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The great education machine of Australian schools is grinding into action again for another year. In about 9500 schools, 184,000 teachers will stand between 3.5 million students and their futures. The social contract is clear. Students are required to attend ...

Shifting the rhetoric of a well intentioned resolution for improvement into action that is only practical and sustainable is a challenge. Since the year ticked over and The Biggest Loser returned to the small screen, my morning run along the ...

Reaction has been mixed to the announcement that a discount on HECS fees for maths and science subjects will go, as outlined in the federal government’s mid-year economic and fiscal outlook. Maths, statistics and science units will attract Band 2 ...

Programs promoting healthy food and exercise help prevent children from becoming overweight or obese, Australian researchers have found. A major review of 55 international studies of school-based and other structured programs encouraging healthy eating, exercise and positive body image found ...

The finding has prompted calls for doctors to check new fathers for signs of depression, similar to how mothers are routinely screened for postnatal depression. The Australian researchers found the effects of paternal depression in the first year of a ...

In what has been hailed as a significant investment in science and science education, Nobel Laureate Professor Brian Schmidt has donated $100,000 of his Nobel Prize money to the Primary Connections program. The Australian Academy of Science, which developed the ...

High school children are the target of a new long-term program that seeks to foster social responsibility in the country’s youth through volunteering and ultimately a gap year abroad. Young People Without Borders (YPWB) is an initiative of the Foundation ...

Pupils studying the same subject may be marked using different methods under sweeping changes planned for Victoria's public school system. Under the reforms, which would be introduced in 2013 at the earliest, students could elect to be assessed by sitting ...

The federal government has denied its education revolution is at risk of stalling after Labor found a billion dollars in savings from the sector in its mid-year budget review, released on Tuesday. Several prominent school sector programs have been delayed ...

Australian schoolchildren would be required to learn an Asian language under a proposal put forward by Deputy Opposition Leader Julie Bishop. Bishop said she will push to have the plan adopted as coalition policy before the next federal election. "I ...