Schools Excursion Incursion & Camp Guide 2026

Police and youth advocates are querying whether new state laws that will see children as young as 10 fitted with ankle bracelets are workable.

Literacy and the explicit teaching of writing skills ought to be a focus of all PDHPE teachers’ practice and not left solely to English departments to handle, a leading educator has said.

A Melbourne university has received a $2.5 million gift to “use its foundations in evidence-based learning to help address Australia’s mathematics crisis”.

Female principals in public schools are regularly enduring misogynistic and sexist violence in their roles, only to be met with ‘suck it up princess’ attitudes from their employer, alarming new research has warned.

Armed with the clarity of hindsight tempered by a wry dose of humour, principal Lisa Holt admits she made a ‘significant rookie mistake’ when she threw her hat in the ring for the top job at Rosebud Secondary College.

From shielding a dead body on school grounds, to performing CPR on a colleague or carrying entire communities through devastating natural disasters, Australian principals are now working as first responders – and with huge personal cost, new research has found.

Launching sensitive conversations with students that raise concerns about child sexual abuse can alter lives – but they can also be easily tucked in the ‘too hard’ basket, deemed too awkward or problematic to initiate in schools.

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.

​You could say Catherine Picioane’s little black address book is worth its weight in gold – Olympic gold, to be more precise.

The 2023 TIMSS (Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study) results have brought a combination of hope and concern for New Zealanders, this being the first time scores have increased in a decade, however a new achievement gap has emerged and another persists.