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 Teachers' salaries must be linked to national teaching standards to improve the quality of teaching or Australia risks sliding backwards on international measures, a leading education academic has said. Professor Stephen Dinham of the University of Melbourne said that previous attempts to drive ...

 Indigenous children's brains need special training to prepare them for the school classroom, a parliamentary inquiry has heard. Speech pathologist Mary-Ruth Mendel, who founded the Australian Literacy and Numeracy Foundation, appeared before the parliamentary inquiry into indigenous languages last Thursday. Mendel told ...

The federal government has been challenged over changes to childcare arrangements, which may result in Victorian parents being unable to send their three-year-olds to kindergarten-style care. A motion by Liberal member Alan Tudge asking the government to give more flexibility ...

Kindergarten children could hold the key to reducing crime rates, according to the head of CatholicCare Melbourne. Father Joe Caddy said investing in social inclusion programs at pre-schools, playgroups and health centres in low socio-demographic areas could be more effective ...

Rules which require teachers in the Northern Territory to conduct classes only in English have come under fire in submissions to a federal parliamentary inquiry into language learning in indigenous communities across the country. A report published on the government’s ...

Author Kate Grenville has written to the Northern Territory Department of Education and Training (DET) to apologise for her comments made at an Indigenous Literacy Day event in Canberra earlier this month. Grenville visited the indigenous community of Manyallaluk recently ...

Advocates fear that a parliamentary inquiry report into teacher librarians will be passed over in a busy parliament. The report from the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Education and Employment was tabled in May but has yet to be ...

The more affluent and educated a mother is the more likely she is to get involved in her child's education, read to her child and help them with their homework. Further, children in higher socio-economic brackets are more likely to ...

With a raft of national reforms in the process of implementation, Australia's early learning landscape is undergoing a seismic shift. The result of a Council of Australian Government (COAG) commitment to improving outcomes for young children, the reforms are detailed ...

When the 1600 school leaders who undertook the Principals Australia survey were asked to score their proficiency across a range of benchmarks, rural and remote practice ranked third from the bottom. Just 14 per cent rated themselves as highly proficient ...