Mobile Phones Now Banned in Schools Across Australia

Technology should be ’seen as a means, never an end,' and traditional teaching methods should still be employed working symbiotically, UNESCO says.

Mobile phone usage in Australian schools is now banned. PATRICK HERTZOG/AFP via Getty Images

Mobile phones in Australian schools are now banned under federal law in a policy announced by Minister for Education Jason Clare today.

In July, Mr. Clare said the time had come for a national policy on phones in state schools. The policy creates uniformity with state education stakeholders, many of whom had some sort of policy already in place in their territories.