Schools Excursion Incursion & Camp Guide 2024

Platforms that breach Australia's world-leading ban on children accessing social media could be fined up to $50 million under proposed new laws.

Practical placements have long been a conundrum for Australian education, with last year’s Strong Beginnings report revealing ‘a spectrum of experiences’ relayed by frustrated preservice teachers and a distinct lack of consistency at play across the country.

Professor Gail Gillon, a world-leading expert in children’s speech, language and reading development has been appointed Education Commissioner for the New Zealand National Commission for UNESCO.

Australian teachers’ behaviour management skills are being hampered by hazy professional standards and unhelpful ideas about ‘student voice’ spread by universities, an expert has said.

Lodged on the staffroom wall at Mount Hutton Public School are the words “every child matters every day”.

As Salman Khan sees it, children most often struggle to progress at school, not because the world lacks incredible teachers, but because by design the mass education model underpinning our schooling system allows learning gaps to flourish.

Big international names in structured literacy will touch down in New Zealand this month to share their knowledge with Kiwi educators.

Madeleine Collins isn’t just a science teacher, she’s a self-confessed science nerd, and her enchantment with the subject is contagious.

The stereotypes surrounding gender and STEM in New Zealand, and much of the Western world, can be potent.

The Centre for Brain Research was buzzing with excitement this month, when 173 Year 11 students descended on Waipapa Taumata Rau, University of Auckland to compete in the annual Brain Bee neuroscience challenge.