Public school principals are struggling to provide adequate funding for students with a disability and report having to siphon funds from other school budgets to make up for the shortfall, according to the Australian Education Union’s (AEU) 2020 State of ...

A new report has found that Australian student achievement has continued to decline despite being one of the highest spending countries on schooling in the world.  In a report by the Centre for Independent Studies’ (CIS) Glenn Fahey, titled Dollars ...

An article written by ACER’s CEO Professor Geoff Masters has drawn attention to an issue relating to one of the common paradigms of school culture: the year-level school curriculum. As he states in his article, “the role of the curriculum ...

EducationReview · Dr Kate de Bruin | How education for people with a disability needs to change Dr Kate de Bruin, an expert and lecturer in inclusive education at Monash University, recently provided evidence to the Royal Commission into Violence, ...

The NSW government will offer free tutoring next year to disadvantaged students who have struggled after periods of home learning during the COVID-19 pandemic.  In a first for the state, the tutoring will be provided by casual and retired teachers, ...

October is Down Syndrome Awareness Month and this represents a special time for educators of students with Down syndrome and others with a range of cognitive and non-cognitive abilities. More informed models of teaching mathematics must include rich, comparable educational ...

The latest Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) report highlights that Australia’s public spending on education is shrouded by private investment and is below the OECD average. Dr Emma Rowe, an expert in school funding and education policy at ...

The Australian Education Union (AEU) is sceptical about a proposed new form of assessment called the Australian National Standardised Assessment (ANSA) after a review into NAPLAN last week. The NAPLAN review was commissioned by the Queensland, NSW, ACT and Victorian ...

The Media Centre for Education Research Australia (MCERA) has created a weekly series that asks educational experts to address some of the most pertinent issues affecting education in the time of COVID-19. MCERA believes it’s critical that educators learn something ...

Three schools in the Illawarra region of NSW will now have their own academy of STEM excellence under the NSW Department of Education’s STEM Industry School Partnerships (SISP) Program. The Illawarra Academy will be based at three local high schools ...