eUpdate - 2025

Period Poverty

Student perceptions on vaping

Kids helpline: kids targeted by deepfakes and sextortion

Only 20% of students tell about domestic violence

British schools issue parents with screen limits

NSW resurrects permanent school janitors

 

State budget

Loan scheme to support three-year-old preschool rollout

Cost of living makes financial education matter more

A healthier way to feed students

NT adopts explicit teaching

Deepfakes explained

 

What’s in education budget for SA

Parents hesitant about flu vaccine

Ending gender-based violence in schools

Mentor program to stem depression

28 new regional buses

How AI can help teachers

 

Applications to teaching degrees increase

Students as young as year 1 accessing pornography

In-school factors that encourage students to finish year 12

Powerful road safety program

Australian Education Awards 2025

Anti-bullying review

 

Attendance levels drop 15% in five years

Principal vacancies up 10%

Centrelink warning to parents

Bus safety for SA school children

Concussion warning about junior sports

New national guide helps support wellbeing

 

SA plan to keep principals and preschool directors

Greens campaign for free lunches for students

Maths resources coming for parents and teachers

Classroom under surveillance

Online gaming addiction

Police attendance at schools drops

 

Diet linked to overload of social media

National teaching awards

Concerns as student teachers plug shortage in SA

Bill Gates AI to replace major jobs in 10 years

SA education department firm on ANZAC Day

Make canteen guidelines consistent

 

Teen advisory group for minister

Mini Woolies program expands in SA

Despite big steps school inclusion still failing

SA country schools outperform private schools

Student & union concern about woke crackdown

Kids as young as 6 with suicidal thoughts call Helpline

 

Federal Budget

500th Education Update

More than 1 in 10 teachers fail literary test

What’s in the budget for SA

Students on Governing Councils

Madrid bans laptops and tablets in class

 

Problem-based learning keeps kids in school

Kids and teachers let down by monster curriculum

Significant jump in wages for teens

Explicit instruction push

21 new schools needed by 2051

Kids facing obesity epidemic

 

NAPLAN Starts

Creativity a better predictor of academic achievement

Inequity in schooling

How wellbeing shapes success

Debating

Note-taking pen or laptop

 

Major behaviour change after phone ban

Rapid review into bullying

Kids who skip breakfast have lower NAPLAN scores

Early AI crucial for students

VIC scraps teen criminal plan

Safeguarding Indigenous language

 

Students working in canteens and workers to be paid

Three days of subsidised childcare

ACARA report SA parents paying among highest fees

Civics call from classroom to community

How do biggest schools rank

School’s assumption on mum and dad

 

School kids behaving better since phone ban

Experts to conduct bullying review in schools

SA students ranked among worst in nation on civics

Growing disparity in government funding for public schools

Kids easily access social media

Teen parliament tackles big issues

 

Vaping rates falling among young Australians

High quality childcare in SA

SA schools given list of approved sex education providers

Students tackle cyber threats in escape room

Teen parliament

School retention rates

 

Real cost of public education

Overhaul of Teacher Registration Board

Canteens in crisis

$50m funding announced for SA public schools

Great Parent Survey 2025

Help anxious kids settle into school or childcare