There is no doubt the past few years have contributed to a rise in anxiety across the population, particularly affecting younger people aged 16-24. But even if it does not qualify as a clinical condition, many students experience anxiety in ...

Improving teachers' workload, student well-being and equity are key elements to boost student outcomes, a government report found, yet unions are urging for the inclusion of school funding in the review. An interim Productivity Commission report on the National School ...

As part of two billion-dollar education reform packages earlier this year, the NSW and Victorian Governments recently announced the introduction of a pre-kindergarten year. It’s a bold move designed to have multiple complementary outcomes; deliver cheaper childcare, help more women re-enter ...

A teacher who was found to have engaged in “grooming-like behaviour” with an ex-student in Perth has now been sacked from his job in Brisbane. Music teacher Aurelio Gallo lost his teaching licence in WA for at least three-and-a-half years last month after he ...

South Australian state primary schools will see the addition of specialist autism teachers as part of the State Government's plan to support the inclusion of students on the spectrum.  The program is set to roll out from Term One next ...

An old school friend of King Charles from his time at a remote Victorian grammar school says “there’s no doubt” the monarch is fit to rule. Chas Armytage attended Geelong Grammar’s country campus Timbertop in the Victorian alps where, in 1966, the then-17-year-old Prince ...

The covid-19 pandemic has underlined a mathematical skills gap as many Australians were unable to correctly assess the health data presented in the media and were drawn to fake news.  Many of the data and graphs used to explain the ...

Acer and Microsoft have been at the forefront of developing technology that adapts to the ever-changing needs of the education landscape. Aside from improving student engagement and learning outcomes, technological advancements now allow schools to better cater to the needs ...

Research on motivation has long shown that students’ perceived academic competence is critical for supporting their positive academic outcomes. Perceived academic competence refers to students’ confidence about their ability to do well in schoolwork. More recently, researchers have started to ...

A former parent of a student at one of Sydney’s most elite private schools says she is “not surprised” by the racist, homophobic and misogynistic group chat that was run by some of its students. Last week, screenshots from a ...