The Victorian Government is to undertake the most comprehensive review to date of its Program for Students with Disabilities (PSD). The aim is better targeting of funding and services. The Victorian education minister, James Merlino, announced the review this week. It will include resources for children ...

The team behind a new research centre the University of Melbourne launched last week has pledged to provide a cohesive, evidence-based approach to the evaluation of teacher training. The launch of the Teacher Education Effectiveness Research Hub – to be ...

‘I reckon’ as a basis for teachers making decisions about teaching and learning has given way to the use of sophisticated research into best practice in education. Hale School in Western Australia has experienced this change in its focus on ...

The government needs to give greater priority to funding schools enrolling students most at risk of leaving school and to develop sustainable funding policies for the future. In a new report – Australian Education Review – Lyndsay Connors and Jim ...

All teacher education students will be required to pass standardised literacy and numeracy tests in order to qualify for graduation under a new plan to be phased in via a trial starting this year. The test, developed by the Australian ...

Segregation by wealth is a threat to academic performance; but a focus on collaboration, within the school and with the community, can help overcome it. By Tom Bentley A commitment to collaboration can make all the difference for a school ...

Schools must innovate and transform to match the needs of 21st-century learners, Dr Heidi Hayes Jacobs, president of Curriculum Designers Inc. argues. Hayes Jacobs, an internationally recognised expert in curriculum mapping, told a masterclass audience at the recent EduTECH conference ...

Officials hope there will be an explosion of students learning classical Greek once there's a curriculum for primary and high schools. The curriculum authority is now working on how students could learn Hindi, Turkish, Auslan (sign language), classical Greek and ...

If the incitement of debate on controversial topics was the goal of the Edu Tech conference taking place in Brisbane this week, then its organisers must have been thrilled with the presentation of MIT Media Lab founder Nicholas Negroponte. Addressing ...

A bitter fight about federal education funding is either over $30 billion or absolutely nothing, depending on which political party you believe. State and territory Labor ministers say Australian schools will be left with a $30 billion black hole from ...