Despite being a fixture of school education for 17 years, NAPLAN’s purpose remains under the microscope, with many experts questioning whether it is too narrow a measure of student progress. A growing ...

Across Australia, schools are stepping up and introducing creative programs, rethinking learning spaces and finding smarter solutions to meet the evolving needs of students and communities. In ...

In March this year, more than 1.3 students sat a record 4.5 million online tests in 9,477 campuses and schools across Australia. Two key differences in this year’s assessment were that students in ...

When a Year 6 student tells their teacher, “I used to hate writing, now I LOVE it – it’s my favourite subject,” something is going right. In schools across Australia, a quiet shift is happening.

Prompt formulation is fast emerging as the defining skill of the AI era, and with this technology becoming more common in schools worldwide, the conversation has shifted from fear to fluency, says a ...

The data shows 9% of NSW students now attend high concentration disadvantaged schools – nearly double the proportion since 2017 – with NSW over-represented nationally among high-disadvantage schools.

The NAPLAN performance of Australian students remains broadly stable at a national level, new data from the Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA) shows. Two out of every ...

New NAPLAN results show that Australia’s education system is stalled in a state of high-spend stagnation — with student performance static, persistent gaps, and learning outcomes that fail to reflect ...

One-third of Year 9 students in Australia are now writing at a primary school level, according to new findings from the Australian Education Research Organisation (AERO) – an alarming indicator of ...

Education entrepreneur Michael Black is calling for a sweeping overhaul of Australia’s curriculum, warning that without early exposure to artificial intelligence (AI), students will be unprepared for ...

Gaps in university teaching While some universities now permit AI use in certain assessments, often requiring proper attribution, this does not teach students how AI tools function or how to navigate ...

St Raphael’s School in Parkside is leading a literacy renaissance – grounded in research, involving families and driven by collaboration. Its award-winning initiative, the Reading Revolution, is more ...