Compulsory schooling for 16-year-olds boosts attendance and reduces their risk of maltreatment and need for emergency healthcare, new research has found.
The National Curriculum is skewed towards ideological environmental instruction through the mandated cross-curriculum priority of sustainability, according to a new report, which has also been criticised for its political motives.
The Victorian Government has released new resources for schools to help students, teachers and parents navigate the impacts of social media and screentime.
With Australia’s social media ban now in full swing, a new survey from Monash University has found that almost four-out-of-five Australian adults support the Federal Government’s social media ban for children under 16.
A comprehensive new review of interventions for students in Grades 4-12 who struggle with reading challenges the misconception that support beyond the early years of school is ineffective.
The proportion of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander (First Nations) children who reported a long-term ear or hearing problem has more than halved over the past couple of decades.
There are calls today for the South Australian Government to commit to a basic minimum standard for all public education facilities.
Leaders from the Jewish and broader community have broken down after 15 people, including a child, were shot dead by father-and-son terrorists at Sydney’s Bondi Beach.
Reddit should not be considered social media, the app’s management argues, as it fights Australia’s world-leading ban for under 16s.
Austria’s lower house of parliament has passed a ban on Muslim headscarves in schools for girls under 14 despite uncertainty over whether the legislation will be ruled unconstitutional as a previous ban was five years ago.
