Across the developed world teachers earn, on average, less than other workers with university degrees. But teachers in the United States are paid even less than their counterparts in most developed countries. According to an annual report on the state ...

The Victorian transnational education experience, especially with China, has provided widespread benefits for students and the community. During the years that preceded China's entry into the WTO in 2001 Chinese high schools were encouraged to focus on the teaching of ...

Great Britain might have finished third on the medal table at the London Olympics but debate continues about the amount of playing field space available to children. The government education secretary, Michael Grove, has relaxed the rules that set out ...

A homework hotline, open until 10pm, six days a week, is catching on with teachers and students. Kirrawee High School in Sydney's south began subscribing to yourtutor, a one-to-one, online homework centre, at the end of term two with pleasing ...

Students throughout the Sydney region are being encouraged by teachers to get creative, as part of a literacy competition called The Poetry Object. The competition, run by The Red Room Company, encourages primary and secondary students as well as their ...

The San Diego-based Pacific Intercultural Exchange (PIE) has been suspended from the US visa program used by students on exchange trips over undisclosed rule violations. The US State Department says the suspension affects eight students currently in the US and ...

Australia will spend $80 million over the next four years in an attempt to increase the number of Burmese children completing primary school. Foreign Minister Bob Carr on Saturday announced the new funding while visiting AusAID education projects in Burma. ...

Having spent three and a half decades in the education system, Lou Single has learnt a thing or two about teaching, young people and the challenges that come from disadvantage. For the past eight years Single has been working at ...

With soaring ceilings, modern pops of colour and clever pockets for play and retreat that maximise every spare centimetre of space, the redesign of St Joseph’s Primary School has had a transformative effect on students and teachers. As a result ...

Sex, politics and religion, once taboo subjects in polite conversation, are now common fodder for robust debate and protest in our communities. But no subject is so divisive and capable of generating such intense passion as religion, especially when it ...