More than 50 teams representing countries throughout South-east Asia will descend on Homebush, in Sydney, this week for the FIRST Robotics Competition, a competition for high schoolers to test their STEM skills against international rivals. Although STEM skills are in ...

Primary schools should encourage young girls to participate in more physical activity. That's the message coming out of University of Canberra research that showed girls were almost 20 per cent less active than boys. The study included 550 students from ...

The Australian university system has been put on notice regarding the "opaque" ATAR admissions system. Education Minister Simon Birmingham used his keynote address at the Universities Australia Higher Education Conference to express his dissatisfaction with unmet demand and unclear processes. ...

Prospective teachers learning the trade ahead of embarking into the world of classrooms, whiteboards and playground duty can now register to sit the National Literacy and Numeracy Test. The test is conducted by the Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER) ...

  Boys are twice as likely as girls, and Indigenous children twice as likely as non-Indigenous children, to be developmentally vulnerable by the time they reach school age, the Australian Early Development Census stated. This census, released on Monday, looked at 300,000 new students ...

Federal Education Minister Simon Birmingham has placed four schools on notice until April 11 regarding their finances, after cutting funding for two schools in Sydney and Canberra for "inappropriately" using taxpayer money. Birmingham said the schools put on notice – in Brisbane, Melbourne, ...

Victoria's first 'vertical school' has passed the design stage. Melbourne-based architecture firm Hayball has released several concept images of its planned primary school at Fishermans Bend, a post-industrial area on the edge of the Melbourne CBD. Vertical, or high-rise, schools use office ...

"The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.” – CS Lewis Like plants need water to grow, we believe learning requires inquiry to flourish. We have a 58-centimetre-tall NAO humanoid robot named P!nk at Our ...

Two creative competitions to test school students' artistic acumen have launched this week. The first is the 2016 Dorothea Mackellar Poetry Awards and the second is short-film competition Screen It 2016. Both are open to all students in Australian primary and ...

When Christopher Hall was in primary school, a fellow student from his year failed to show up to class on Monday. The teacher simply said he wouldn’t be coming to class anymore. It turned out that over the weekend this young ...