Former Victorian education minister Martin Dixon will not run in the 2018 state election. Mr Dixon announced on Wednesday that he would not contest Liberal Party preselection for the seat of Nepean and will retire from parliament at the next election
MELBOURNE, Aug 10 - The former school teacher and principal was first elected in 1996 and became education minister in 2010.
He also served in a ...
Victoria's examinations authority has denied Year-12 exams were compromised by a sample papers blunder caused by human error.
Australian primary teachers are ‘trailblazers’ on the global stage when it comes to teaching grammar, an expert in the field has said.
A brand new OurFutures vaping program, which aims to prevent young people from taking up vaping, has been officially launched.
Federal ministers have written to parent groups and school principal peak bodies to outline details of its proposal to ban children under 16 from using social media.
A new paper co-authored by researchers from UNSW Business School and University of Sydney suggests that Australian students’ NAPLAN scores remained stable during periods of remote learning, offering a different perspective on academic performance ...
An explicit mathematics program for teachers that promises to lock in success for every K-2 student has been launched by a group of teachers and maths experts.
Chronic absence in students has doubled in the last decade, according to new research from ERO, and the system for addressing it has been deemed ineffective and failing.
Every year, a quarter of a million Australian students find themselves overwhelmed by the high-stakes pressure of Year 12 exams - an outdated system that promises to “define their future,” but at what cost?
Albert Einstein once said: “In the midst of every crisis lies great opportunity”. It took a pandemic to prove just that, accelerating education’s “Blockbuster moment” as schools were forced to solve chronic student absence that started long before...
Professor Gail Gillon, a world-leading expert in children’s speech, language and reading development has been appointed Education Commissioner for the New Zealand National Commission for UNESCO.
