Smerdon commenced in 2010 as an inaugural QELi Board Director and went on to serve as its Chair from 2013 ...
Learning music plays a critical yet often overlooked role in enhancing the wellbeing of children and adolescents a new study has found, leading to calls for a stronger focus on music education in schools.
Teaching has been framed as a ‘sacrificial’ profession, one where ‘going above and beyond’ is simply an expectation of the job – and the ill-effects are playing out in schools across the country, a researcher has argued.
Red flags have been cast over worsening school attendance rates in regional Australia, as a landmark report warns around 15 per cent of young people outside our major cities have now disengaged from education or employment entirely.
Children from diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds are twice as likely to face developmental vulnerability in communication skills and general knowledge when starting school compared to their peers, new WA research has found.
Teachers sacked for refusing to get the COVID-19 vaccine and small business owners impacted by the mandate have been granted an appeal against the Queensland Government.
New South Wales’ most disadvantaged students are falling further behind as a result of a discredited system that continues to waste millions in funding, a major union claims new data reveals.
State and territory governments are being urged to double down on their commitments under the National Agreement on Closing the Gap this NAIDOC Week, as evidence confirms the positive impact of community-led early years programs for Aboriginal and...
School attendance rates in the bush have dropped in recent years, along with youth engagement in jobs, university and training, according to landmark research.
As we celebrate NAIDOC Week, for one small school in rural Victoria a cultural overhaul and constancy has delivered some remarkable results.
Our story begins in a library, where a frustrated librarian is pulling yet another fiction book from the shelves of her library in southern USA.
