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Sex, politics and religion, once taboo subjects in polite conversation, are now common fodder for robust debate and protest in our communities. But no subject is so divisive and capable of generating such intense passion as religion, especially when it ...

Eight days in August and eight in September. Six in October and five in November. That’s all the time that the House of Representatives has scheduled to sit in the second half of 2012. While only one or two days ...

The discipline of education seems to never be far from the spotlight of political and community focus. We see frequent calls from politicians, parents, economists and industry leaders to improve school learning outcomes by improving the quality of teachers. It ...

A group of year 10 and 11 students at a school south-east of Melbourne is the first in the country to study a Certificate III in Carbon Management. Taking on the role of carbon manager, the students at St Peter’s ...

The behaviour of teens over recent years has been changing, most would claim not for the better. Teachers and parents bemoan the rise of problematic behaviours in the classroom, playground and in the home. The “naughty” and disengaged boys show ...

The Australian Education Union has written to Tertiary Education and Skills Minister Chris Evans, along with the premiers and chief ministers of every state and territory, asking them to clarify their positions on aspects of the National Partnership on Skills ...

School education looks set to feature strongly in the forthcoming white paper Australia in the Asian Century to be handed to the federal government in the next few months, submissions indicate. More than half of the 250 submissions to the ...

Development snapshot of kindergarteners The federal government is collecting data on how young Australian children fare in key development areas for the second time in three years. More than 750 government and non-government schools across the nation will take part ...

As Australia moves towards a system of school autonomy, the role of the education business manager will become more professionalised, visible and valued within the education system. This manager will become increasingly central given the devolution of power and responsibility ...

Professor Barbara Comber tells a story about a school in South Australia. Waterwell Primary* serves a low socio-economic, linguistically and culturally diverse community in suburban Adelaide. Some 60 per cent of its children are on a school card (an indicator ...