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Parents need support from early childhood educators to build capacity to claim for NDIS services.
Indigenous youth are over-representation in juvenile detention centres, and excluding them from education could make this worse.
Despite the need for both male and female teachers, male primary school teachers could be extinct by 2067.
Australia has the third most expensive education system in the OECD, but we might not be getting what we pay for.
Youth suicide has reached a ten year high, but suicide and self-harm are still taboo topics in schools.
In the US, differences in school results among poorer children depend more on environment than genes. In Australia, the story is different.
Despite good progress in recent years, there is still more to do, including improving access to early childhood education for three-year-olds.
Pressure on schools to make rapid improvements discourages deeper thinking about long-term solutions. Education can learn a lot from “slow” movements.
Staffing rural schools has been an issue in Australia for at least 113 years. We need a fresh approach to tackle this persistent problem.
Many parents are demanding less technology use in the classroom due to the amount of screen time children get at home. This story explores whether maths education and technology go hand in hand.
Universities can contribute to the goals through education, research, innovation and leadership, but they need to get started now.
The so-called ‘crisis’ has united both sides of politics, employers and trade unions, but wrongly conflates apprenticeships and traineeships to skew the picture.
The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse has demonstrated how catastrophically some teachers have failed their duties - a pledge is one way to turn that around.
Degree apprenticeships are being rolled out in the UK. They bridge the gap between technical skills, employment and higher education. Is there scope for something similar in Australia?
There are benefits to shared reading long after children can read to themselves, so how long should you read to your children?
Religion in schools has always been contentious and especially so in Australia, where there is a commitment to secular principles.
Religious education offered in Australian state schools has variations in the quality of delivery and limited provisions for the students who opt out.
Though more moderate than the 2014 version, the new higher education reform package represents groundhog day for the major political parties.
Parents need to use different approaches to shape behaviour depending on the child’s personality type.
The continuing decline in the numbers of male primary school teachers suggests more attention needs to be placed on retaining those already in the profession.
Writing is a fundamental outcome indicator of learning across subjects and grades. The latest NAPLAN results tell us we need to do more to empower children with these skills.
This year’s preliminary NAPLAN results show Australian students are flatlining after ten years of the controversial tests.
A new report reveals that Australian universities are not as safe as they should be, and it’s time they adopted strategies to fix the problem.
A case before the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal highlights the need for schools to accommodate articles of religious and cultural practice in their uniform policies.