How common is sexually abusive behaviour between children? How should daycare centres respond?

Gpointstudio/ Getty Images Parents have spoken about harrowing cases of their young children being abused by other children in daycare centres, as part of an ABC investigation into the New

7 ways to teach little kids about body safety before they can talk

Johner Images/ Getty Images Families with young children are yet again reeling after this week’s Four Corners investigation into abuse in the early childhood sector. The program identified almost 150

Are you finishing Year 12? Here’s how to avoid a post-school slump

Mart Production/ Pexels The period immediately after completing Year 12 can feel unexpectedly anticlimactic. You have been building up to the end of school for years, then there is the

Is Halloween too scary for kids?

Charles Parker/ Pexels It is easy to see Halloween as an inappropriate time for children. With its mixture of bloody costumes and scary themes, it can often feel like it

A UK hack shows Australia needs to be very careful about its CCTV trial for daycare centres

Stock Wizard/ Getty Images It has been a horror year for eary childhood education and care in Australia, amid ongoing reports and allegations of abuse in the sector. On Monday,

A rushed new maths curriculum doesn’t add up. The right answer is more time

Getty Images If the recent news of a new mathematics and statistics curriculum for years 0–10 felt familiar, that’s because it was. In term four last year, the Ministry of

Foreign spies are trying to steal Australian research. We should be doing more to stop them

Ross Tomei/ Getty Images When we think of spies, we may go to images of people in trench coats and dark glasses, trying to steal government papers. Or someone trying

There is little evidence AI chatbots are ‘bullying kids’ – but this doesn’t mean these tools are safe

Over the weekend, Education Minister Jason Clare sounded the alarm about “AI chatbots bullying kids”. As he told reporters in a press conference to launch a new anti-bullying review, AI

There are new plans to fix how universities will run. But will they work?

Australian universities enrol more than 1.4 million students per year and employ more than 130,000 staff. They receive substantial public funding – about A$22 billion each year. They have also

Our research shows how screening students for psychopathic and narcissistic traits could help prevent cyberbullying

Mirage C/ Getty Images The federal government has just released an expert review to try and prevent bullying in schools. One of the greatest areas of concern is cyberbullying, which