Computers are no longer a novelty in Australian classrooms, so much so that classrooms without technology are themselves fast becoming remarkable. In a growing number of schools, time in the computer room has been replaced by a laptop or tablet ...

Strathcona Baptist Girls Grammar is one of several schools taking part in an Australian-first program designed to ignite students’ passion for of science, technology, engineering, art and mathematics (STEAM) from an early age through play. The new program, run by ...

Australia should scrap the current census approach of NAPLAN and replace it with sample testing of students, the Council of Australian Governments (COAG) has been told. In its submission to COAG's review of NAPLAN, the Gonski Institute for Education at ...

New South Wales teachers are being swamped in paperwork relating to administration and accountability, leaving them overwhelmed and unable to effectively nurture relationships with students. The Understanding Work in School report, based on a study undertaken by the University of ...

A bus full of schoolchildren has been hijacked and set on fire by its own driver in an apparent protest against migrant drownings in the Mediterranean. All 51 children managed to escape unhurt before the bus was engulfed in flames ...

Playtime can be dismissed as a frivolous activity; something kids do in between the arduous slog of ‘legitimate’ learning. In an Australian-first, researchers at Monash University are launching a comprehensive project to see whether we should be taking fun more ...

ABC Chief Economics Correspondent Emma Alberici was doing some routine research via Twitter when she stumbled into a furore. Infamous for her supposed anti-Liberal bias, she provoked the opposite kind of ire by asking the internet for their “… stories about ...

Is a robot coming for your job? That’s the question a new tool asks. It calculates a person’s exposure to automation and other sources of change in a job and predicts future developments. “Experts predict 50 per cent of all ...

Do students who live near factory pollution have more trouble learning than those in cleaner neighbourhoods? Will they be less likely to attend class if they have to pass through a rough area on their way there? These are some of ...

Human skin is a multi-tasker. Obviously it contains our internal organs, but it also wards off bacteria, moisture and the sun; regulates temperature; produces hormones; stores bodily substances; and indicates medical conditions. Now, it can potentially add another role to its arsenal: ...