An education academic has argued that Adrian Piccoli “needed to go” from the New South Wales education portfolio, following newly minted premier Gladys Berejiklian’s cabinet reshuffle.

Tammy Ceppi heads up Playball Australia, a sports-based school-readiness program that seeks to impart social skills, resilience, hand-eye coordination, concentration, confidence, life skills and cognitive skills, all via the magic of playing with balls!

Soon after the school year kicks-off comes the annual swimming carnival. But, as a new study from Deakin University has shown, all the calories burnt off by the kids are often quickly replaced by a trip to the tuckshop.

Researchers have determined that the so-called autism epidemic is driven by more children with less severe behavioural symptoms being diagnosed, not because more children are born with the condition.

In a bumper first episode of Talking Eds for 2017, the team behind Campus Review, Education Review and Early Learning Review look at how adopted babies are recalling language skills, epigenetic twin variations, international student destinations, non-completion rates at Australian universities and the importance of mentoring students from high school to university.

The University of Sydney hosted a week of mentoring programs in mid-January 2017 for Indigenous and Torres Strait high school students. Students in Year 9 and 10 are part of the Wingara Mura program while those in Year 11 and 12 participate in Bunga Barrabugu. Campus Review sat down with two Year 12 students completing the program to find out more. In the first interview I speak with Nunka-Wa-Ru Pearce from Dubbo College Senior Campus. Following this, I chat with Lachlan (Lockie) Eveston from Marist College in Canberra.

Make maths fun, says Matific's Brent Hughes.

Maths should be fun, that’s the message to teachers from Western Sydney University's associate professor Catherine Attard.

Education Review spoke with Adam O'Neill about printing security and what you can do to avoid breaches.

Tanya Ilkiw, project development officer at Diabetes New South Wales & Australian Capital Territory and who lives with Type 1 diabetes, saysthere isn’t a consistent management plan, in schools in NSW, for students with the condition.