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Labor leader Bill Shorten has committed the opposition to working with the federal government to limit commonwealth funding for rich private schools. "I don't want to make private versus public some sort of partisan or party-political issue," he said. However, ...

Professor Steve Clarke from Charles Sturt University’s School of Humanities and Social Sciences is a philosopher specialising in issues related to conscientious objection. He recently co-authored a paper on the obligations of parents who object on religious, moral or philosophical ...

Teaching and classroom environments are changing faster than ever. Here's a look at why technology should matter to every educator in 2017. With curriculum planning complete for the start of the academic year, technology and the role it’s expected to ...

One principal’s passion for teaching has yielded a fulfilling career of helping others to achieve. Frank Ali did not begin his career as a teacher, though he completed his studies to become one in the 1970s. Instead, he entered the ...

Playball Australia is a sports-based school-readiness program that seeks to impart social skills, resilience, hand-eye coordination, concentration, confidence, life skills and cognitive skills, all via the magic of playing with balls! Tammy Ceppi is the Australian ballmaster, corralling the teams of ...

In a bumper first episode of Talking Eds for 2017, the team behind Campus Review, Education Review and Early Learning Review look at how adopted babies are recalling language skills, epigenetic twin variations, international student destinations, non-completion rates at Australian universities ...

The University of Sydney hosted a week of mentoring programs in mid-January 2017 for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander high school students. Pupils in years 9 and 10 were part of the Wingara Mura program while those in years 11 ...

Printing documents is such a quotidian part of life working in the education industry that one rarely considers it for more than a second. You receive an email you want to save for later meeting, an interesting piece of online ...

January is a quiet and relaxing time for students transitioning from the hectic nerves of high schools' final days to the exciting dawn of a new academic experience at university. As each sunny day passes, however, anxious anticipation starts taking ...

Australia's 15-year-old students have progressively declined in reading, mathematics and science over the past 12 years, according to results of the triennial Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA). Singapore topped the survey, which focuses on OECD nations, followed by Japan, ...