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Opposition education spokesman Christopher Pyne said last week if Labor did anything to undermine non-government school funding "we will dismantle (it)". Mr Pyne wants the government to extend the existing school funding model for two years. It's due to expire at the end of 2013. School education parliamentary ...

The NSW Government says a new resourcing model for public schools will make funding fairer. But Labor and the Greens argue that the reform is just a different way of dividing up a shrinking pool of school funding. The new Resource ...

The San Diego-based Pacific Intercultural Exchange (PIE) has been suspended from the US visa program used by students on exchange trips over undisclosed rule violations. The US State Department says the suspension affects eight students currently in the US and ...

Almost two out of three severely obese children under the age of 12 have at least one risk factor for heart disease such as high blood pressure or high blood sugar, researchers say. Dutch researchers have found that 62 per cent of ...

Prime Minister Julia Gillard met the premiers and chief ministers on Wednesday for COAG, which had the Gonski schools funding review and the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) at the top of the agenda. While there was a result for ...

The federal opposition says too much has been spent on reducing school class sizes and not enough on lifting the quality of teachers. Opposition education spokesman Christopher Pyne says Australia's education system is not attracting the best people to the profession. "We have ...

Digital literacy levels have gone up for year 6 students but they haven’t improved for year 10 students. And a student’s digital literacy is affected by their background, geographical location and to a lesser extent their gender. These results are ...

Public schools could be forced to close across Victoria with thousands of education support staff workers poised to join teachers and principals in a mass strike. Fair Work Australia on Thursday granted an Australian Education Union (AEU) request to let its 7000 members ...

Stripping millions of dollars in funding from disability services in NSW schools will seriously disadvantage students with special needs, a union says. The government denies that money is being cut but admits schools may lose resources if enrolments change. Parents ...

Education rather than the carbon tax or asylum seekers was the focus of questions at a forum hosted by the Prime Minister in Queensland this week. Less than two weeks after the implementation of the federal government's carbon tax, the ...