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REACTION FROM STAKEHOLDERS The Public Education Foundation (PEF) welcomed the Gonski review's support for philanthropic fundraising for education. "Crucially, the review recognises that an even playing field does not currently exist between public and private schools when it comes to philanthropy," PEF chief executive ...

A learning and networking environment for Australia’s school principals that aims to bridge sector and geographical divides has been launched this week. Principals Australia Institute (PAI) is behind Palnet, a website for current and future school leaders that was developed ...

NSW students who leave school before completing their HSC will be given several attempts to sit new tests replacing the abolished School Certificate. Students will be allowed to sit for the Record of School Achievement (RoSA) two times a year between Years 10 and 12, NSW Education ...

The only indigenous member of federal parliament says the latest Closing the Gap report into disadvantage doesn't look enough at urban Aboriginal people. While Liberal MP Ken Wyatt praised the report, released by Prime Minister Julia Gillard yesterday, he said ...

The Australian Drug Foundation has launched what it says is Australia’s most extensive range of drug educational tools. The new ADF Shop website is a place where educators, health workers or parents can access the largest collection of educational materials ...

A 60-hour working week is the norm for a quarter of Australian principals and almost half spend 25 hours a week in the office during school holidays. On top of this heavy workload, some 46 per cent of principals volunteer ...

It’s clear that the Australian school education landscape is in for further profound change in 2012. Enhanced autonomy for 1000 principals under a national trial; the release of the Gonski panel’s review into school funding and the government’s subsequent response; ...

Just as the country was quietly winding down for the Christmas break, the long-running discussion about declining enrolments in science in the senior years took an interesting turn. The Australian Academy of Science released a report which claimed that year ...

Two years ago, central city high school Perth Modern was doing pretty well. It ranked third among government schools and 18th on the contentious Western Australia Curriculum Council league tables, representing year 12 students with scores in the top third ...

SPECIAL REPORT: DRAMA If schools wish to prepare students for success in the 21st century, we have to rethink the curriculum structure as a whole - and the place of educational drama and theatre. The recent 2010 European study, Drama ...