11+ hour, 13+ 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…...

3+ day, 11+ 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, 14+ 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…...

4+ day, 13+ 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…...

6+ day, 17+ hour ago   (586+ words) Across Australia, AI tools are landing in classrooms faster than schools can train teachers to use them. Research shows that about two-thirds (66%) of Australian lower secondary teachers now use AI in the classroom — well above the OECD average of 36% — yet…...

5+ day, 17+ hour ago   (834+ words) The more kids use screens, the more their results decline, Federal Education Minister Jason Clare has warned after Australian students recorded their worst ever scores in maths and reading. The results from the 2025 Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) assessment,…...

1+ week, 23+ hour ago   (1164+ words) It's 9pm on a Tuesday, and the school council meeting wrapped up over an hour ago. But you're still at your desk, squinting at scrawled notes and half-finished sentences, trying to work out whether that was Motion 4 or Motion 5 that got…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (909+ words) Jade Bassett is living proof that a teacher doesn’t have to be in the classroom for long to make a profound impact. Bassett, who once described herself as a “disengaged student”, was crowned the FACTS Education Rising Star of 2026 on…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (1039+ words) Three-quarters of educators rate helping students adapt to changing careers as important, but less than half feel confident their pathways deliver on it, new research reveals. The preliminary research by Instructure comes as hundreds of teachers and education stakeholders recently…...

2+ week, 8+ hour ago   (595+ words) Less than four years after ChatGPT first burst onto the scene, AI is rewriting the rules of the workplace faster than most predicted, leaving education leaders asking the question: how do we prepare young people for jobs that don’t yet…...