The government gives a Gonski. Or, according to Labor, at least that’s what they want you to think. This week, Malcolm Turnbull unveiled his Quality Schools reforms, which includes $242.3 billion in recurrent funding over the next 10 years. Different to ...

Tasmania will cut the Safe Schools program after federal funding expires, being the second state to do so in a week, following the lead of New South Wales. Federal funding for the anti-bullying and education initiative expires at the end of ...

The UK minister of state for school standards has advised a federal phonics panel, which is looking at introducing a mandatory, nationwide Year 1 phonics check. While the details of what Nick Gibb told the panel are unknown, he did ...

Imagine your busy household, on a Tuesday evening. Your children are watching TV, you are tidying away the dishes after the evening meal. Your mind drifts to the pile of laundry waiting from the weekend sports, the homework that needs ...

On 8 November 2016, divisiveness changed the climate of American schools. On this day, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump won the race to the White House against Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton. Trump’s campaign was built on influential xenophobic rhetoric that ...

Sport is a cornerstone of Australian culture but children with disabilities often miss out. A Deakin University program is hoping to change this with the help of the AFL, the National Disability Insurance Agency and Moose Toys. AllPlay, led by ...

Mention the terms ‘intellectual giftedness’ and ‘learning disability’ and there is a general understanding of what each term means. However, most people are unaware that in many circumstances the two can go hand-in-hand. Current US research suggests that 14 per ...

The Independent Schools Council of Australia has expressed extreme concern over possible changes in government school funding arrangements. Colette Colman, the lobby group’s chief executive, has written a letter to all federal MPs. In the letter, Colman wrote that “sudden ...

The educational gap between city and regional is growing, a new report has shown, prompting a call for people in the country to enrol in some form of education. The Regional Australia Institute (RAI)’s Human Capital Index, released Tuesday 28 ...

A new report from Victoria University’s Mitchell Institute has argued that schools must focus more on students’ character, or in the paper’s term, students’ “capabilities”. Professor Bill Lucas – the Mitchell Institute’s international adviser and director of the Centre for ...