When it comes to financial literacy, Australia's 15-year-olds rank equal fifth, behind the Gradgrindian juvenile accountants of China, Belgium, Canada and Russia. Some countries not as good with dollars and cents as Aussie teens include the United States, Poland, Italy, Spain, ...

You’ve probably heard of private school scholarships for Indigenous students, but what about helping them adapt to their new environment before they reach the wrought iron gates? Liz and Rick Tudor have addressed this in Victoria by opening the Melbourne ...

Sixteen-year-old Mountain Creek State High School student Samara Welbourne is combining her love of books and Bali to lead a $20,000 project to build a library in Bungaya, a rural community on the island popular with Australian tourists. Welbourne started learning ...

We’re not soft enough. That is, when it comes to our skills. That’s the conclusion of a report by Deloitte Access Economics, commissioned by DeakinCo, a workforce professional development provider. The report, Soft Skills for Business Success, found that demand ...

Teenagers feeling misunderstood by adults and peers isn’t unique to any generation but in the era of social media it’s an unavoidable problem. Gone are the days where leaving school for the day put you out of reach of the ...

“I always say in jest to people, if you type NAPLAN in a Word document or on the computer, it autocorrects to NAPALM, which I think says it all.” Associate professor Michael Nagel, an educational psychologist at the University of ...

Principal Mandy Sanderson has chalked up four decades as a teacher and leader for a simple reason: she regards the profession as a constant learning curve. Mandy Sanderson is in her 40th year of working in schools, and when speaking ...

Exploring how and why schools should use social media For many schools, engaging in social media is as exciting as it is daunting. Like any new technology, there are risks that need to be managed. But developing an online identity ...

Australia’s schools and their students are on trial once more: annual NAPLAN testing will be held next week. This year, however, an education lecturer wishes something would change. Dr Kathy Bates of Western Sydney University scrutinised how NAPLAN writing papers may ...

The government gives a Gonski. Or, according to Labor, at least that’s what they want you to think. This week, Malcolm Turnbull unveiled his Quality Schools reforms, which includes $242.3 billion in recurrent funding over the next 10 years. Different to ...