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 ...

Conflict between state and federal policy is leaving the schools sector confused about who is in charge, an expert has said. Dr Glenn Savage, from University of Melbourne’s Graduate School of Education, said there are degrees of confusion throughout the schooling ...

Want to solve the teaching crisis in Australia? Change its perception amongst the young, writes Sarah Carman. After ironing out the intricacies of ionic bonding with a Year 10 student, his somewhat justified “When will I ever need to know this?!” ...

A new OECD report shows Australia’s heavy investment in computer technologies has failed to improve student performance in reading, mathematics and science. Students, Computers and Learning: making the connection showed Australia has one of the highest expenditures per student on ...

Independent schools have called on new Education Minister Simon Birmingham to undertake an overhaul of schools funding. Birmingham – a South Australia-based senator who since December last year had served as an assistant to former education minister Christopher Pyne – ...

Prospective students will soon be able to compare contrasting higher education courses and institutions on the eagerly anticipated Quality Indicators for Learning and Teaching (QILT) website. Based on thousands of surveys students completed across Australia each year, the government-funded but ...

There is much to worry about when politicians declare that Victoria is to become the “Education State.” Will this declaration lead to more political distractions, trendy slogans and appeasements to parents instead of making a difference in classrooms?  We have ...

Labor has slammed the Abbott Government for the large decline in apprentices since its election in September 2013. New figures from the National Centre for Vocational Education and Research show apprentices in training in September 2013 totalled 417,700. This is ...