A strong message for the Federal Government from the Principals Australia survey is that principals do not like the idea of doling out rewards to teachers based on a quota system. Asked if they support the proposed quota, in which ...

When the 1600 school leaders who undertook the Principals Australia survey were asked to score their proficiency across a range of benchmarks, rural and remote practice ranked third from the bottom. Just 14 per cent rated themselves as highly proficient ...

When Daryl Hanly was new to the role of principal he once congratulated a much more senior colleague on his retirement. "It was the 1970s and the retirement age was 55 and I said to him 'you must be so ...

NSW schools have been promised 900 new teachers and significant maintenance funding in the 2011-12 state budget. A total of $915 million is allocated to non-government schools, with $9.9 billion to be spent on public schools. A further $2.2 billion ...

NSW teachers joined police, firefighters and nurses to protest against cuts to the public service earlier today. Their action defied yesterday’s eleventh-hour ruling from NSW Industrial Relations Commission (IRC) judge Frances Backman. Union leaders today said more than 30,000 workers ...

From January next year schools will be able to use federal government funds to employ either a school chaplain or a secular student welfare worker under an overhaul of the National School Chaplains Program. All new chaplains or student welfare ...

After infancy, there are more boys than girls in the low range of performance on almost all the language and literacy evaluations at all ages, new research shows. Further, parents of boys are more likely to be concerned about their ...

Australian volunteer Brendan Rigby is five weeks into a 12-month assignment in the sub-Saharan African nation of Ghana. He is working on a project that aims to boost school attendance and increase the overall level of education quality. Rigby (27) ...

Prime Minister Julia Gillard and New Zealand PM John Key announced the additional funding at the Pacific Islands Forum in Auckland yesterday, the eve of International Literacy Day. The two countries are aiming to ensure half a million more children ...

A $24 million program the Victorian government says will create specialist primary school science and maths teachers won't make the grade, the teachers union has claimed. Schools are being invited to apply for teachers to take the first 100 places ...