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While the Victorian government is spruiking a $469.5 million boost to education and early childhood development in its 2010/11 budget, the education union has said the funding level is a disappointment. Australian Education Union (AEU) Victorian president Mary Bluett said ...

The task for teachers is always to educate their students, not just to give them schooling. By schooling, I mean the functional apparatus of schools, textbooks, lesson plans, units of work, assessment. Education is more than that. It is what ...

Frank’s* childhood was brutal and unfeeling, like the military discipline that governed his family home. From a young age, his abusive army officer father beat him repeatedly. His mother, who was emotionally absent, often sent him to school without lunch. ...

Canterbury Primary School in Victoria is headed by principal Anne Tonkin with associate principals Kim Dray and David Wells. It has 580 students and 40 staff. Last month Kim left Canterbury to assume a principal’s position. Anne Tonkin says The ...

Picture this. You’re travelling through rural Kyrgyzstan. You’ve just climbed a steep mountain and come across a small remote village. The inhabitants are not accustomed to many Western visitors, but nonetheless you strike up conversation with some locals. Could you ...

The draft national curriculum, which is currently out for consultation, is peppered with references to technology. And that, says the Australian Curriculum Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA), is entirely by design. ACARA is charged with developing national curricula for K-12 ...

The draft national professional standards for teachers have been released for consultation and, much like the national curriculum, have the profession talking. The standards describe what is required of teachers at four levels of professional expertise – graduate, proficient, highly ...

The government’s P21 program looks set to achieve its intended outcomes, with economic indicators showing it helped reverse the decline in non-residential construction caused by the global financial crisis. However, the recently released report of the Auditor-General into the P21 ...

Leading science educators have defended the teaching of climate change against charges of classroom indoctrination – describing it as a matter of scientific literacy However, disagreement continues over teaching methods, with many arguing for its explicit and mandated place in ...

Schools may be unwittingly breaching federal legislation by failing to effectively deal with both parents following a separation or divorce. New research has found that despite a federal law stating both parents should have a role in their child’s education, ...