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  University of Melbourne expert tells NAPLAN inquiry teachers lack the resources and techniques to support their best learners.  By Antonia Maiolo Too many schools are failing to challenge their brightest pupils, a leading education academic has warned in a ...

A documentary inspired a school head to spend his long-service leave helping poor children in Phnom Penh. It became a passion. By Antonia Maiolo In January this year, Simon Gipson, head of St Michael’s Grammar School in St Kilda, Melbourne, ...

The right management weave is essential to create a strong and appealing school. By Helen Wright As schoolteachers and leaders, we understand that leadership matters in schools at all levels. The McKinsey & Company 2010 report into school leadership globally, ...

Conference of principals looks for ways to make better leaders through education. By Pip Field Inspiring global leadership was the focus of the 11th World Convention of the International Confederation of Principals, held in Cairns this July. Conference participants embraced ...

Web portal’s launch links students across the country to a large, growing network of online educational experiences. By Aileen Macalintal Virtual Excursions Australia, a program dedicated to promoting video-conferencing, was launched on July 11 at the Interactive Technology in Education ...

  The two major parties have begun outlining their education policies for the September election, with frustratingly few details. by Fran Molloy In the lead-up to the federal election in September, education policy will be under the collective microscope – ...

  Education ministers have agreed to publish Year 12 study scores that show entrants into initial teacher education programs have the necessary literacy and numeracy skills to succeed in their career. This followed the ministers decision in 2011, that entrants ...

The Queensland Government announced an independent review of senior assessment and tertiary entrance processes is underway, to provide school leavers receive with fair and comprehensive recognition of their academic achievements. Minister for education, training and employment John-Paul Langbroek said the ...

The features and issues in school playgrounds have been examined in world-first research by RMIT University. Dr Barbara Chancellor, a senior lecturer in the School of Education, surveyed 350 government primary schools in Victoria. The research, published in the July ...

An independent survey has shown that school principals are seven times more likely to be the victims of physical violence than members of the general public. In the latest Principal Health and Wellbeing Survey, Dr Philip Riley from Monash University ...