New South Wales and Victoria are leading the way forward in Mathematics education, and boast some of the best teachers in the country. The Australian Mathematical Sciences Institute (AMSI) recently held its national Choose Maths awards, in recognition of Australia's ...

Our educational institutions are failing our young people, a survey has determined. Youth career coaching firm TwoPointZero asked 1,000 Australians aged 16 to 24 a range of questions about their career aspirations and realities. They found a gulf between the two. For instance, ...

Cody is just over three-and-a-half years old. He only started using recognisable words about a year ago, and still can’t string them together. Increasingly, he screams and cries when he doesn’t get his way, like when he is offered food ...

A recent evaluation report into the Teach for Australian (TFA) program has been met with criticism by lobby group Save Our Schools (SOS). SOS said in an education policy brief that the teacher training pathway was failing in its mission ...

Australians believe kids today should be learning life skills, such as problem solving and critical thinking. That’s the conclusion from a recent online education survey of 1,104 respondents throughout Australia. The survey asked Australians which skills were important from their ...

More than 2,000 schools will participate in outdoor classes today, after studies found that 85 per cent of children spend less than two hours outside each day. Australia’s first Outdoor Classroom Day will see more than 200,000 school children take ...

A leading Australian physical education academic says “physical and sport literacy” are essential to children’s long-term health and wellbeing and should be given equal importance as spelling and maths. As schools prepare to celebrate National Health and Physical Education Day ...

Australia is "dropping the ball" in teaching writing skills to primary students, a literacy expert has claimed. Dr Noella Mackenzie from CSU’s school of education said keyboarding skills, too, have been neglected by the education system, leaving children academically disadvantaged. ...

Have you forgotten a few digits in the process of trying to remember a new area code and mobile number? If so, the good news is that you’re normal. That’s because the part of the brain that does this job ...

More than 4,500 students aren't hopeful about the future, an annual poll has revealed. The fifth consecutive Gallup Student Poll also found that many these students - from a cohort of 9,000 across 28 Australian schools - are becoming less ...