A new report from Victoria University’s Mitchell Institute has argued that schools must focus more on students’ character, or in the paper's term, students' “capabilities”. Professor Bill Lucas – the Mitchell Institute’s international adviser and director of the Centre for ...

David Robertson is the executive director of Independent Schools Queensland. He is currently encouraging parents of children finishing primary school to explore the various high school options available to these students via open days and school tours. Independent schools come ...

Altering the brain to cure a child’s dyslexia. That’s what the Arrowsmith Program claims it can do, and it is claims like this that raise the eyebrows of experts around the world. The brainchild of Canadian entrepreneur and author, Barbara Arrowsmith ...

High density living, the use of technology and the end of summer may all be reasons children are now being robbed of valuable time outside. But this could be to the detriment of the next generation with more and more ...

Alongside Kermit, Oscar the Grouch and Elmo, this month, tiny fans of Sesame Street will meet Julia. Like her Muppet friends, she’s furry and has a cartoonish face. But four-year-old Julia differs on the inside: she has autism. The show ...

Rather than simply being a distraction, laptops help senior high school students achieve in science, new research shows. In his PhD thesis for the University of Sydney, Simon Crook – a former physics teacher with 15 years’ experience – demonstrated ...

A South Australian education expert has picked apart federal education minister Simon Birmingham’s call for “zero tolerance” in classroom bad behaviour, branding it as an argument based on ideology not evidence. Last week, Birmingham leapt on Programme for International Student ...

One in 33 children received child protection services in 2015–16 to shield them from abuse, new statistics from the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW)  have shown. During this time, 162,000 children accessed child protection services. This represented a ...

It’s time for episode 20 of Talking Eds! in this week’s bumper edition the team behind Campus Review, Education Review and Early Learning Review look at labeling’s adverse effect on children, whether mindfulness triggers past traumas and spar over Bond University’s new pathways ...

Australian school teachers spend a fifth of their holidays at work or working from home, a new survey has found. The survey of 1014 school teachers by First Point Research and Consulting – and commissioned by multinational education publisher Pearson ...