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Teachers can be too strict A bit of noise and chaos should be tolerated in class if not encouraged to promote better concentration and, oddly, conduct says a US training program which has been vindicated by recent research.

More women and girls in maths thanks to AMSI Established as a collaboration of Australia’s university mathematics departments and agencies, Australian Mathematical Sciences Institute (AMSI) membership and global impact have grown.

Students put Scott Morrison under the pump It's become a tradition at Trinity Grammar and Scott Morrison recently became the fifth sitting Treasurer to answer some tough questions from the school’s economists since the first Q&A in 1983.

Teachers enlisted to train fussy eaters Fussy eaters are hard to win over and it takes a combined effort shared between parents, carers, grandparents and teachers to help the most fussy eaters to eat healthy, varied diets during their preschool and early school years. . 

Echuca school upgrades and special school The Vic Government will invest $16.7 million to build the final two stages of the Echuca Regeneration Project, upgrading Echuca Twin Rivers Primary School and creating a new Echuca P-12 Special School.

Migrant school cleaners among most vulnerable The Fair Work Ombudsman has forced Veracity Property Services Pty Ltd to improve compliance and back-pay two Sri Lankan workers who provided cleaning services to a southeast Melbourne government school.

Robots, Martians and scientists to invade classrooms Dancing robots, tales from the high seas and news from outer space will all make their way into more than 350 Australian classrooms today as part of the CSIRO-led STEM in Schools event.

Sydney Science Festival at venues all over town Sydney Science Festival kicks off its 2018 program with 13 days jam-packed with over 200 events across 90 venues in store. The Festival will be coming venues around Sydney from Tuesday 7  –Sunday 19 August.

$1 million for primary kids’ digital literacy research An Australian Research Council (ARC) Future Fellowship awarded to Australian Catholic University’s (ACU) Prof Kathy Mills to explore how harnessing all the senses can enhance the digital literacy of primary students.

Global education leaders to meet in Melbourne A gathering of education experts from around the world, The Asia Society Global Cities Education Network symposium will be coming to Victoria in 2019 owing to the state's performance in international benchmarks.

Unqualified teachers sent to classrooms, costing millions We need STEAM teachers and the High Achieving Teachers Program’ (HATP) is supposed to help with that, however the Australian Education Union has its concerns.

Games & gambling not kids stuff Gambling is insidious, it seems to pervade sport and a lot of social activity, it has also crept into the video games that so fascinate our kids and there are calls for something to be done.