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There are now more Year 7 to 10 students in private schools in the ACT than in public schools. This received national publicity when the ACT government's 2011 school census report was released in April. There was much speculation about ...

It's hard for anyone, from teachers through to school and system administrators, to escape the ever-insistent demand for school improvement and, yes, even revolution. Calls for changes in educational provision, management, curriculum, and pedagogy come from all corners. And, almost ...

The present ministerial council for education is an ill-designed and ill-suited body for formulating and driving a national vision and a national agenda for education, says the recipient of the highest award conferred by the Australian College of Educators NSW. ...

The NT education minister Chris Burns has refused to back down on the territory's controversial English-only teaching policy, releasing a clarified but fundamentally unchanged version of the original policy. Dr Brian Devlin, a bilingual education expert from Charles Darwin University, ...

A husband and wife have put the western Sydney schools they teach at on the cutting-edge of technology by creating iPhone applications that enable students to access class materials, teachers to mark attendance and parents to order school lunches. Beaumont ...

The Gonski school funding review panel has been told that it is possible to create and administer a single benchmark for baseline funding of all Australian schools, to which financial 'loadings' could be added to reflect school and student characteristics. ...

Serious concerns about the ability of universities to secure placements for pre-service teachers have been raised with the Productivity Commission's inquiry into the schools workforce, with faculty staff calling for a re-think of government plans to uncap the number of ...

Getting students to create their own images of scientific concepts instead of just having them copy existing models and diagrams helps them grasp complex concepts more easily, a study says. Deakin University's Professor Russell Tytler, chair of science education, is ...

Three years into the Australian Government's education revolution, school principals remain unconvinced, with many opposing key elements of the reforms. A new survey of 1600 school leaders, commissioned by Principals Australia, shows widespread division over the external push to reform ...

A strong message for the Federal Government from the Principals Australia survey is that principals do not like the idea of doling out rewards to teachers based on a quota system. Asked if they support the proposed quota, in which ...