4+ hour, 57+ min ago   (495+ words) NSW public schools will cap students’ screentime use at 15-minutes a day in a bid to address a “worrying trend” of declining student learning outcomes. The announcement, made by NSW Education Minister Prue Car on Sunday, will see the limits…...

11+ hour, 56+ min ago   (1224+ words) It started with two sheds, a handful of resources, and a dream. In 2019, at the Garma Festival in Arnhem Land, a serendipitous meeting between Barker College Principal Phillip Heath and revered Yolŋu elder Dr G Yunupiŋu set something magical in…...

6+ day, 8+ hour ago   (856+ words) In Australia’s schools, classroom disruption has become one of the most persistent challenges, eating into precious teaching time and leaving both teachers and students worse off. New research from the Centre for Independent Studies (CIS) has now put a number…...

19+ hour, 17+ min ago   (429+ words) New research shows delaying smartphones across a school's entire cohort reduces mental health problems, giving leaders evidence as new guidance on smartphones in the UK looms. The working paper, released by the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS), found that when…...

3+ day, 5+ hour ago   (534+ words) A data breach at Australian-founded learning platform Mathspace has exposed personal information belonging to more than 1 million students, parents and school staff across Australia and New Zealand, with the company confirming attackers exploited a critical software vulnerability that sat unpatched…...

3+ day, 8+ hour ago   (463+ words) As Australia's education policymakers debate the use of AI in the nation's classrooms, Norway is cracking down on its elementary students from using the technology, with the country's PM warning that it increases the risk that young children skip important…...

3+ day, 12+ hour ago   (1632+ words) The classrooms that run smoothest tend to have one thing in common: a teacher who's had a real say in how things are done. And as Australia's schools juggle an ever-growing list of complex, exhausting demands, it's the people on…...

3+ day, 12+ hour ago   (1632+ words) The classrooms that run smoothest tend to have one thing in common: a teacher who's had a real say in how things are done. And as Australia's schools juggle an ever-growing list of complex, exhausting demands, it's the people on…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (1145+ words) Some schools spend years chasing a single award. Haileybury picked up eight in one night. For Haileybury’s CEO and Principal, Derek Scott, who accepted the same award at the inaugural Australian Education Awards back in 2018, the experience might have felt…...

4+ day, 7+ hour ago   (517+ words) Social media platforms are deliberately amplifying misogynistic content to teenage boys, and the consequences are showing up in Australian classrooms. That is the central argument Chanel Contos, chief executive of Teach Us Consent, put to the National Press Club in…...