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Tablets and other devices must be managed and stored quickly and easily, so they enhance teaching instead of getting in its way. By James Symons The first Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development PISA assessment of digital skills, released in ...

Six schools, each affiliated with the Australian Federation of Islamic Councils, could lose their Commonwealth funding after being handed non-compliance notices relating to failures in financial management and governance. The issuing of notices follows a formal review of the schools by ...

Twenty Queensland students have been collectively backpaid $28,000 after being shortchanged for work they undertook while completing school-based traineeships. The students, aged between 15 and 18, had worked one day a week over several months last year at sporting organisations, ...

A contractor who contaminated a Melbourne primary school with asbestos has been ordered to perform a detailed clean-up. The unnamed contractor carted truckloads of soil strewn with asbestos fragments into Syndal South Primary School in Mt Waverley as part of ...

A plan to cut childcare benefits from parents who don't immunise their children should be reviewed after a year, a parliamentary committee has recommended. A Senate inquiry report on Wednesday says concerns the `no jab, no pay' legislation could infringe ...

More than 40,000 Victorian teachers may be set to share in millions of dollars in wage repayments after the Federal Court of Australia last week ruled that pay deductions the Department of Education and Early Childhood Development made to pay ...

Canberra principal builds sustainable success by developing professional confidence. By Madeleine Regan "Leadership is about developing more leaders,” says Jason Borton, in his fourth year as principal at Richardson Primary School in Canberra. Borton has been a school leader for ...

The Queensland Catholic Education Commission has criticised the latest stop work action by teachers in many Queensland Catholic schools as industrial negotiations over pay and conditions continues. More than 7500 Independent Education Union members in more than 180 schools were authorised to stop work ...

Letter to the editor: Why the shock and surprise at abuse of disabled children in our schools? By David Roy Once again we have a report of children who are disabled being caged or imprisoned in a school in Australia. ...

A personal safety app has been launched by the mother of murdered Adelaide schoolgirl Carly Ryan. Sonya Ryan - whose 15-year-old daughter was groomed online and murdered by a pedophile in 2007 - has launched Thread, a free safety app ...