Wearable devices in the classroom present serious privacy and data security risks for schools, a legal expert has warned, yet inconsistent rules about their use are clouding the scene for school leaders across the country.
Australia’s school system is actively widening learning gaps between advantaged and disadvantaged children, damning new analysis drawing on 17 years’ worth of NAPLAN data has revealed.
Rising Indigenous employment is being driven by women who are better qualified than men and more likely to attend school and avoid the justice system, new research has revealed.
The stereotype of the gifted child as a confident, straight-A student sitting at the front of the class does not always match the reality in Australian classrooms, and as many experienced educators know, the consequences of under-identification of...
An in-principle agreement which will see Victoria’s public school teachers pocket pay rises of up to 32.4 per cent has been struck between the Allan Government and the Australian Education Union – but some argue the proposal fails to deliver bette...
For Matilda Pearce, a school day might involve online classes in an outback farmhouse, doing maths in a paddock, practising spelling words in the car or reading a book on the long trip to town.
Walk into any school staffroom in Australia and ask what has changed over the past decade and the answer is strikingly consistent.
In the wake of the Canvas data breach, Australian teachers and school leaders should now brace for an imminent wave of highly targeted phishing scams aimed at their communities, a cyber safety expert has warned.
Before one small regional Victorian school overhauled its approach to teaching English, there was a lot of ‘busy work’ underway in lessons – but not necessarily much actual learning happening.
Described by the Albanese Government as ‘ambitious’ yet grounded in ‘responsible’ economic management, the 2026/27 Budget cracks down on the tax treatment of housing and trusts, and delivers new tax sweeteners to workers – but what’s in it for sch...
