Teachers have secured a multimillion-dollar deal with the state government after initially being denied a say on how ...

School (s-k-oo-l) is overhauling how it teaches young students to read with new back-to-basics lessons on phonetic ...

I empathise with Colleen Sweeney’s experience trying to report suspicious items (Traveller Letters, December 28). At Bangkok’s Don Mueang Airport, I also once experienced a complete lack of ...

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Schools can play a role in improving parents’ digital know-how so they can help their children work through online class assignments at home. But they can’t do it alone, concludes a report ...

The often-dreaded cover letter is your secret weapon for standing out. Despite its importance, only 38% of candidates submit one for a job posting when required. The truth? A generic, formulaic ...

A collection of letters sent between Winnie the Pooh author AA Milne, illustrator E.H. Shepherd and publisher Frederick Muller is to be sold at auction. They were discovered among papers belonging ...

again,” Alice Munro told a friend in a buoyant letter of March 1975. For Munro, who was then emerging as one of her generation’s leading writers, the previous few years had been blighted by ...

Too many school systems simply pass kids along in the hopes that they will naturally pick up reading skills over time, rather than catching and fixing gaps early. An early phonics check would make ...

Many individuals have been left puzzled after receiving letters with a handwritten 'P' on the envelope. However, there's a straightforward explanation for this. Letters undergo a process before they ...

Some perplexed people have been receiving envelopes with the letter P handwritten on them - and it turns out there's a reason behind it. A letter has to go through a complicated process before ...