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South Australia and Tasmania are the latest states to introduce a financial incentives scheme to lure bored and disaffected teachers into early retirement. The individual cash payments of up to $20,000 in Tasmania, and $50,000 in South Australia, are part ...

Teachers and principals in Western Australia are raising major concerns about the creation of a two-tiered public education system, as a result of the state government’s Independent Public Schools (IPS) program. Their concerns come as the Gillard Government moves to ...

Do science teachers in high performing countries do it better, or just differently? That’s the question a team of Australian researchers hopes to answer as they compare science teaching in the primary classrooms of Australia, Taiwan and Germany. The goal ...

At Arden Anglican School, Beecroft, Jenny Rodgers’ Year 3 students are sitting in a circle, waiting. “Let’s warm up our imaginations. Everyone gently rub your temples,” she suggests. All eyes are fixed on one boy holding a purple scarf. Slowly ...

Catholic schools in Australia have always been conscious of their mandate towards those who are disadvantaged. At a time when Mary MacKillop’s commitment to educating the poor has been drawn to public attention, the leaders of Catholic systemic schools (locally-based ...

A collective shudder went down the spines of hordes of high school-aged children across the world late last year when a US judge shut down the LimeWire file sharing service. Popular with many teenagers as a way to access music ...

10-year-old Daniel suffers from a condition that progressively deteriorates his sight. Daniel is now legally blind and eventually he will lose his sight entirely. Sadly, there is no cure or treatment for this condition. Daniel’s childhood often takes a back ...

It’s official. On 8 December last year, as schools across the country were getting ready to close the books on another year, state and territory education ministers gathered in Canberra where, with federal Education Minister Peter Garrett, they endorsed the ...

I pinched part of the title for this article from a book by Oxford economics professor, Paul Collier. The book “The Bottom Billion - why the poorest countries are falling apart and what can be done about it” makes the ...

Sorting through papers I’d collected in 2010, I came across one headed ‘Are autonomous schools the answer’. On it I had pencilled ‘To what?’ The article had clearly left me feeling I was being asked to contemplate not only ‘an’ ...