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Industry leaders have called for caps on places in teaching degrees, following an ABC report that universities are offering places to students who leave schools with ATAR scores close to zero. The figures are contained in a confidential report obtained ...

Thousands of childcare workers are walking off the job to push for higher wages, but the federal education minister says he doesn’t decide pay rates. About 7000 early childhood workers went on strike on Wednesday afternoon to hold rallies across ...

Nine new books written in Kriol have been launched to help boost Indigenous literacy. Students from St Joseph’s Catholic College in Katherine, Northern Territory, took their first trip to the big smoke, visiting the Sydney Opera House for Indigenous Literacy ...

Schools now have their hands on early NAPLAN data, a day after two US professors called for the marks to be discarded, and questioned the futility of comparisons with previous years. ACARA today released the NAPLAN 2018 summary information, which ...

There was a popular story shared by kids in my hometown about a local school career counsellor. It went like this: A student went to Mr X and told him that he wanted to be a Ghostbuster. Mr X nodded ...

First-year biology students are “rapidly abandoning” beliefs in theistic involvement in human origins. That’s according to annual polling of university students on their views on evolution and creationism. Researchers asked UNSW Sydney biology students to circle one of the following: ...

Young people often turn to social media to talk about suicide-related thoughts and behaviours but have had limited access to guidance on how to do so safely. Now, they – along with teachers and parents – have access to a set of guidelines focused ...

Parents and teachers will be able to compare the standardised NAPLAN test results of students who took the exams online with those who used traditional pen and paper. The national assessment body says its data analysts have confirmed the two ...

Research consistently shows that many students become disengaged in their schoolwork as they move further into the middle years of high school. As students become disengaged, they participate in class less often, enjoy school less, become less interested in schoolwork, ...

Many students aren’t getting opportunities to connect with industry, and government must make efforts to bring the worlds of education and work closer together, a thinktank has argued. In its report Connecting the worlds of learning and work, the Mitchell ...