New results-focused initiatives are welcome but disunity over funding remains a contentious issue. The new Coalition schools policy, Quality Schools, Quality Outcomes, was announced without fanfare two days before the Budget. It is easy to see why. The main political ...

Budget day 2016 was an epic encounter of punch, counterpunch and commentary. Here is how the day unfolded, in reverse chronological order! 3:40pm Osman Faruqi, writer and political activist, has given the Coalition some rare praise for seemingly axing the ...

Many parents stop reading aloud to their children to get them reading independently but a new report has found this doesn’t foster a love of reading. The Kids & Family Reading Report – from school book publishing giant Scholastic – elaborated that ...

There’s no doubt that school funding will be a significant election issue and that what the Australian Labor Party and the Australian Education Union describe as the ‘Gonski funding model’ will be centre stage. Notwithstanding the AEU’s ‘I give a ...

The Australian Greens are taking the policy of $4.6 billion in Gonski funding for students with disabilities – to be rolled out over the next four years – to the next election. Styling themselves as the only party to fund the needs of ...

If the peak body for group training organisations gets its way, the upcoming federal Budget will contain proposals to run all school-based apprenticeships through group training. Group training is an employment arrangement whereby a GTO recruits apprentices, and places them with host ...

The Australian Education Union’s State of Our Schools Survey 2016 has found that teachers feel a lack of preparation in meeting the needs of students with a disability, whilst principals said they ‘siphon’ funds to meet needs. It is clear pre-service ...

Just under three-quarters of teachers say their pre-service training didn’t prepare them adequately for educating children with a disability. This data comes from the Australian Education Union’s State of Our Schools Survey 2016. Two-thirds of public school teachers surveyed also said ...

One-third of children nationwide don’t attend enough preschool, leaving one-fifth of children, many from the poorest backgrounds, developmentally unprepared for school – a new report has identified. Quality Early Education for All: Fostering creative, entrepreneurial, resilient and capable learners by ...

Deakin University researchers are examining happiness through the eyes of adolescents with autism. Wellbeing and autism researchers from Deakin’s School of Psychology – led by professor Nicole Rinehart – said they hoped the results of this study would give a ...