Children from the age of 11 or 12 will be taught to “recognise sexual feelings” under a new national physical education curriculum.

More than 100 year 5 students in Brisbane have been given the opportunity to connect with indigenous history and culture as part of the sixth annual Indigenous Education Symposium at the University of the Sunshine Coast.

Students from the Faculty of Education will celebrate Indigenous Literacy day on Thursday, September 6 and United Nations Literacy Day, which is held annually on September 8. Dr Lisa Kervin, a senior lecturer in language and literacy, has set a ...

Helping the teachers to adapt to the new gear is perhaps the biggest challenge that our schools face today. But Dr Jenny Lane, a senior lecturer at Edith Cowan University, has been offering free seminars to teachers on how to ...

Participants at a conference showcasing best practice in indigenous education will walk away with their own plans for change, says the man behind the event. Tying in with the theme From Rhetoric to Reality, the Stronger Smarter summit 2012 in ...

Minister Garrett was responding on Tuesday to plans by the NSW government to lift professional standards and make it easier to fire underperforming teachers. He said he didn't think the teaching profession needed to be more selective. "It is not necessarily a fact ...

NSW Education Minister Adrian Piccoli launched a discussion paper on Tuesday - titled Great Teaching, Inspired Learning - which aims to "increase the professionalism of the profession". Piccoli said ATAR entry scores for would-be teachers were often too low. "We graduate 5500 teacher graduates and employ between ...

The Queensland Teachers Union (QTU) organised the Tuesday afternoon rally to protest at state government plans to remove their conditions in return for a pay rise. QTU president Kevin Bates says the government wants to make the conditions part of its own ...

Opposition education spokesman Christopher Pyne said last week if Labor did anything to undermine non-government school funding "we will dismantle (it)". Mr Pyne wants the government to extend the existing school funding model for two years. It's due to expire at the end of 2013. School education parliamentary ...

The NSW Government says a new resourcing model for public schools will make funding fairer. But Labor and the Greens argue that the reform is just a different way of dividing up a shrinking pool of school funding. The new Resource ...