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The government is preparing to respond to the school libraries and teacher librarians' inquiry report more than four months after it was presented in parliament. The Minister for Education, Peter Garrett, confirmed to Education Review the government's response to the ...

The concerns of educators over implementing the national curriculum have been allayed with the government's announcement of funding to create a "digital curriculum package" of online materials and resources. However, teacher associations have said the funding should go directly to ...

The Australian Academy of Science has renewed its call for the federal government to restore funding to the Science by Doing program. Academy president Professor Suzanne Cory said an independent evaluation found junior secondary school students taught using the academy's ...

Regardless of the outcomes, the Gonski review and the four commissioned research papers it recently released are a game-changer in a decades-old debate. They already form a benchmark against which future decisions will be judged. We've had ample research and ...

"An ill-suited body for formulating and driving a national vision and a national agenda for education". That was how the present ministerial council for education was described by leading educationalist, Brian Croke, director of the NSW Catholic Education Commission , ...

Monday, August 1 saw the long-delayed release of the draft NSW version of the new Australian English curriculum. Now sit back and watch the fights; not quite Tour de France, but it's always entertaining to watch argie-bargie over new English ...

The most intriguing aspect of the four papers commissioned by the Gonski funding review panel and released August 31 is the fact that neither the education minister, Peter Garrett, nor chair of the review, David Gonski, wanted to acknowledge ownership. ...

I have heard of all kinds of silliness that clusters around committees but I think New Zealand took the cake recently when a committee representing key education groups came together for a weekend assembly. The lofty purpose of this committee? ...

If the digital world is the one which your students increasingly inhabit, how do you go about ensuring they behave in an ethical way? How do you prompt young people to consider their actions have consequences in the virtual world, ...

Many of us remember being startled from a 1970's heat-induced classroom doze by the fearful speaker box springing to violent life. When I visit schools and see these artefacts from a gentler, more analogue time, I secretly fear it will ...