Climate change education is increasingly seen as an essential part of schooling. The main international test of 15-year-olds’ progress (which Australia participates in) has just announced the next round of testing will include environmental knowledge alongside English, maths and science ...

While the revised national curriculum allows Australian students to learn more about climate change, education experts say teachers need more support to deliver it effectively. According to Kim Beasy, a curriculum and pedagogy lecturer at the University of Tasmania, the ...

Eight students who took the federal environment minister to court over climate change have decided they won’t be challenging the federal government in the High Court. In May 2021, the Federal Court found in a landmark judgment the minister did ...

As COP 26 in the UK concentrates minds around the world on the impending climate crisis, the thoughts of educators turn to developing the climate citizens of tomorrow. Developing a generation of citizens capable of the type of thinking we ...

“Never put yourself at risk in order to reach an examination centre,” NSW Minister for Education Sarah Mitchell urged HSC students on Twitter.  The warning is repeated in an official statement from the Minister on the NSW Department of Education ...

Education Review took to the streets of Sydney on the day of the Climate Strike 4 Action to ask people what they thought of students taking time off to attend the strike. Most of those interviewed supported striking during school hours. ...

Commencing at the Domain in Sydney’s CBD, the school-day Climate Strike 4 Action protest attracted an estimated 80,000, while Melbourne drew an even larger crowd of 100,000. Indeed, protesters from over 100 cities and towns across Australia took part in ...

You would have to be profoundly deaf, blind or unobservant not to realise that something big was happening around Sydney’s CBD last Friday. Scores of students, still dutifully dressed in their school uniforms, started to snake their way through the ...

Australian school children consider climate change to be the biggest threat to their future safety and have little faith in the country’s leaders, according to a recent UNICEF report. The A Climate for Change: 2019 Young Ambassador Report also found ...

New South Wales Education Minister Rob Stokes has warned students and teachers will be punished if they follow through on a climate rally during class time, scheduled for 15 March. https://t.co/2yPT0QpRVu — Sky News Australia (@SkyNewsAust) February 18, 2019 Ok. ...