Get them to join a choir, orchestra or band! Write researchers Dr William James Baker, Anne-Marie Forbes and Dr Kim McLeod One of the most important qualities for a young person to develop is resilience. This involves their ability to overcome adversity. Resilience is perhaps more important now...
Meena Jha reports that Contract cheating – where commercial cheating services provide assignments for university students – has become a global problem. Australia is not immune. According to the latest data, record numbers of Australian students are paying someone else to do their assessments. This comes amid...
While her daughter’s trip to Peru did not faze Michelle Lawford, the prospect of having no contact with her well and truly did. At six o’clock in the morning we drove our 14-year-old daughter to the airport, where she would fly off for the adventure of...
From finding the right childcare, then organising the next phases of their schooling. It's a marathon for many. Can you find the right school for your child? We're revisiting 17 of your favourite articles to help parents on their challenging quest for the best school...
Real dirt, no fake grass and low traffic – say Anne-Marie Morrissey and Deborah Moore Choosing a childcare centre for your child can be a challenging process. To start with, choices may be limited if there are not many childcare centres in the area where you live...
Daniel X. Harris offers 7 questions to help you decide Parents and students are currently making big decisions about next year. Some will have just received or be about to receive offers of a selective school place for 2023. Other parents need to decide soon if...
From what to pack for school lunch, to how to cope with social media, school bullying, traveling with kids and tackling career goals - we're revisiting 25 of your favourite parenting articles. ...
Join Planet Ark to help change student perceptions about waste and develop lasting recycling habits with the Schools Recycle Right Challenge. The Schools Recycle Right Challenge, Monday, October 3 to Friday, November 11 2022, is an opportunity for students and teachers to learn crucial lessons at...
Former teacher Sarah Pietrzak finds herself a little tested by her son’s reaction to the impending literacy and numeracy assessments. “Please Mum, don’t make me do it. I’m going to fail, aren’t I?” My eldest child looked at me imploringly. And in that moment I understood....
Here are 4 ways to keep them studying, write Beryl Exley and Donna Pendergast Australia’s state and federal education ministers recently agreed to work on a plan to fix the country’s teacher shortage. The plan is due in December and one of five priority areas is “strengthening...
