This story appeared in the March 2014 edition of Australian Teacher Magazine.
Australia’s GPs are increasingly prescribing antipsychotic drugs to children and adolescents for non-approved conditions, according to a new study.
More than 400 outstanding Victorian teachers have taken their skills to new levels this year through the state’s Teaching Excellence Program (TEP).
An increasing number of NSW teachers are suffering psychological injuries as a result of heavy workloads, a parliamentary committee has flagged.
The Federal Government is investing more than $14 million to support primary schools to teach Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander languages in classrooms across Australia.
In northeast Nigeria, 14 years of violence by the insurgency group Boko Haram has left a painful and lasting mark on the childhoods, safety and education of countless girls and women, with schools and family homes being regularly targeted by attac...
In the third of our four feature Q&A’s profiling winners from this year’s Commonwealth Bank Teaching Awards, we chat to Lauren Warschauer, an early career teacher at Byford Secondary College in WA, who’s drive is to support students in need to ove...
The latest PISA results have laid bare the scale of educational inequity within Australia’s school system, with 15-year olds from poorer families trailing, on average, around five years of schooling behind their more advantaged peers across all te...
Students with disability and additional needs in Victoria will have more of the support they deserve thanks to a funding boost by the State Government.
A long-running pay dispute between South Australian teachers and the State Government appears to be over after its latest offer won the approval of the union.
Australia’s long-term decline in academic performance looks to have stabilised, the latest PISA results reveal – but experts have warned it’s not all cause for celebration.