Australian high schools could face a blanket mobile ban after the federal education minister announced he would consider a federal policy this year. On Friday, Federal Education Minister Jason Clare said mobile phones were a distraction for students and would ...

Listening to teachers, making time for their professional development, incentives and system changes will be needed to address workloads, educators' attrition rates and the lack of respect for the profession, experts said. Following the release of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation ...

Australia’s teachers are working longer hours with less pay and face high rates of truancy, bullying and intimidation among students, according to a major international report.  The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) recently published its policy outlook on ...

A new report by The Black Dog Institute found that almost half of Australian teachers (46.8%) are considering leaving the profession within the next 12 months, which is a huge increase from 14% in 2021. The same study of 4000 ...

An increasing number of public school teachers in NSW are leaving classrooms, with new data show showing resignations in having doubled across the state over the past two years. More than 1854 permanent teachers in NSW quit last year, according ...

Schools shouldn't be worried about teaching sex education as a new study showed parents want educators to cover more sex education topics at an earlier age. A new study from Curtin University surveyed more than 2,400 Australian parents nationwide from ...

A new approach to bullying focussing on building an "anti-bullying climate" in classrooms could reduce peer pressure at school, education experts have said. For the past decades, youth bullying rates have increased exponentially; in 2009, 27 per cent of year ...

Better partnerships between universities and schools will be needed to strengthen Initial Teacher Education (ITE) and ensure future teachers stay on the job long-term. According to Australian Catholic University's Dean of Education Professor Mary Ryan, one of the major issues ...

Teacher well-being is an important topic, as it not only affects teachers' personal lives but also has significant implications for their work with students. However, low teacher well-being and high teacher turnover are persistent issues in many schools. Pinpointing job ...

More teachers in Australia are joining social media platforms like TikTok to share their day-to-day lives in the classrooms and connect online with their students. This new phenomenon is called 'Teach Tok'. According to Curtin University Professor of the School ...