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Closing the gap in educational outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander (First Nations) students in Australia requires an urgent focus on addressing the policy gap and attendance cliff in the crucial transition from primary to secondary school.

Early childhood educators play a critical role in the lives of young children. Supporting their well-being is an individual, community and organisational responsibility. This study examines the social and environmental factors that influence early childhood educators’ relaxation and provide new insights to better support well-being.

Children understand and experience relaxation in their own way. This can be different from what adults understand. Researchers at the Institute for Social Science Research at The University of Queensland investigated how young children in Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) experience relaxation.

Ability School Engagement Partnership Project – shifting behaviours and perceptions

The Ability School Engagement Partnership (ASEP) Project is an innovative third-party policing partnership targeting the complex and costly problem of school truancy.

The risk clusters that lead to inequalities in children’s reading achievement at school

Early childhood literacy provides a pathway out of disadvantage but this pathway is vulnerable to the clusters of early childhood developmental risk factors that it seeks to mitigate.