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The latest SEEK employment report shows job advertisements for education and training had the third highest growth (3 per cent) in the year to November 2019, despite a significant drop in job ads nationally. Community services and development led the ...

Yesterday was both nerve-wracking and exciting for Year 12 students across NSW who received their Admissions and Tertiary Entrance Rank (ATAR). Unlike the ‘good old days’ when students had to wait for the postie to deliver the all-important news, this ...

After a long career in the public service and and working as a education consultant, Fleur Johnston built the data analytics platform PeopleBench to help principals, in particular, "build an organisational strategy that could set the direction for a school ...

Despite the reform agenda made at the two-day Education Council meeting in Alice Springs, the Australian Education Union (AEU) has labelled it Groundhog Day. The AEU believes Australia’s education system is stuck in a “time loop of bad policy, no ...

After the release of December’s disappointing PISA results, student achievement, teacher quality, curriculum content and quality-assurance measures were destined to be on the table at the Alice Springs (Mparntwe) Education Declaration, which concluded on December 12. Here are some of ...

Researchers at Monash University have found a link between academic performance and eating disorders among female students. The Australian-first study found that high-achieving female students who later developed eating disorders felt strong, positive emotions when they did well in their ...

Dr Majeda Awawdeh is a former high school teacher who exited the education sector after "15 years of frustration". In this podcast, she talks about some of the causes of Australian students' slide in maths across the years and considers ...

The Morrison government will prioritise Indigenous students’ education and outcomes after releasing the Alice Springs Declaration on Wednesday. This year's meeting was particularly timely, given Australia's sliding international ranking results and the lack of a silver bullet to address the ...

Despite what we constantly hear about tests like PISA and NAPLAN, a national invention competition suggests Australian kids can still think creatively and solve pressing world problems. Recently, national finalists gathered at Taronga Zoo in Sydney to present their inventions ...

A commitment of $46 million to support early childhood education and care (ECEC) has been announced by Federal Minister for Education Dan Tehan ahead of this week’s Education Council meeting in Alice Springs. The aim of the funding is to ...