underplay the seriousness and extent of bullying in their schools. Parents of children who have been bullied have “probably been tempted” or even asked ...

A newly released book by Dr Lesley-Ann Ey and Professor Elspeth McInnes of UniSA is pushing for a national, coordinated response to growing rates of children’s harmful sexual behaviours, or HSB. However, a key problem they’ve identified in addressing the ...

Several years ago I was presenting at a T&L workshop on teaching practical concepts to business students by using a media diary. I have been teaching marketing for many years at several universities, and I enjoy teaching practical subjects to ...

New research from Monash University has warned the government that subjects like music and the arts play a pivotal role in developing social inclusion and intercultural competence within students. Led by Dr Renee Crawford, Senior Lecturer in Monash University’s Faculty ...

A pithy quote sets the tone early in Michael Lawrence’s latest book about the state of education in Australia and why it’s so important: Testing 3,2,1: What Australian Education can Learn from Finland. Penned by English educationalist Sir Ken Robinson, ...

Australian teachers are needing to personally donate sanitary products to students as many young women face period poverty. That’s some of the feedback researchers got from interviews with staff from 12 Queensland schools. Dr Ruth Knight from Queensland University of ...

Scientists from around the world are pushing for recognition that it is possible COVID-19 can spread through airborne transmission. In an open letter, 239 experts from a range of science and engineering fields, including virology, aerosol physics and medicine, appealed ...

Three schools in the Illawarra region of NSW will now have their own academy of STEM excellence under the NSW Department of Education’s STEM Industry School Partnerships (SISP) Program. The Illawarra Academy will be based at three local high schools ...

A survey conducted at the zenith of COVID-19 reported that teachers were routinely working extra hours, with nearly half of the 1200 respondents working almost an extra day during the pandemic and others working in excess of 20 extra hours ...