It’s never too early for children to develop their spatial skills, vital if they want to one day design buildings, put up flat-pack furniture or cut a birthday cake. Here’s how you can help at home.
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New research shows the effect of bullying on disabled teenagers and suggests what schools can do to help.
While many military veterans do well on campus, not everyone feels welcome or their views matter. Here’s what universities can do better.
It’s time Australia came of age and followed England’s example by introducing a relevant and diverse sex and relationships education program in all schools.
Nagging or bribing a child to practise their musical instrument only makes the activity feel like a chore. Here’s how to support your child and bring back harmony to the whole family.
When students feel accepted and respected by their teachers and peers, they will actively engage in academic and non-academic activities.
Positive education pairs the traditional focus of schools on academic achievement with positive psychology interventions to support student wellbeing.
Although fewer Australian teens planned on going to university or TAFE than 15 years ago, figures were still higher than the OECD average.
Schools can’t equip students with all the skills they need once they start work, especially STEM and digital skills. Here’s one way they can better prepare their students for life after school.
Rigid gender roles and stereotypes are key drivers of violence against women. So let’s challenge these by starting young.
An alternative to costly teacher professional development courses is already improving teaching in our classrooms.
Online students tend to be older, which might explain why new data suggest they’re less likely to cheat. But even with these data, the evidence is mixed.
Activists have raised the issue of student sexual assault and harassment on campus for more than 30 years. It’s time students had a real say in how universities respond.
Compulsory sport and physical education at school will improve children’s memory, attention and ability to concentrate, not just boost fitness. The evidence is in.
Recruiting specialist teachers takes more than just encouraging them to study science and maths at university. Governments and wider society needs to come on board too.
Completion rates for PhD courses are very low. Here are some things students, supervisors and universities can do to help support these students through to completion.
Those four words have multiple layers of meaning. How young Aussies answered depended on multiple factors, such as the colour of their skin, family ties and where they live geographically.
Many students in Australia don’t have access to specialist teachers in science and maths, and the problem is only getting worse.
Encouraging and supporting failure can make your child more resilient, better able to cope and help them grow.
Public school teachers are working longer hours, which they believe will have a negative impact on their ability to teach students.
When it comes to teaching Indigenous students, Australia could learn much from New Zealand.
Children lying is rarely cause for concern and actually means your child is developmentally normal.
Learning languages early makes multilingualism “normal” in classrooms and playgrounds, and builds curiosity and even modest mastery.
Children’s access to quality childcare is, more than ever, dependent on whether the government views their parents as deserving or not.
Early shared reading is linked to a number of benefits for children, including better performance in NAPLAN, reading, writing, spelling, grammar and mathematics.