The federal government has succeeded in fast-tracking legislation that will see more than one million families with school children receive a cash bonus next month. Prime Minister Julia Gillard and Treasurer Wayne Swan last week talked up the Schoolkids Bonus, ...

A stop work meeting by NSW teachers planned for tomorrow morning will go ahead, the teachers federation says. The federation said its executive met yesterday morning after the NSW Industrial Relations Commission (IRC) ordered the union to consider rescheduling its strike action until after school. ...

Prime Minister Julia Gillard says the Victorian government is walking away from investment in education with cutbacks to the state's TAFE sector. Gillard was addressing a public forum at a community cabinet meeting in Berwick, in the Victorian marginal seat of La Trobe. Gillard ...

Schools have six weeks left to lodge their applications for this year’s NAB Schools First awards program. A total of $3.05 million for 130 schools is on offer with up to $200,000 available for the national winner. NAB Schools First ...

Andrew Barr, national chair of the Association of Heads of Independent Schools of Australia, welcomed the $54 million science and maths package. “AHISA has advocated for governments to directly support innovation in classroom practice,’ said Barr, who is also principal ...

Payments under the proposed Reward for School Improvement program are to be reduced from $75,000 to $50,000 for primary schools and from $100,000 to $75,000 for secondary schools, the budget papers show. This provides a saving of $37.5 million over ...

Researchers of a longitudinal study looking at the effectiveness of teacher training are calling for invited participants to respond to survey. The deadline has been extended to Monday, May 14 for the Deakin University-led project titled Studying the Effectiveness of ...

Car crashes and suicides are the top two causes of death for young Australians, while road accidents are the main causes of adolescent deaths worldwide, researchers say. An international study of adolescent health, published in the British journal The Lancet, ...

Australia's education ministers have agreed to measures designed to make non-government schools more transparent about how they spend the government funding they receive. Federal School Education Minister Peter Garrett on Friday welcomed the agreement by ministers’ meeting in Perth to ...

People who had an inspirational teacher at school are more likely to earn a high salary later in life, according to a new study. Of nearly 2000 people surveyed in a Commonwealth Bank Foundation study, nearly 80 per cent of ...