A Macquarie University study has discovered that children who are affected by injury are more likely to have worse educational outcomes than their peers and less likely to complete high school and tertiary study.  The study was led by Associate ...

Can infinitives be split?a                                  When do you use a pie graph?b                                             Can ‘Earth’ be preceded by ‘the’?c       What order should adjectives appear in?d    All these questions of writing style and presentation – as well as up-to-date, research-based ...

Australian students’ performance in writing has attracted a lot of attention this year, particularly in the middle years where NAPLAN results are regularly scrutinised. But, while no one disputes the importance of the middle years, it is the senior years ...

Australian researchers have mapped the hottest and coolest parts of outdoor school zones and found some reached up to 70 degrees Celsius. During summer last year, researchers collected more than 100,000 heat data points within a public school in western ...

Nearly a decade's worth of NAPLAN data and a sweeping review of how writing will be taught in NSW has suggested that Australian students’ writing skills are in a sad state of decline. In a recent Sydney Morning Herald story, ...

A recent study involving more than 4,000 participants found that both male and female students are likely to experience some form of sexual harassment in NSW high schools, and that male students are more likely to experience six of the ...

The Media Centre for Education Research Australia (MCERA) has created a weekly series that asks educational experts to address some of the most pertinent issues affecting education in the time of COVID-19. MCERA believes it’s critical that educators learn something ...

The vast majority of teachers are worried about the impact the coronavirus pandemic has had on student mental health and want to know how they can help. Macquarie University researchers surveyed 350 students, parents, carers, teachers, schools and health professionals ...

The recent parliamentary inquiry into the state of NSW's education system painted a grim picture and put forward over 60 recommendations – including making direct explicit instruction mandatory and using school inspectors to assess teachers in the classroom without prior notice. ...

Australian educators are finding themselves working with cutting-edge technology across the board, often getting up to speed with this technology just ahead of using it to teach their students. This puts pressure on educators to learn about complex topics quickly, ...