Tasmania’s public school teachers are escalating industrial action, starting with work bans including refusing to administer NAPLAN tests to students, in response to the State Government’s continuing ...

Australia has recorded its highest global ranking on equality, and the number of people here who believe gender equality has gone far enough has also risen significantly since 2019, but major steps ...

More than one in six Victorian students (or 16.8 per cent) are now educated in an independent school, while in NSW 20 per cent of the state’s total are taught in the sector, up from 13.1 per cent in ...

A targeted review of the Australian F-2 mathematics curriculum is now underway to address poor numeracy standards amongst primary students - and it comes with a controversial new priority.

Fewer than half of young Australians believe democracy is always preferable to other forms of government, as trust in institutions wanes.

Researchers have called for a radical change in the way society understands suicide and mental illness in autistic people, who are three to five times more likely to die by suicide.

Australia’s first national inquiry into public school infrastructure has been launched by the Australian Education Union (AEU ...

Trendy tools and platforms that look great but lack a credible evidence base to show they actually improve learning are ...

It’s early in the new school year, and alongside learning new routines and establishing benchmarks for skills comes a new and unexpected challenge for teachers – war in the Middle East.

It’s often hard for students to connect their learning to real-life scenarios or see exactly where their interests could take ...

With nervous systems attuned with alerts, updates and ceaseless social media feeds, boredom is not an entirely familiar experience for Year 11 students who might never be compelled to sit in solitude ...