Researchers at Monash University have found a link between academic performance and eating disorders among female students. The Australian-first study found that high-achieving female students who later developed eating disorders felt strong, positive emotions when they did well in their ...

Schools value research more than they actually use it. In its raw form, after all, it can be notoriously abstruse. Not only are scholarly papers replete with hard-to-penetrate jargon, but often the research base is hard to access, and abuzz ...

Two separate incidents of anti-Semitic bullying within Victorian schools have sent deep tremors of disturbance through the education system and wider community. In one case, under threat of violence, a Year 7 student at Cheltenham Secondary College was made to ...

When immigrant families arrive in Australia, they will often find a whole new world of educational opportunity for their children. Yet with increased opportunities can come increased expectations.  At the same time, an unfamiliar educational system can be tricky to ...

It’s an alarming statistic that educator Stephanie Wescott now belongs to: leaving the teaching profession after just five years of practice. In a wide-ranging interview in The Age, which covered everything from teachers not “being trusted to do their work” ...

As we reach the end of the Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA) Book Week, which has run since 1946, an important yet often forgotten lesson is simply reading for pleasure. Education Review spoke to senior lecturer at Monash University, Dr ...

Violent encounters between parents, teachers and principals regularly hit the headlines, with politicians bemoaning a perceived lack of respect for teachers in society. Indeed, in a recent article for Monash Lens by educational and developmental psychologist Sally Kenney and Monash University’s Dr ...

Playtime can be dismissed as a frivolous activity; something kids do in between the arduous slog of ‘legitimate’ learning. In an Australian-first, researchers at Monash University are launching a comprehensive project to see whether we should be taking fun more ...

Every FLOTUS in recent history has had a main cause. Nancy Reagan’s was ‘Just Say No’ to drugs. Barbara Bush’s was literacy. Michelle Obama’s was tackling childhood obesity. Currently, Melania Trump aims to stamp out cyberbullying. Many claim this is ironic considering ...

As the Morandi Bridge collapse in Genoa demonstrated, ageing infrastructure is an alarming problem facing the developed world. We need engineers to maintain this infrastructure, largely built in the post-war period and coming to the end of their design lifespans. ...