A plan to cut childcare benefits from parents who don't immunise their children should be reviewed after a year, a parliamentary committee has recommended. A Senate inquiry report on Wednesday says concerns the `no jab, no pay' legislation could infringe ...

More than 40,000 Victorian teachers may be set to share in millions of dollars in wage repayments after the Federal Court of Australia last week ruled that pay deductions the Department of Education and Early Childhood Development made to pay ...

Education must learn to get better at getting better, an expert has said. In a guest lecture at the University of Technology, Sydney, professor Tony Bryk, president of the US-based Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, said education fails ...

The Queensland Catholic Education Commission has criticised the latest stop work action by teachers in many Queensland Catholic schools as industrial negotiations over pay and conditions continues. More than 7500 Independent Education Union members in more than 180 schools were authorised to stop work ...

Studying the languages and cultures of Australia’s neighbours must become an education priority, an expert has said. Dr Jane Orton, from the University of Melbourne Graduate School of Education said Australian students – throughout the whole spectrum of education – ...

While recent stories of kids with autism being detained by their teachers have hit the media spotlight, many similar incidents may be occurring without scrutiny, an official has said. Autism Awareness Australia chief executive Nicole Rogerson said the fragmented nature of the ...

A quarter of Australians in their mid-20s are not engaged in full-time work, training or study – a report from the Mitchell Institute has shown. Equal opportunity in Australia 2015 examined young people’s progress through four key educational milestones, from ...

Education Minister Simon Birmingham has defended the government’s spending on supports for students with a disability after comments he made during a Senate estimates hearing last week sparked industry fears of future funding cuts. Birmingham's defence also followed strong criticisms ...

Creative writing is undervalued in schools, a professor of teacher education at the University of Sydney has said. Professor Robyn Ewing said the implementation of high-stakes standardised testing throughout schools, such as NAPLAN, has led to storytelling and creative writing not being ...

The Australian Education Union has called on the federal education minister to fix declining entry standards for teaching courses. This comes after professor John Hattie, head of the Australian Institute for Teaching and School Leadership (AITSL), expressed his support for ...