26 May, 2026
Filed under: Education

27% of Australian students now have an adjustment for disability at school. Why are we seeing this growth?

New data shows more than one quarter of Australian students receive a disability adjustment. Professor Linda Graham and Dr Callula Killingly from the QUT Centre for Inclusive Education unpack the findings.

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15 December, 2025
Filed under: Education

New research shows it’s never too late to help students learn to read – even in high school

A comprehensive review of interventions for students in Grades 4–12 who struggle with reading challenges the misconception that support beyond the early years of school is ineffective.

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21 October, 2025
Filed under: Education

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

New QUT research looks at the scale, causes and impact of school suspensions and expulsions.

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19 August, 2025
Filed under: Education

How do we attract and keep teachers? It starts with respect

Professor Martin Mills has been an activist, a marathon runner, a teacher, an academic and a shaper of policy. He’s now on a mission to address Australia’s teacher shortage crisis and it’s not a problem only money can fix.

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15 July, 2025
Filed under: Education

Making men: Year 9 boys' experience of rites of passage program

Dr Jo Kingsman studied the experiences of Year 9 students in an all-boys Australian school who participated in a year-long rites of passage program designed to equip them for healthy manhood.

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5 June, 2025
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With a government review underway, we have to ask why children bully other kids

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2 May, 2025
Filed under: Health, Education

Schools today also teach social and emotional skills. Why is this important? And what’s involved?

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13 March, 2025
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The kids are not alright: how school trauma has created an explosion in homeschooling

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14 October, 2024
Filed under: Education
Educational impact

Creating a brighter future for all students

Professor Grace Sarra has spent more than 30 years making a difference in Indigenous and low socio-economic education.

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1 August, 2024
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More Indigenous children are going to preschool, but is this enough?

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29 July, 2024
Filed under: Engineering, Education

Would you send your child to school in a skyscraper? Vertical schools could revitalise our cities

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17 July, 2024
Filed under: Education

'My brain leaves the room': what happens when teachers talk too much

Students in our study reported some of their teachers talk too much. Why is this a problem? What can teachers do instead?

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