This story appeared in the February 2014 edition of Australian Teacher Magazine.
NSW Education Minister Prue Car has proposed that every Year 1 primary school student across the country take a numeracy test, because kids who are struggling need to be identified and helped much earlier.
New Zealand’s education woes have been well documented in recent years.
Building on its outstanding success in Victoria, where 94 per cent of participants are teaching after graduating, a new cohort of aspiring primary teachers will start their journey through the Nexus program from Term 4 in New South Wales schools f...
The Government’s changes to the Ka Ora, Ka Ako-Healthy School Lunches Programme – designed to save NZ$107 million a year – have understandably aroused passions in those closest to the issue.
A program to support reef tourism operators through the pandemic by turning the Great Barrier Reef into Queensland’s biggest classroom reached a major milestone recently, with an amazing 30,000 students approved for subsidised excursions.
Policymakers risk magnifying inequality across Australian schools if pricey small-group tutoring initiatives are baked into upcoming funding agreements, one researcher has warned.
Tech giants including Apple, Google, Meta and Microsoft have been issued with legal notices by Australia’s eSafety Commissioner, requiring the companies to report to the regulator every six months about measures they have in place to tackle online...
The phrase ‘evidence based’ has underpinned much of what has happened in the teaching world recently, particularly when it comes to reading skills in the early years.
Schools across the nation are set to receive a multimillion-dollar boost as part of an ongoing national push for consent and respectful relationship education.
Australia’s largest school system begins its biggest overhaul in 30 years from today as explicit teaching is rolled out in New South Wales primary classrooms in a curriculum shift aimed at reversing sliding results.