Education Review The latest in education news

The Standards were released by Education Ministers in February and are a public statement of what constitutes teacher quality. They define the elements of high-quality, effective teaching in 21st-century schools and provide a framework that makes clear the knowledge, practice ...

The App lays out the exposure draft of the National Professional Standard for Principals. The Standard is represented as an integrated model that recognises three leadership requirements that a principal draws upon within five areas of professional practice. Pilot studies ...

Educational leaders from the government and nongovernment sectors, the professional associations, the institutes of leadership around the country and the teacher unions came together to hear the findings of the ten pilots studies which had been conducted to test the ...

The Council of Australian Governments (COAG) has been warned by its own Reform Council that it is not on track to halve the gap in literacy and numeracy by 2018, as outlined in the National Indigenous Reform Agreement. The COAG ...

The Federal Government has unveiled a new strategy designed to get indigenous children into preschool. The government said it has already allocated $970 million over five years to ensure that by 2013 all children have access to a preschool program ...

The latest cyber safety program educating children on how to use the internet safely has been launched. Federal Home Affairs and Justice Minister Brendan O'Conner last Friday launched the latest stage of the ThinkUKnow program, which will allow schools to ...

Queensland's Year 7 students will make the shift into high schools from 2015. Premier Anna Bligh announced the move at a conference for secondary school principals in Brisbane this morning, generating a round of applause from the crowd. She said ...

Understanding the factors that influence the career decisions of teachers, so as to better support and retain experienced staff, is the primary goal of new research underway. Former high school teacher Loene Howes is recruiting former and current teachers and ...

Australia's international education sector remains strong, with new figures revealing it added more than $18 billion of export income to the economy in 2010. An Australian Education International research snapshot released today found the $18.3 billion worth of earnings was ...

Reducing the discount students get when they pay their university fees upfront will halve the number of people who take advantage of the incentive, an education official has said. The federal government announced in last month's budget that from next ...