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It’s federal election season in Australia. On 16 March, the Grattan Institute dropped a new report aimed at “charting a path to a more prosperous Australia”, declaring it to be a “policy blueprint to improve living standards for all Australians, ...

Content warning: This story contains content that readers may find distressing. The murderer of former St Andrews' Cathedral School sport's coach Lilie James engaged in stalking and coercive control-like behaviour and even rehearsed how he would kill his victim, a ...

Queensland has become the final state to sign on to a historic public schools funding deal, with state Premier David Crisafulli signing off on a $2.8bn decade-long deal with the Commonwealth. The pre-budget agreement will support the state’s 560,000 public school students and will boost ...

As a student in the 1970s, I got it. Traditional, conventional, mainstream education worked for me. I lapped up the lectures, the monologues, the explaining, the direct instruction. It all made sense, and I thrived. My teachers talked as much ...

Staff at one of Melbourne’s most prestigious girls’ schools could go on strike over stalled talks about working hours and pay, the Herald Sun has revealed. Teachers and teacher aides from Strathcona Girls’ Grammar have been granted the right by the ...

The Grattan Institute has outlined a plan using "evidence-based" teaching to reduce curriculum-related teacher workloads and lift standardised literacy and numeracy test results, despite concerns teaching is becoming too mandated. In it’s Orange Book, which sets out policy priorities for ...

A survey of 500 independent school parents says the cost-of-living strain has made education funding a key election issue for private school families, particularly in seats Labor needs if the party is to form a majority government. The national poll, ...

The Grattan Institute's annual Orange Book, released on Monday, says government should establish an independent "quality-assurance" body for curriculum materials, and further push phonics screenings and evidence-based teaching in classrooms. In the past, the independent think tank has supported explicit ...

A new University of South Australia (UniSA) study found hands-on learning projects can improve confidence and creativity among disengaged high school students. Productivity Commission data shows national school attendance rates over the past year have decreased from 88.8 per cent ...

The private school union has said a "new chapter" has begun for a Canberra Christian school, which receives $10m of government funding a year but failed to pay staff or taxes. Brindabella Christian College, which charges parents between $10,575 and ...