Despite the young adolescent period's significant physical, intellectual and emotional foment, the children-cum-teens in this 8–14-year-old age group receive relatively little attention from policymakers and academics. That is one of the findings from The Australian Child Wellbeing Project (ACWP) report prepared ...

Educational research and policy has ignored students in their middle years and this neglect is increasing marginalisation, a new report has argued. The final report of the Australian Child Wellbeing Project (ACWP) – a collaboration between the Australian Council for ...

Education is big business. It’s Australia’s fourth-largest export earner and employs 8 per cent of the workforce. And the rise of the digital economy is pushing things along. Last year, Open Universities Australia celebrated 1 million enrolments, with 36 per ...

Many students and their parents have been primed to believe that completing the Higher School Certificate and obtaining the ATAR for university course entry will lead to success; however this is not always the case. Attrition rates at Australian universities ...

Safe Schools Coalition Australia said it was not fazed by the announcement that it would be the subject of a government investigation and welcomed it as a chance to “demonstrate the positive impact of this important program and provide the ...

Research has pinpointed Google and parents as more of a hindrance than a help to students’ learning – but not Wikipedia. A survey by online tutors YourTutor.com.au has revealed that in 1200 households with children aged 5 to 18, 84 per cent ...

Save Our Schools has spruiked figures that indicate growth in government funding for private schools has outpaced public schools. This is despite a recent Centre of Independent Students report to the contrary. One School does not Fit All revealed the per ...

Houston had no problems after Normanhurst Boys High School students reported mission accomplished on their task to work with NASA robots on the International Space Station. These boys were one of 10 teams sponsored by the University of Sydney to ...