The NSW Education Department has announced it will review its current internet filtering policy. This announcement is not before time. Relevant 21st century learning and teaching demands we engage with the tools of today’s world, the technologies young people know and ...
More »Swapping asphalt for grassy hideaways
Landscape fulfils two essential roles in children’s lives and education; as a place of play and as a place to experience nature. In today’s society, both of these things are diminishing or being challenged. Why is this? And why is ...
More »Volunteers tell of life-changing experience
When Christine Pheeney embarked on a two-week trip to Indonesia in 2005, she never imagined she would still be living and working there seven years later. Yet she counts her experiences as a volunteer in a developing nation as some ...
More »Philanthropy and Schools – A Changing Paradigm
Philanthropy can reveal much about the true fabric of a nation. As much as Australians might take great pride in the values of mateship and the fair-go, this does not always translate into clear measurable outputs when it comes to ...
More »Injuries greatest cause of youth deaths
Car crashes and suicides are the top two causes of death for young Australians, while road accidents are the main causes of adolescent deaths worldwide, researchers say. An international study of adolescent health, published in the British journal The Lancet, ...
More »New transparency measures for independent schools
Australia's education ministers have agreed to measures designed to make non-government schools more transparent about how they spend the government funding they receive. Federal School Education Minister Peter Garrett on Friday welcomed the agreement by ministers’ meeting in Perth to ...
More »Money management programs recognised
People who had an inspirational teacher at school are more likely to earn a high salary later in life, according to a new study. Of nearly 2000 people surveyed in a Commonwealth Bank Foundation study, nearly 80 per cent of ...
More »Victorian teachers set to strike
Thousands of Victorian teachers are preparing to begin rolling work stoppages from June after the breakdown of wage talks between their union and the state government. The Australian Education Union said it is preparing for a lengthy fight against the ...
More »Industry, TAFE back COAG skills agreement
Industry bodies and TAFE have praised the results of last week’s Council of Australian Governments meeting, saying it is a good step towards solving the country’s skills shortage. “[The meeting] reached an important agreement that ramps up the effort in ...
More »Lost in translation
In his first major speech since quitting as foreign minister in February, Kevin Rudd has said Australia needs to reverse the worrying trends in Asia literacy. Rudd said Australia has to improve its performance to reverse declining student enrolments in Asian ...
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