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State and federal education ministers have endorsed assessment standards for the new Australian curriculum and a framework for national teacher registration. They have also got behind a proposal to fund professional development for principals and a national model to identify ...

As part of a Council of Australian Governments commitment to improving outcomes for children in the early years, a suite of reforms is being implemented across Australia's early childhood education and care (ECEC) sector, under the umbrella of the National ...

First you take a student. Figure out their economic and social status, what mum and dad do for a living and where they were born. Stir in what you know about their school, the resources it has and which state ...

The history of education is a diminishing field in Australian universities and no longer a compulsory part of pre-service teacher training, much to the detriment of the teaching profession, academics say. Professor of education at Charles Sturt University, Bill Green, ...

Over the last 18 years, Australian research in schools, in particular the Secondary Schooling and Sexual Health (SSASH) studies have consistently revealed that around 10 per cent of young Australians are sexually attracted to people of their own sex or ...

With the last of the Building the Education Revolution (BER) buildings soon to be completed, interest has shifted from what to build, to how to occupy these new facilities. Although the impetus of the BER scheme was to boost the ...

On the same day Prime Minister Julia Gillard delivered a speech on the importance of Australia's engagement with Asia, her education minister announced the last round of funding under the four-year National Asian Languages and Studies in Schools Program (NALSSP). ...

Student feedback looks to become an integral part of the teacher performance scorecard if recommendations from the Nous Group are acted upon. The proposal is backed by research and has the support of at least one state education minister, however, ...

Does homework benefit students' academic achievement or motivation? What constitutes high quality homework? And how much homework is the right amount? A forthcoming book by two Australian researchers promises to revive the decades-old homework debate by reviewing the best of ...

The primary responsibility for improving university education for indigenous Australians must transfer back to schools, says Professor Lester-Irabinna Rigney, the new dean of Aboriginal education at the University of Adelaide. Rigney said that universities were playing "constant catch-up" with their ...