Future Learners

The 2026 NAPLAN results showed one in three Australian students below the literacy and numeracy benchmarks. This quickly turned the conversation to screens. A petition for device-free primary schools gathered more than 25,000 signatures in two weeks, and the Federal Education Minister said Australian kids may need a digital detox.

In this episode, Brett Campbell and Ell...

A child can be doing well at school and still be struggling.

Ellen Brown talks with psychologist Lisa Boland about how to recognise that child and what to do first. Lisa believes that a child’s mental health should come before their schoolwork and their attendance record.

Ellen and Lisa also discuss what bullying does to a child&rs...

An important note for NSW families: nothing is in effect yet, and the current guidelines still apply until the policy is finalised. The draft keeps the three things registration has always asked of you: an education plan based on the NSW curriculum, records showing that plan is being delivered, and an assessment by an Authorised Person. It still doesn’t say exactly what’s required or how mu...

This episode delivers good news for parents, whether you’re already homeschooling or still considering it: the research is on your side. Homeschooled kids tend to do as well as or better than their peers, both socially and academically.

Dr Rebecca English is one of Australia’s most respected researchers in home education. She has spent 15 years studying home...

If you are considering homeschooling, have just started and are feeling overwhelmed, or have been at it a while and hit something unexpected, this episode is about finding support and navigating the questions and challenges that may arise.

Most families come to Euka for the thing that sits at the centre of homeschooling: the curriculum. As Australia’s largest onli...

Do you need to be a qualified teacher to homeschool your child? No, and the clearest explanation of why comes from someone who trains new teachers.

It is one of the questions we are frequently asked, and for a lot of families it is the one that stops them before they start. Ellen Brown puts it to Danielle McGregor, who covers what makes a good teacher, why parents consi...

What are the real benefits of homeschooling, from someone who actually lived it? Not the marketing version. The honest one, from a graduate looking back.

In this episode of Future Learners, Ellen Brown sits down with Jessica Garner, who was homeschooled with Euka from Grade 7 through to Grade 12, then went straight from graduating into a career at Euka, helping other fa...

Is homeschooling worth it? It’s the question almost every parent on the fence keeps asking, and in this episode of the Future Learners podcast, Ellen Brown puts it to someone with eight years of answers. David Smith, a long-time Euka parent, talks through what it was really like to homeschool three children.

David’s family didn’t come to homeschooling ...

In this episode of the Future Learners podcast, Brett Campbell and Ellen Brown tackle the question underneath almost every parent’s worry right now: how do I prepare my child for a world that is changing faster than the one I grew up in? The short answer is that preparing children for the real world is less about facts and figures and more about the skills a curriculum alone rarely teaches, and h...

In this episode of the Future Learners podcast, Brett Campbell and Ellen Brown put the lens on the senior years. As families near Term 3, the pressure of Grade 11 and 12 climbs, and so does the anxiety. The short answer they keep coming back to: yes, you can switch to homeschooling as a senior student, even mid-year, and you can do it without losing a year of progress.

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In this episode of the Future Learners podcast, Brett Campbell (CEO and co-founder of Euka) and Ellen Brown (co-founder and Head of Education) unpack one of the most misunderstood challenges parents face: school refusal. What it actually is, why it peaks in the middle of the year, and what a parent can do about it.

If your child has started dreading school, or mornings ...

In this episode of the Future Learners podcast, Brett Campbell (CEO and co-founder of Euka) and Ellen Brown (Founder and Head of Education) tackle the single most googled question they see from Australian parents every May, June and July. Can you start homeschooling in the middle of the school year? The short answer is yes, and often, the middle of the year is the smartest time to switch.

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