Schools Excursion, Incursion & Camp Guide

Schools relying on one-off wellbeing surveys may be overlooking students who need mental health support, new research suggests.

As the EU prepares to launch its own age-verification app for online platforms, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has called on social media companies to “step up and take ‌responsibility” over children’s online safety, ahead of a meeting with ‌executives from Meta, Snap , Google, TikTok and X.

Top-down decision making in schools has got a bad reputation, but doing away with a majority buy-in approach has allowed one Victorian school to seriously bolster its improvement agenda.

A new vision for school leadership has been unveiled by Melbourne Archdiocese Catholic Schools (MACS) which aims to strengthen parish communities and re-engage families that have lost connection with the Church.

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.

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.