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The federal government’s early years reform will push the wages of teachers and workers up by 10 per cent while childcare fees could rise by 15 per cent, a new report warns. The Productivity Commission’s Early Childhood Development Workforce inquiry ...

Queensland Premier Anna Bligh has revealed the first major plank of her election strategy, promising to set aside half of liquefied natural gas (LNG) royalties for a new education trust. The initiative will quarantine an estimated $1.8 billion over the ...

State school principals in Queensland could be given the power to hire staff, and the schools could be given cash grants to spend on capital works, under a proposal to shift decision-making back to them. The Queensland government released a ...

A thousand schools across Australia will have more control over hiring and firing staff, their budget and even school hours from next year, under the federal government’s Empowering Local Schools initiative. However, the precise form that autonomy takes will largely ...

The Productivity Commission has said the federal government should defer its national performance bonus scheme for teachers until it is known how to design one effectively. In a draft report on the school workforce, released last Thursday, the commission said ...

A Western Australian high school teacher had been recognised at an international event for her use of technology in the classroom. Athena Hain-Saunders, a science teacher from Newtown Moore High School in Bunbury, Western Australia, was awarded the first runner ...

State MPs will attend ethics classes in NSW schools, as part of a parliamentary inquiry into the teaching of the subject. Christian Democrat Fred Nile has welcomed the inquiry, saying the subject is "a fraud". The multi-party inquiry will look ...

A crackdown on indigenous truant children in the Northern Territory that will be linked to cutting parents' welfare payments has been described by critics as a "tick the box exercise". The federal government announced on Monday that truant indigenous children ...

Schools need more targeted funding to meet the needs of poorly performing students and to reduce the gap between children from different backgrounds, education experts say. A report by the Council of Australian Governments (COAG) Reform Council released last week ...

The stretched budgets of governments across the world could be the dawn of the learning revolution, says a leading educator from the UK. Professor Stephen Heppell, the chair in New Media Environments at Bournemouth University’s Centre for Excellence in Media ...