eUpdate - 2025

Education Update 524
12 November 2025

New 40kmh school zone speed limit

Can online yoga help kids with autism

AFP tool to protect teen girls from deepfake porn

Vic limits screen time for primary students

Which kids likely to be bullied

Maths shake-up

 

Teachers’ union wishlist for urgent school reforms

Everything you need to know about social media ban

Year 12 exams start

Don’t ban teens hold platforms accountable

New York school’s way around AI

Unis miss teacher training reform deadline

 

World Teachers’ Day

100 GPs given power to diagnose ADHD in SA

Costs smash struggling families

Year 12s need to ditch AI before exams

Parents spending to avoid morning chore

OSHC squad to lift standards

 

National bullying standards

Early years maths review

Sunshine games and new friends

Anti-vaxxers using Facebook to dodge vaccination laws

VET shouldn’t be considered a plan B

School bullying alarming new tactic

 

The perfect diet for exam season

SA school attendance continues to improve

Australian teachers second most stressed

Road safety should be taught in classroom

VIC primary schools slash screen time

Two out of 10 kids walk or ride to school

 

Australia’s social media laws hailed as world-leading at UN

SA leads the nation in apprenticeships

Some co-ed schools embrace segregated classes

Adelaide High forced out of T20 cricket competition

SA pledges $4m boost to community language schools

SA national spelling bee champion

 

How students are using department’s chatbot

Social media age checks

Should schools have more support staff

School readiness shock

Kids of teen mums face stigma

Nation-leading NSW childcare reform

 

Success of social media eating disorder trial

SA’s new Children’s Commissioner

Minister to create teaching super group

50% of teachers don’t know how to help ADHD students

Private schools to report on students with disability

National online school for kids with ADHD, Autism and anxiety

 

SA’s top young spellers

National bullying review says tech ahead of policy

Parents divided on school for Autistic children

Retiring Commissioner let kids be kids

Kids 6 hour-a-day screen habit

Literacy skills changing not declining

 

$21m watchdog for SA childcare & OSHC

More South Australians train in areas of need

Sextortion scam preying on students

Department reveals which schools will be over capacity

Vote now for best Book Week costume

Regional teacher shortage

 

Disadvantaged SA schools defying the odds in NAPLAN

Cricket captain champions kids literacy

Royal Commissioner urges SA to end parents smacking

What students really think of phone ban

Children with mild Autism to be removed form NDIS

All the VIC schools being named after Indigenous words

 

Calls for teachers to use AI

ADHD medication shock

Education department rejects call for performance targets

New data shows extent of bullying

Australia’s biggest phone addicts

Speaker takes parliament to SA schools

 

Personal phones banned in SA childcare & preschools

$84m fund to boost support for SA’s young

2 in 5 parents say kids use AI for emotional support

85 new schools in 5 years

Crusader wants porn literacy

Mr Ms or first name – how teachers decide

 

NAPLAN results 2025

YouTube Ban

Experts -should we ban YouTube

I won’t set homework

Hoodie linked to improved concentration

We may be overdoing mental health awareness in school

 

Improved education outcomes for SA’s Aboriginal students

SA students want more discussion

Apprentices in priority areas climbs

New teaching resources

SA commits to funding for non-government schools

Creating connections between students and energy

 

School breakfast – more kids than ever

Social media ban – teachers can’t resolve everything

One in Three university students drop out

More children start school developmentally vulnerable

Outlaw screens for under-threes

Bullying in playgrounds

 

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