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NSW state schools will receive a $6 billion windfall in the upcoming state budget, with new schools, classrooms and upgrades planned over the next four years. The funding boost aims to cater for the state's increasing student population, set to ...

On individualised learning How can we cater for individual difference [between students]? It has been the problem for forever. The government is now saying this is an economic problem. I'm really excited by that. - Daniel Wolf-Clark, chief executive, myEdOnline (part ...

Fittingly, at the largest education event in the southern hemisphere, the foremost antipodean education official spoke. Simon Birmingham used his address to the vast EduTECH crowd to celebrate the education reforms of the past year. Yet while the Education Minister mainly rhapsodised ...

Templestowe College, in Melbourne's north-east, is the antithesis of ordinary. Though it has typical markers: public, mostly middle-class, and average NAPLAN results, its teaching style is radical. While Year 8-level literacy and numeracy attainment is mandated, almost everything else isn't. There are ...

Education always has been – and still is – central to Julia Gillard’s career. It is also clearly part of her core. The former Education Minister and 27th Prime Minister of Australia is now the chair of the Board of ...

Choosing final-year school subjects is a challenging time for students – students may be tempted simply to avoid Maths or Science and therefore miss out on the foundation for many future opportunities. According to a recent SEEK Employment Report, the ...

The teenage angst anthem Creep, by Radiohead, contains the following lyrics: I'm a creep, I'm a weirdo. What the hell am I doing here? I don't belong here. The British rock band could have been alluding to the latest batch of ...

For years, there have been intermittent reports of animals in captivity lashing out, and even killing themselves and their trainers and keepers. The 2013 documentary Blackfish brought this issue into sharp relief. It told the story of Tilikum, an orca whale implicated ...

If you've ever heard a student ask, 'how does this maths equation relate to real life?', 12 fellow students have answers. Hailing from Canberra’s Radford College and Baulkham Hills High School in Sydney’s north-east, based on this ability, they were selected from ...

A survey of 200 Australian parents reveals what many already think about cyberbullying between kids: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. It's not that they don't care; on the contrary, 80 per cent are concerned about it. It's they don't know how to deal with it, ...