1+ day, 14+ min ago  (521+ words) Girls" equality organisation Plan International Australia said the knock-on effects of fuel and fertiliser shortages due to the conflict in Iran, which is driving food insecurity and economic instability, are particularly severe for adolescent girls. As fuel prices surge so…...

1+ week, 3+ hour ago  (1214+ words) Nutritional intake by children in Australia is well short of where it needs to be, with 96 per cent failing to eat enough vegetables and more than 40 per cent of their daily energy intake often coming from unhealthy "discretionary" foods, but…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago  (871+ words) As the EU prepares to launch its own age-verification app for online platforms, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has called on social media companies to "step up and take "responsibility" over children's online safety, ahead of a meeting with "executives…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago  (953+ words) As populist misogyny expands worldwide, this school-based research in Australia helps to name what is happening in Australian schools, which can be linked to a bigger picture. As the Ipsos IWD report of 23, 000 people across 29 countries recently demonstrated, there is…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago  (915+ words) Student cohorts" performance in mathematics tests as teenagers is associated with how these groups fare later in life, new research suggests. International maths scores on tests used in Australia and New Zealand are associated with better adult outcomes including higher…...

3+ week, 3+ hour ago  (1544+ words) Many schools will acknowledge Autism Awareness Month, or increasingly, Autism Acceptance Month, this April. For school leaders, this often coincides with delivering professional learning on supporting neurodivergent learners. For some, this will be their first time facilitating this type of…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago  (1116+ words) Minister for Education Ben Carroll declared the evidence shows that the phone ban works in schools. The change will see non-government schools subject to the same phone ban as public schools, which was introduced in 2020, and will prohibit students from…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago  (874+ words) The report findings are organised around three themes: being safe, being seen and heard, and being able to participate on equal terms. Prepared by the Australian Human Rights Commission and released on the International Trans Day of Visibility (March 31), Equal…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago  (766+ words) Without a significant increase in students pursuing maths, we cannot grow the next generation of engineers," Engineers Australia chief engineer Katherine Richards says. The issue was highlighted at a Canberra breakfast roundtable convened by The Parliamentary Friends of Engineering (PFo…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago  (352+ words) A Los Angeles "jury has found Alphabet's Google and Meta liable for damages in a landmark social media addiction lawsuit that will influence thousands of "similar cases against the tech companies. The jury found Meta liable for $US 4. 2 million in…...