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NSW education minister Andrew Piccoli has commissioned a discussion paper, on reforms to improve the standard of teaching, from the Education Department, the NSW Board of Studies and the NSW Institute of Teachers. Piccoli has also addressed the NSW Council ...

The celebration at the end of year 10 was originally established as an event for students to mark the completion of their school certificate. It also served as a milestone for those who would be leaving school to move on ...

Schools in the Kitchen is a youth education and volunteer program exposing students to the social and environmental impacts of food wastage in a positive and interactive learning environment, whilst teaching them some handy cooking skills. Working with Melbourne businesses ...

Participants at a conference showcasing best practice in indigenous education will walk away with their own plans for change, says the man behind the event. Tying in with the theme From Rhetoric to Reality, the Stronger Smarter summit 2012 in ...

I recently presented a demonstration of a game called SuperBetter to my school counselling colleagues. My boss was genuinely surprised when she realised it did not involve shooting anything with powerful weapons, flinging birds into objects or chasing medieval goblins ...

There are more than 3500 officially reported cases of child sexual abuse made to child protection authorities and police each year in Australia. The Australian Institute of Family Studies estimates that fewer than 30 per cent of all child sexual ...

Recently, Christopher Pyne has been very vocal in his criticism of the teacher education offered by universities. He told Sky News that universities have “pumped out thousands and thousands of graduates with what I believe is not an adequate education ...

Minister Garrett was responding on Tuesday to plans by the NSW government to lift professional standards and make it easier to fire underperforming teachers. He said he didn't think the teaching profession needed to be more selective. "It is not necessarily a fact ...

NSW Education Minister Adrian Piccoli launched a discussion paper on Tuesday - titled Great Teaching, Inspired Learning - which aims to "increase the professionalism of the profession". Piccoli said ATAR entry scores for would-be teachers were often too low. "We graduate 5500 teacher graduates and employ between ...

The Queensland Teachers Union (QTU) organised the Tuesday afternoon rally to protest at state government plans to remove their conditions in return for a pay rise. QTU president Kevin Bates says the government wants to make the conditions part of its own ...