Labor ministers and their advisers should have known a grants program to give money to some childcare workers was going to run out quickly, according to an audit. The audit of the Early Years Quality Fund is damning of the ...

The Teacher Education Ministerial Advisory Group review is a missed opportunity for the government to set a strong framework for changes to teacher education, AEU federal president Correna Haythorpe said. Haythorpe said the priorities for the review should have been ...

There is endless discussion over university entry scores and their significance. In particular, there are often quite heated arguments in the media over perceived lowering of standards resulting from the enrolment of students with low ATARs. Such is the case ...

NSW premier Mike Baird is promising to spend a billion dollars to give the state's schools a facelift if voters support his controversial plan to partially privatise the state's electricity assets. Baird is taking his poles and wires plan to the ...

A highly anticipated report from a government advisory group has called for sweeping changes to the way teachers are trained, including an overhaul of the way universities select students for teaching courses. The report, Action Now: Classroom Ready Teachers, was ...

Victorian parents pay more than the rest of the country for their kids' public schools, an auditor-general's report shows. The state government also spent less than the national average per student – 14.4 per cent less for primary students and 11.4 ...

Schools in NSW will get an extra $22.7 million of Commonwealth cash this year in a deal the federal education minister, Christopher Pyne, has said will increase their autonomy. But the agreement won't lead to independent public schools. The NSW education minister, ...

New South Wales’ $14 million funding commitment to non-native English speakers in public schools is the best the state has seen in years, literacy expert Misty Adoniou said. Adoniou, senior lecturer of Language, Literacy and TESL at the University of ...

Early childhood education, teacher training and demonstrating the quality of government schools should be primary concerns for the year. By Field Rickards My colleague professor Linda Darling-Hammond, from Stanford University, likes to tell a story – albeit mock-grudgingly, as it ...

Schools and universities need to work together to help break down stereotypes in the portrayal of engineers and encourage more girls to enter the profession, a leading expert argues. Alex Bannigan, the manager of women in engineering at the University ...