A senate inquiry has heard that Gonski funding aside, schools aren’t doing enough to prepare students for life. Victoria University’s Mitchell Institute Director Megan O’Connell told the inquiry on the future of work that an intense focus on grades has led ...

A curriculum overhaul across NSW schools will revert back to the basics such as English, maths and science, the government says. It’s the first review of the state’s school curriculum in 29 years, with NSW Education Minister Rob Stokes saying ...

The national schools chaplaincy program has had its funding renewed on a “permanent basis”. The federal budget included nearly $250 million over four years to cement the at-times controversial pastoral care program in Australian schools. “We are extending the national ...

As expected, the 2018 Budget has delivered cash for the latest education reforms, the most notable of which is Gonski 2.0. The plan will see schools receive an additional $24.5 billion over the next 10 years, on a needs basis. While Gonski ...

Administration, box ticking exercises and data-related menial tasks waste valuable preparation time and get in the way of delivering authentic learning Administrative tasks and record keeping had more than doubled in the past five years I feel overworked at the ...

Gonski has once again hit the headlines. This time, however, a school funding aggregate focus has been sidelined to debate how the money should be spent. This is due to the release of the businessman and education advocate’s government commissioned report on ...

In the February issue of Education Review I was interested to see in the table of contents an article titled “The end of segregation: Research shows single-sex schools won’t exist by 2035”. As head of a single sex school, this came ...

Australia’s Chief Scientist, Alan Finkel, has an ATAR-related grievance. “Students select their courses with an eye to a number: the ATAR to enter a particular course,” he wrote in his introduction to the STEM Industry-Schools Partnerships report. “Rightly or wrongly, ...

This year, Harvard admitted a record high 20.3 per cent of students from modest or low-income backgrounds. Also, for the first time in a decade, a majority (50.1 per cent) of its admissions were female. There’s even an argument it’s becoming so diverse it’s ...

While certain experts think NAPLAN bizarre, parents and teachers, plausibly with more skin in the testing game, vociferously support it. Officeholders from the Australian Council of State School Organisations (ACSSO), the Australian Parents Council (APC), and the Isolated Children’s Parents’ Association of ...