Student mental health is an increasingly pressing concern in higher education globally, yet efforts to deal with this issue are often hampered by inconsistencies in defining and measuring mental health and wellbeing.
This Act provides for a national code, the National Higher Education Code to Prevent and Respond to Gender-based Violence. The national code applies to higher education providers, and can impose various requirements on them in relation to gender-based violence.
The findings of these reports are based on an Australian Research Council Discovery Grant research project which aims to improve leadership preparation and development for school principals to help them manage complex emotional workload demands.
This report outlines the role of non-government organisations in supporting young people’s sexual health and wellbeing in Australia.
School‐based relationships and sexuality education (RSE) offers broad social, emotional and physical health benefits. However, many teachers feel unprepared to deliver comprehensive, contemporary RSE.
The National Framework is intended to provide a best practice framework for schools to build into the process and policies they already have established in the school.
The purpose of the Review was to examine what is working to prevent and respond to bullying in Australian schools and what needs strengthening, before reporting to Education Ministers.
This toolkit has been developed to support schools in understanding, planning, implementing and sustaining a whole-of-school approach to preventing gender-based violence by promoting gender equality and respectful relationships.
The Respectful relationships education (RRE) blueprint provides guidance to strategic policy and decision makers, the RRE workforce and cross-sector stakeholders responsible for schools at all levels of government and across school sectors.
On 23 February 2024 Education and Higher Education Ministers agreed to and released the Action Plan Addressing Gender-based Violence in Higher Education. This Action Plan aims to create higher education communities free from gender-based violence.