As the expense of living severely impacts families, one of Australia's leading daycare providers, G8, is slapping parents with its third fee hike, slapping them with up to a 17% increase in fees in just a year.
An urgent 25% wage increase is demanded by frustrated Educators who claim they are overworked and underpaid in order to address issues with excessive turnover in the sector.
World Read Aloud Day is celebrated on Wednesday, 01st February. For the first time ever, Scholastic is hosting a worldwide WRAD-A-THON for a series of live interactive read-aloud shows. It kicks off in Australia at 11 am with Australian author…
All Australian, state and territory Education Ministers have now collectively approved updates to Australia’s EYLF and MTOP-approved learning frameworks.
Daycare educators in Finland laid out grass, planted forest undergrowth (such as dwarf heather and blueberries), and let children tend to crops in planter boxes. According to a Finnish study, one month of playing among the vegetation and debris in…
Since the start of the pandemic, mental health illnesses including anxiety have increased in children as young as 18 months old, while more teenagers have acquired depression and suicidal ideation, according to experts.
Australia is addressing its scarcity of teachers, childcare workers and childcare centre managers by prioritizing their skilled visa applications where they will get their visa applications assessed in three days.
Cloncurry Childcare Centre, in Queensland's outback, has been looking for a childcare teacher for the council's early learning centre for three years but has been unsuccessful in doing so. There haven't been any applicants for the position despite the offer…
An award of nearly $200,000 was given to a Queensland Educator who stumbled over a Lego brick and hurt her ankle. She tripped while dragging a section of the obstacle course from a shed and suffered an ankle injury that…
More early educators leaving the industry than ever before have been attributed to a "perfect storm" of reasons. Within the past week, 39 early childhood services shut down due to a lack of educators to run them.
