Australian researchers believe uniform delivery of lunchtime food at school could be a recipe for better childhood nutrition and learning. Nutrition and dietetics researcher at Flinders University Professor Rebecca Golley said the model would involve all children in school being ...

The Oxford Australian 2020 Children’s Word of the Year (CWOTY) is ‘virus’, shining a light on how deeply the COVID-19 pandemic, remote learning and school closures have impacted students this year. To come to this decision, children’s language experts analysed ...

As Year 12 students across Australia prepare for the culmination of their schooling, a proportion of over-achievers will be setting their expectations high and will likely be fearful about not reaching their perfectionist heights. The perfectionist syndrome led clinical PhD ...

Bullying hurts children more if it comes from a friend, and they're less likely to report it, says a new study. Flinders University researchers found that victims identify the pain of relational bullying from best friends as being especially harmful ...

A Flinders University researcher has highlighted that developing students’ ability to self-regulate their learning will be one of the most critical skills to develop during the COVID pandemic, with the growing shift to online learning. Professor Stella Vosniadou has concluded ...

Feelings. It's probably not a word that many of us would associate with mathematics. But according to Dr Carol Aldous from Flinders University, feelings and intuition play a critical role in solving novel maths problems – problems that require students ...

Hi and welcome to another Education Review weekly roundup of the top news stories we covered this week. I’m Wade Zaglas, the education editor. All stories can be found on our site, educationreview.com.au. You can either read this summary or ...

It’s essential to test children for speech and language disorders, but applying monolingual tests to multilingual children only leads to poor diagnoses and damaged learning outcomes, experts say. The comments were made by linguistics scholar Dr Madalena Cruz-Ferreira, who this ...

  Collaboration would allow practical training sooner for education students. By Antonia Maiolo. The University of Adelaide and Flinders University are exploring a partnership that could result in the joint offer of a double degree in education in South Australia. The ...