What’s more stressful, end-of-year exams or a bear attack? Common sense would suggest the latter, but one educational expert has said some students find exams so nerve-racking that the stress response triggered in a test setting is similar to that ...

No matter how rare child sexual abuse may be, an appropriate response is urgently needed when it does occur, one member of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse has stated. Commissioner Helen Milroy, a West Australian psychiatrist for children and adolescents, said: ...

A new survey commissioned by Schools Plus and the Commonwealth Bank has revealed many Australians will probably choose their career based on the subjects their favourite teachers taught. Almost half (49 per cent) said their favourite teacher inspired their career. Concurrent to ...

Netball, Australian rules, soccer, gardening, fitness, fruit consumption and simply chilling out. These were some of the activities students enjoyed at Orange Grove Public School in Leichhardt, in Sydney's inner west, to mark Kids Matter Day, part of Mental Health ...

A guiding document and a lasting tradition inform the experience of children throughout Australia’s only Quaker school. Once a week, all students and staff at The Friends’ School in Hobart experience silence during a replication of the traditional Quaker gathering, ...

Schools should routinely examine and re-examine where they are vulnerable to crime and dangerous incidents. “Identifying crime risks is a science and, to some extent, an art.” That’s the message from Leon Harris from Harris Crime Prevention Services, speaking at ...

Many files have gone digital for convenience; that makes proper management of them more important than ever. Records managements has become a hot-button issue for schools as more and more data about students is generated and accumulated, often due to ...

Network of law enforcement agencies and data firms spins online security program for educational institutions. A new project for internet safety in school communities has launched. ThinkUKnow is a free cyber-safety program that can deliver presentations to school staff, parents ...

Protecting students’ information has become an incredibly complex task; breaking data into categories and using common sense can help simplify things. Towards the end of her presentation at Education Review's recent 2016 ProtectEd conference in Sydney, Anna Johnston from Salinger ...

You don’t need fancy labs to teach science in school, an educator has argued, just go down to the supermarket and spend $10. Holly Kershaw, creative director of Fizzics Education – a provider of science workshops and shows for children ...