The latest SEEK employment report shows job advertisements for education and training had the third highest growth (3 per cent) in the year to November 2019, despite a significant drop in job ads nationally. Community services and development led the ...

After a long career in the public service and and working as a education consultant, Fleur Johnston built the data analytics platform PeopleBench to help principals, in particular, "build an organisational strategy that could set the direction for a school ...

With the recent release of VCE results, parents across Victoria have been eagerly hoping to find out what their children have achieved at school during the past two years. Isn’t it strange, then, that VCE results provide so little insight ...

Despite the reform agenda made at the two-day Education Council meeting in Alice Springs, the Australian Education Union (AEU) has labelled it Groundhog Day. The AEU believes Australia’s education system is stuck in a “time loop of bad policy, no ...

After the release of December’s disappointing PISA results, student achievement, teacher quality, curriculum content and quality-assurance measures were destined to be on the table at the Alice Springs (Mparntwe) Education Declaration, which concluded on December 12. Here are some of ...

The Morrison government will prioritise Indigenous students’ education and outcomes after releasing the Alice Springs Declaration on Wednesday. This year's meeting was particularly timely, given Australia's sliding international ranking results and the lack of a silver bullet to address the ...

A commitment of $46 million to support early childhood education and care (ECEC) has been announced by Federal Minister for Education Dan Tehan ahead of this week’s Education Council meeting in Alice Springs. The aim of the funding is to ...

Once regarded as a highly professionalised and well-regarded vocation, a recent survey from job search engine Indeed has revealed a steep decline in individuals searching for a teaching position. The survey reveals that searches for teaching jobs across Australia have ...

Public schools of both low and high socioeconomic status (SES) are being privatised “from within” by parental contributions that fuel inequality, a new study has found. In their study entitled ‘Inequalities in the private funding of public schools: parent financial ...

Day one of the Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of People with a Disability centred on a disturbing tale of a girl with Down syndrome whose early school years involved being excluded, segregated and abused. The Commission, ...