9 ways to help your brain and boost your memory during exam season

Tatsiana Volkova/Getty Images It’s exam season in Australia. Year 12 students are sitting final exams, while university and younger school students also face end-of-year assessments. No doubt, students will be

Why do kids want to talk about bums and poos all the time?

Catherine Falls Commercial / Getty Images If you spend time around little kids, you may notice one topic seems to be more interesting and hilarious than any other. Children of

Year 12 are about to start their final exams. Here’s how to keep calm and stay positive

Klaus Vedfelt/ Getty Images Thousands of Year 12 students across Australia are getting ready to sit their final exams. Students may be feeling a lot of things right now –

We tracked 72,000 NSW public school students over a decade and found 19% had been suspended or expelled

Moore Media/ Getty Images Suspending or expelling a student is the most serious disciplinary measure available to schools. Research tells us it can have a negative impact on a students’

‘I was 170th on their list’. What are the health impacts for families who can’t access daycare?

Thomas Barwick/ Getty Images Imagine living in a town where three or more families are competing for a single early learning place. This is the reality for many families in

Australian teachers are some of the highest users of AI in classrooms around the world – new survey

Klaus Vedfelt/ Getty Images Australian teachers are more likely to be using artificial intelligence than their counterparts around the world, according to a new international survey. The OECD’s latest Teaching

Our study followed Indigenous children for 15 years to understand what helps them thrive

Our new report follows the lives of around 1,700 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children in the largest study of its kind. We wanted to understand what helps them thrive

More and more Australian families are homeschooling. How can we make sure they do it well?

Maskot/Getty Images Across Australia, more families are choosing to homeschool. According to NSW figures released late last month, homeschooling registrations in the state more than doubled between 2019 and 2024,

We teach kids to look after their bodies – here’s how to do the same for a healthy mind

Jonas Mohamadi/ Pexels Young people today are growing up in an increasingly complex world — and arguably suffering as a result. Social media and smartphones provide constant distractions, while the

5 outside art projects to do in the school holidays – whatever the weather

Cottonbro Studio/Pexels School holidays can be stressful for families. Particularly when the enthusiasm of the first few days wears off and kids keep saying “I’m bored, I need the iPad”