This is your opportunity to step up, speak out and make your voice heard. Normally, Queensland Family and Child Commission come out and visit your school and youth groups every two years to hear from you directly, but this year they haven’t been able to. In times...
A new podcast series by child and adolescent health experts from the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute will explore how to support children, adolescents and families during the COVID-19 pandemic. The first three episodes will discuss wellbeing concerns and a range of solutions across a range of...
Australian Book Industry Award Winners 2020 have been announced yesterday with a Virtual Awards event. This is the first time that an illustrated Children's Book has won the Book of the Year Award. ABIA book of the year: Bluey: The Beach, Ludo Studio, BBC Studios and Penguin...
What exactly do we mean when we talk about success at school. Are outdated ideas about ‘success’ failing our kids? What exactly do we mean when we talk about success at school. Can a school be doing its job, even if its students don’t excel...
There is a major issue not addressed before the birth of a child, writes Barry Cail. When my wife and I went to our first prenatal class, the midwife discussed everything from changing nappies, lack of sleep and the partner’s support role, to not having enough...
The spread of COVID-19 has had dramatic impacts on our schooling system, including the cancellation of the 2020 NAPLAN (National Assessment Program – Literacy and Numeracy) test. The decision was made to allow for school leaders, teachers and staff to transition to...
When a mother gives birth to twins, the offspring are not always identical or even the same gender write Joseph L Tomkins, Rebecca Sear and Wade Hazel Known as fraternal twins, they represent a longstanding evolutionary puzzle. Identical twins arise from a single fertilised egg that accidentally...
Teachers say most students have lost the ability to focus, are less empathetic and spend less time on physical activity, report Pasi Sahlberg and Adrian Piccoli, These are some of the results from our Growing Up Digital Australia study, in which we surveyed almost 2,000 teachers...
The challenges we are all facing as a result of the coronavirus pandemic have the potential to cause serious and sometimes long-lasting problems for individuals and societies, writes Professor David ForbesBut can they also spur us to reconsider who we are, what we value and...
You might be doing it wrong! write Maximilian de Courten, Barbora de Courten, and Vasso Apostolopoulos Many people in the community are wearing face masks and gloves in an attempt to protect themselves against the coronavirus. They might put on these items to go to the...
