In the countdown to final exams, an August survey of 1,000 young people found that  year 12 students in Australia are struggling to get a good night's sleep because of exam stress. Of the 500 16 to 25-year-olds who said ...

A new policy from the NSW Education Standards Authority (NESA), effective from November 1, aims to lessen administrative workloads for NSW teachers by scrapping principal signatures on accreditation renewal paperwork. Teachers are still required to complete 100 hours of professional ...

Victorian Premier Dan Andrews has opened a new front in the national campaign to attract and retain teachers. Amid ongoing teacher shortages, Victoria will offer fee-free education for high school teaching degrees from next year. This is similar to the ...

More than 90 per cent of Australian teachers saw their stress levels increase during the COVID-19 pandemic, driving educators away from the job.  A recent study carried out in collaboration between La Trobe University and Swinburne University of Technology revealed ...

A South Australian school is doubling down on efforts to reduce stress and anxiety among students. Working with Concordia College, Flinders University researchers last year pinpointed three wellbeing priorities for the whole school – psychological skills, body image education, and ...

Anxiety can make a child’s world seem smaller and teachers should try to avoid helping shrink it. That’s one of the many pieces of advice Dr Mandie Shean, from Edith Cowan University’s School of Education, gave on the Body of ...

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 ...

Final year school students are rushing towards an imaginary finishing line burdened by societal expectations about their future, leading to a state of anxiety that impairs academic performance and negatively affects decision-making. That’s the view of University of the Sunshine Coast ...

Human skin is a multi-tasker. Obviously it contains our internal organs, but it also wards off bacteria, moisture and the sun; regulates temperature; produces hormones; stores bodily substances; and indicates medical conditions. Now, it can potentially add another role to its arsenal: ...

Principals are working long hours, increasingly at risk of violence and being buried under excessive admin. That’s according to the latest Australian Principal Occupational Health, Safety and Wellbeing survey, which highlighted the stressors taking a toll on principals' wellbeing. The ...