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Three Queensland state schools remained closed as the school year began on Monday, but every child will sit in a classroom, the state government has said. As 489,000 students go to class in Queensland state schools, only one high school ...

The University of Canberra is to introduce a total ban on bottled water from its campus. It's believed to be the largest ban of its kind in Australia and the first across a university. Organisers say the ban will stop ...

The start of school is an important milestone in a child’s development. It is not just about the first day, but is a process that starts weeks before and continues months after the start of first term, according to psychologists ...

The national curriculum won't be taught in all Australian schools until at least 2013, two years after anticipated originally. Federal, state and territory education ministers met in Canberra on Wednesday to discuss the new Kindergarten to Year 10 English, mathematics, ...

Australian students are still performing well above the OECD average but their results in reading literacy and mathematical literacy have declined significantly over recent years, a new international education report has revealed. The triennial OECD Program for International Student Assessment ...

Taxpayers may have paid $188 million too much for the government's Building the Education Revolution (BER) stimulus program in NSW, the state's auditor-general has said. Although construction work under the scheme was rapid, building costs were too high and the ...

Victoria's new coalition government says the state's teachers deserve to be the highest paid in Australia, after the union demanded a 30 per cent pay rise over three years. After the Australian Education Union (AEU) Victorian branch said on Monday ...

There has been mixed reaction to the federal government's decision to delay the revamped My School website until next year. The site was to have launched today but has been pushed back until 2011. School Education Minister Peter Garrett said ...

The notion that violent video games lead to aggression and crime in the real world is contested and inconclusive, a research review has found. Classification ministers across Australia are considering the need for an R18+ computer games classification. The highest ...

Just 12 months ago half of all Aurukun state school students, from Grade 1 to 10, were reading at kindergarten or pre-kindergarten level. Now, for the first time, there are students in the Cape York community learning at the same ...