Education

Two students who went to the same university 30 years apart share their radically different experiences as lectures go online and face-to-face contact takes a back seat in the post-pandemic world.

Some students at Adelaide University say they are frustrated by ongoing communication and enrolment issues post-merger.

Nine childcare services that have failed to lift standards will only be named if the federal government decides to cut their taxpayer funding.

The newly merged Adelaide University has experienced an accreditation and compliance issue for human research projects, only receiving "conditional" accreditation as opposed to full approval from a federal body late last week with further documentation still required.

Tasmania's state opposition unveils a policy to extend kindergarten to five days a week in an effort to tackle the state's underperforming education system, but the government says Labor is "light on details".

Almost two years after a state government report revealed 35 per cent of all buildings within the Department for Education's portfolio were past their design life, many schools are still plagued with issues including mould, asbestos and rotting windows.

The rural-based social program in the shadow of Mt Tamborine has had remarkable success in rebuilding the lives of youth who have fallen through the cracks.

While growing up, people didn't make much sense to Summer, but chickens always did. Now, Summer is using what they learnt to help other children with autism understand human interactions.

Educators are not being given enough time during the week to manage the complex needs of students with disabilities, a NSW teacher and assistant principal says.

The age of AI is here and it's going to be infinitely useful, or so they tell us, unless you're the kind of person who, like me, finds computer-generated stories infinitely boring and an insult to humanity.

Reports of bullying in ACT public schools have risen sharply in four years. Parents and teachers say children are paying the price, and the system is not coping.

A family from Torquay, Victoria, was so impressed by a school's progressive approach that they relocated to Lismore, 1,500 kilometres away in New South Wales, to enrol their children.

Temporary teachers in Indonesia paid low wages criticise a government decision to direct one third of yearly education funding to the president's flagship free meals program.

After reports violence on school grounds almost doubled in recent years the Tasmanian government has developed a three-year action plan.

Teachers or school staff found to have breached bolstered NSW hate speech laws face tough sanctions, including the possibility of being fired.

Sita Walker, an English teacher from Brisbane, explains how she tackled her first work of fiction, set in a single hour at a state high school.

As WA kids headed back to the classroom after summer holidays, five of the state's public schools begin a trial of free full-time kindergarten.

Families across the country, from the coast to the outback, are gearing up to return to school after a long, hot summer.

Most of the learning done in schools these days is digital, but experts say handwriting still plays an important role in the development of thinking, learning, and fine motor skills. 

In an increasingly complex financial world of buy-now-pay-later schemes, scams, and social media marketing, there are renewed calls for financial literacy to become a mandatory part of the school curriculum.