This story appeared in the April 2014 edition of Australian Teacher Magazine.
Last month’s major cyber attack on Adelaide’s Reynella East College by foreign ransomware group The Interlock was another warning sign for Australia’s education sector to lift its cybersecurity game.
A new white paper penned by a group of science education experts has called for a revamp of Australia’s science curriculum and argued against a ‘one size fits all’ approach to teachers’ classroom pedagogy.
Delaying changes to strengthen Australia’s social media laws will give big tech companies time to “shred documents” and prepare their case, the communications minister claims.
The mainstream media are fuelling an ignorant and harmful narrative about teachers which is divorced from reality and eroding the profession in the public eye, a frustrated teacher has argued.
The ink has barely dried on the signing off of the Albanese Government's Social Cohesion Education Hub and concerns have been raised about its bias, and largely one-dimensional bringing together of resources that focus on dealing with discrimination.
A federal judge has rejected Meta Platforms’ bid to dismiss a lawsuit by 29 US state attorneys-general accusing it of designing Facebook and Instagram to addict children and knowingly concealing the harm from the public.
One-in-two young Australians are choosing career paths they believe are financially safer over roles they feel genuinely passionate about, new research reveals, as rising living costs reshape how Gen Z thinks about work and success.
NSW school principals have been left to use their own judgement when it comes to protecting the security and privacy of student information, with some using unapproved third-party digital products that the state’s education department are unaware ...
Australia’s school students are soon to have access to lessons combating anti-Semitism and discrimination as part of a broader plan to promote peace within communities and bring people together.
Major coal, oil and gas companies are reaching Australian children through schools, museums, science centres, sporting clubs, early learning programs, scholarships and career pathways, according to a landmark new report by climate communications c...
