University of Melbourne researchers have outlined the four key steps to school connectedness; an important factor in students' learning and development.

University of Melbourne researchers have used Bluetooth technology to track how visitors at Melbourne Museum interact with the exhibits.

University of Melbourne research shows it's hard for both local and international students to make friends on campus without intervention from teaching staff.

With a bit of planning, parents can use Christmas to teach kids how to slow down and be kind to other people, says University of Melbourne expert Lea Waters.

Dr Peggy Kern, of the University of Melbourne, believes that managing digital habits should be approached in a similar way to dieting.

Niklas Labba, Academic Director of the Centre for Sámi Studies at the University of Tromsø – Artic University of Norway, explored the importance of First Nations voice and constitutional recognition during his 2018 Narrm Oration at the University of Melbourne last night.

A new joint survey from Dr Peggy Kern, The Wellbeing Lab and the Australia HR Institute reports people working in the consulting industry are the most likely to consider themselves "consistently thriving" in the workplace.

The Wellbeing Lab Workplace Survey, conducted in partnership with Dr Peggy Kern from the University of Melbourne and supported by the Australian HR Institute, recently asked a representative sample of just over 1,000 Australian workers how their wellbeing was faring.

In the Indigenous Homelands of East Arnhem Land, University of Melbourne preservice teachers are learning the unique value of place and listening

A University of Melbourne study identifies the top ten characteristics great teachers share, with high levels of self-efficacy making the biggest impact.

The notion of ‘western civillisation’ has divided modern historians; a University of Melbourne expert says we need to explore and question ‘western thinking’.

In education, feedback can be powerful in assisting students and teachers in improving. John Hattie has written about the “big ideas” in education, identifying what has the greatest effect on student learning.

Assessing what works in the classroom using reason, not intuition, would help educators invest more wisely, argues John Hattie from the University of Melbourne.

The latest Life Patterns report from the University of Melbourne shows the environment is the biggest issue of concern for both Gen X and Gen Y.

Strategic Plan 2018 – 2021 Melbourne Graduate School of Education

A flawed vocational training system is letting down Australia at a critical time for skills. Two University of Melbourne experts have a simple plan to fix it.

Leading educators have acknowledged universities can do more to embrace technology and deliver students with value for money but they need to get faculties onside and the basics right first.

Clinical teaching turns the tables. It involves the monitoring, evaluating, then the adaption of a lesson, during the lesson, to ensure it meets the needs of each student.

EARLY childhood education provides the essential foundations for literacy and numeracy learning, according to University of Melbourne Associate Professor in early childhood education and care, Tricia Eadie.

Some Australian schools, including at least one Catholic girls school, are reportedly trialling facial recognition technology that takes the place of teachers doing the morning roll call.

Australian higher education is fearfully exposed to any decline in demand from China. So, policy paladin Frank Larkins, sets out incontrovertible evidence in a new paper for the L H Martin Institute.

Dr Merryn Dawborn-Gundlach said the IB Diploma developed a broad skillset, as well as critical thinking and cultural awareness.

Honorary Professor Michael Bernard, from the University of Melbourne, recently delivered his program ‘Bullying: the power to cope’ to 100 Melbourne school students to strengthen positive attitudes and coping skills.

Poorer performances in grammar and punctuation by students who sat NAPLAN online are among the problems worrying education officials as they desperately try to resolve a stand-off that is delaying the release of this year's results.

Victorian Education Minister James Merlino has raised the alarm about NAPLAN online being expanded to more schools and is calling for an urgent review.

Everybody knows it but nobody much says it, Australian higher education is fearfully exposed to any decline in demand from China. So, policy paladin Frank Larkins, sets out incontrovertible evidence in a new paper for the L H Martin Institute.

Costly private schools do not give students any long-term boost in the job market or improve their salary prospects, a new study has found.