Dr Kevin Larkin can no longer claim to be an ordinary teacher. The Senior Lecturer (Mathematics Education) at Griffith University has just scooped the title of 2018 Australian University Teacher of the Year. As one of the 13 winners at the Australian ...

Principals are working long hours, increasingly at risk of violence and being buried under excessive admin. That’s according to the latest Australian Principal Occupational Health, Safety and Wellbeing survey, which highlighted the stressors taking a toll on principals' wellbeing. The ...

New South Wales Education Minister Rob Stokes has warned students and teachers will be punished if they follow through on a climate rally during class time, scheduled for 15 March. https://t.co/2yPT0QpRVu — Sky News Australia (@SkyNewsAust) February 18, 2019 Ok. ...

Should you tap your way to feeling less stressed? Or is plain old 'switching off' the better option? That’s what Bond University researchers hope to confirm as part of a new study into psychological interventions for stress. Research lead Associate ...

How many of you still remember that teacher of your college days who had more to offer than just nondescript, soporific lectures – that teacher who held your attention throughout class with humour and levity? I’m sure many of you ...

Would you steer a Year 6, 7 or 8 student away from 'soft' subjects like art and music to harder ones like maths and English? Intuitively, it seems that fluffier-seeming subjects allow for fun and creativity alone. A new study, however, shows ...

One day after a 'sophisticated state actor' hacked Australian government servers, it was announced that children as young as eleven will be trained to potentially thwart such attacks in the future. On Tuesday, the Schools Cyber Security Challenges program was launched at St Andrew's ...

All in all, Australians are pretty happy with the state of classroom education. Despite a hefty amount of negative media attention, a new nation-wide survey of 2052 adults has revealed that Australians are largely positive about the level of education ...

A national academy to provide specialist leadership training for school principals will be set up if Labor wins the next federal election. A recent review found high performing school leaders add between two and seven months' worth of growth in ...

When five pm hits, Jessica flicks on the TV. She knows Lula, her two-and-a-half-year-old, will pass the witching hour in relative peace watching ABC Kids. Screen time rules proponents may caution her: no more than that per day, until Lulu is ...