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It is alarming to find that the Gonski report is to re-establish the battles between the major lobby groups in school funding. This outcome is inevitable and indeed appears to be one the objectives of the report. In a climate ...

Bower acknowledges that there can be a gulf between what undergraduate students learn about in a university setting and what they actually experience in real classrooms. Natalie was eager to start putting into practice all she had learned during her ...

Dr Paul Brock gave us reasons in 2010 (Learning from the paths we have trodden to get to where we are now. Australian Educational Leader, Vol. 33, No 1 2011). Brock used the metaphor of history as a spiral. We ...

Queensland Premier Anna Bligh has promised an education centre for children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) as part of a $50 million package for students with disabilities, announced on Tuesday. The package includes $9 million to place speech therapists in state schools ...

The number of student places at Australian universities has increased by more than a quarter since 2007, figures released by government show. Some 545,000 students will be at universities in 2012, an increase of five per cent on the 2011 figure (488,000). ...

 The revolving door of reuniting abused or neglected children with parents when it is not in a child's best interests must stop, the Victorian government has said. A panel headed by former Supreme Court judge Philip Cummins has made 90 recommendations to ...

A cyber-safety course for high school students that aims to prepare them for the implications of the virtual world is being created by a team at Flinders University. The training program being developed by Dr Mubarak Rahamathulla is in response ...

Internet addiction, cyberbullying, sexting, and teaching kids to behave smartly online are some of the topics on the agenda at next month’s Kids in CyberSpace seminar in Sydney. Experts in the field speaking at the event include medical practitioners, law ...

OVERVIEW Australian governments must significantly increase funding for schools to help the nation's students achieve their best, the school funding review panel has said. Based on 2009 data, the increase would be at least $5 billion a year across Australia's education systems. ...

REACTION FROM THE STATES The Queensland government said that changes to school funding under the Gonski review must take into account the state's high percentage of disadvantaged students. Queensland's education minister Cameron Dick said he was keen to discuss the report's details with ...