Schools Excursion, Incursion & Camp Guide

Researchers have called for a radical change in the way society understands suicide and mental illness in autistic people, who are three to five times more likely to die by suicide.

Trendy tools and platforms that look great but lack a credible evidence base to show they actually improve learning are hampering inclusive education in Australian schools, an inclusion specialist has warned.

Female principals in public schools are regularly enduring misogynistic and sexist violence in their roles, only to be met with ‘suck it up princess’ attitudes from their employer, alarming new research has warned.

Armed with the clarity of hindsight tempered by a wry dose of humour, principal Lisa Holt admits she made a ‘significant rookie mistake’ when she threw her hat in the ring for the top job at Rosebud Secondary College.

From shielding a dead body on school grounds, to performing CPR on a colleague or carrying entire communities through devastating natural disasters, Australian principals are now working as first responders – and with huge personal cost, new research has found.

Launching sensitive conversations with students that raise concerns about child sexual abuse can alter lives – but they can also be easily tucked in the ‘too hard’ basket, deemed too awkward or problematic to initiate in schools.

As Salman Khan sees it, children most often struggle to progress at school, not because the world lacks incredible teachers, but because by design the mass education model underpinning our schooling system allows learning gaps to flourish.

​You could say Catherine Picioane’s little black address book is worth its weight in gold – Olympic gold, to be more precise.

The 2023 TIMSS (Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study) results have brought a combination of hope and concern for New Zealanders, this being the first time scores have increased in a decade, however a new achievement gap has emerged and another persists.