21st century skills

An international study has recognised Australia’s 15-year-old students as having strong skills in creative thinking. 

A new report that reveals just under half of Australian students in years 6 and 10 are not meeting expected standards in science, could also point the way to improving engagement with it.

An Australian research database that promotes critical thinking and counters misinformation is now available to secondary school students, schools and public libraries.

Australian teenagers with higher levels of curiosity than others performed better in mathematics in the world’s largest assessment of 15-year-old students, a new report has shown.  

Teenagers in every Australian state and territory experienced disruptive maths classrooms and bullying at greater levels than the OECD average, a new report on student experiences shows.

Two Australian school teams will represent Australia in this year’s International Mathematical Modeling Challenge (IM2C), thanks to their approach to finding a solution for the post-pandemic trend of abandoning pets.