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 ...

“Wellbeing, mental health, and psychological safety are the core pre-conditions of learning, performance, healthy functioning, and contributing.” This sentence is as true for adults as it is for children. The more we define these terms the more we build a national ...

This year has been nothing short of extraordinary for all Australian school leaders, teams and school communities. It has required an extraordinary level of resilience and energy. It probably comes as no surprise that staff wellbeing is one of the ...

More than two million Australian students will soon be returning to school (if they have one) for another academic year, and student emotional wellbeing is an issue that will be front and centre. A University of South Australia academic has ...

Your place of work might be affecting your gut health, causing issues like diarrhoea and irritable bowel syndrome. Now, Australian researchers want to explore those ties across all spectrums of work. Lead researcher Dr Phillip Tully, from the University of Adelaide, ...

Teachers are regularly dipping into their savings and some have none to dip into. That’s according to a survey of 1,000 Australians from AMP Bank, which also found over a third of people in the education industry feel uncomfortable about ...

An abundance of evidence links student wellbeing to positive learning outcomes. With young people spending most of their day-to-day lives in school, these sites are critical environments to implement and encourage wellbeing through programs and practices. But what, precisely, is ...

Etiquette is experiencing a resurgence among educators, and the reason why reveals an interesting trait of modern society. In our time-poor society, people increasingly choose to enter or not enter into relationships based on a quick assessment of values alignment, ...

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 ...

Amid growing concerns about the mental health of those in the teaching profession, a recent article in The Age underscored a looming crisis: a critical shortage of principals in Australian schools. With research consistently pointing to high levels of stress ...