Students in vocational education could get HECS-style loans for their courses under a proposal the federal government will put to its state and territory counterparts. Industry Minister Greg Combet says the program will be carefully targeted at certain areas to ...

Some Year 1 and 2 students starting school have been put straight onto iPads, under a new West Australian government program. Premier Colin Barnett and Education Minister Liz Constable yesterday announced the government's Early Childhood iPad Initiative, which will provide ...

NSW Premier Barry O'Farrell has ordered an investigation into this week’s travel debacle that affected hundreds of disabled students in NSW. The state opposition has called for the dismissal of Education Minister Adrian Piccoli after the bungle that left 740 ...

Education Review published an article in its October issue discussing the possibility of students formally rating their teachers. ER reported it was one of the recommendations made by the Nous Group in their report on schooling challenges and opportunities commissioned ...

The great education machine of Australian schools is grinding into action again for another year. In about 9500 schools, 184,000 teachers will stand between 3.5 million students and their futures. The social contract is clear. Students are required to attend ...

Shifting the rhetoric of a well intentioned resolution for improvement into action that is only practical and sustainable is a challenge. Since the year ticked over and The Biggest Loser returned to the small screen, my morning run along the ...

Reaction has been mixed to the announcement that a discount on HECS fees for maths and science subjects will go, as outlined in the federal government’s mid-year economic and fiscal outlook. Maths, statistics and science units will attract Band 2 ...

Programs promoting healthy food and exercise help prevent children from becoming overweight or obese, Australian researchers have found. A major review of 55 international studies of school-based and other structured programs encouraging healthy eating, exercise and positive body image found ...

The finding has prompted calls for doctors to check new fathers for signs of depression, similar to how mothers are routinely screened for postnatal depression. The Australian researchers found the effects of paternal depression in the first year of a ...

In what has been hailed as a significant investment in science and science education, Nobel Laureate Professor Brian Schmidt has donated $100,000 of his Nobel Prize money to the Primary Connections program. The Australian Academy of Science, which developed the ...