The year in education will be remembered for the Gillard Government's attempt to bring all Australian schools under one government funding regime dominated national education policy initiatives and absorbed considerable energy within the schools sector right up to the federal election.
What has been the most significant achievement in the sector this year? Congratulations to all Australian schools and those who ...
Platforms that breach Australia's world-leading ban on children accessing social media could be fined up to $50 million under proposed new laws.
Practical placements have long been a conundrum for Australian education, with last year’s Strong Beginnings report revealing ‘a spectrum of experiences’ relayed by frustrated preservice teachers and a distinct lack of consistency at play across t...
Over the past 20 years, average reading performance has been stagnant for Year 5 students with fewer high-achieving readers among the cohort than there were in 2001 or 2005.
With recent research by the Australian Society for Music Education (ASME) revealing a sharp decline in the availability of high-quality music education in Australian schools (from 23 per cent in 2010 to only 16 per cent in 2021), innovation and cr...
Female educators face systemic discrimination, gender bias and hostility that’s actively hampering their progression into school leadership roles, a new report has flagged.
Operating like a spell checker for toxic language, a new tool flags potentially harmful messages before they are sent, encouraging users to reconsider their words.
Truancy rates have risen faster in developed English-speaking countries since the COVID-19 pandemic than in non-English-speaking countries, according to a new working paper by UCL researchers.
ACT is the latest jurisdiction to sign on to the Federal Government’s Better and Fairer Schools agreement, putting more pressure on the remaining powerhouse states, which continue to hold out for a better funding deal.
Almost half of all Year 12 exams in Victoria were affected by a blunder that allowed students to view questions before sitting the test, leading the head of the exam authority to quit.
Educators and leaders in Victoria’s public schools are being gagged by strict media policies that prevent them from airing concerns about the state-wide shift to explicit instruction and the science of learning, one principal has said.
