VIC – World leader on school improvement, Professor John Hattie, has spoken at a conference for principals in Melbourne.

NT – Students from Lanhapuy Homelands School have created video clips designed to be watched on mobile phones that encourage smokers to quit or to not take up smoking.

NATIONAL – Head of World Vision, Tim Costello, has said geography should play a prominent role in the national curriculum, to ensure students understand climate change, asylum seekers and issues surrounding indigenous Australians.

NATIONAL – The Australian Psychological Society has criticised federal funding for school chaplains, saying the program is ‘dangerous’ to student’s mental health.

NATIONAL – Teacher education is set to be overhauled next year, with higher entry standards in English and maths being set.