Education dominated the news this week with the government making several pre-budget announcements, while refusing to confirm other rumours, such as plans to halve the discount which university students get for paying their fees upfront. More on that here: (ER, ...

Nations such as Australia that failed to learn the lessons of the disastrous No Child Left Behind reforms are set to repeat the same mistakes, warned renowned US author and Stanford University professor, Linda Darling-Hammond. The widely panned legislation acutely ...

Half a million school students will be forgotten by Labor's plan to change the national funding system, the federal opposition has claimed. Schools Education Minister Peter Garrett has issued his strongest indication yet that the government plans to proceed with ...

At a time when concerns persist over decreasing uptake of science and maths at school, a university’s mobile ‘science van’ has celebrated 10 years of providing free, hands-on lessons to students. The Queensland University of Technology Extreme Science Van has ...

Former Australian High Court judge, Michael Kirby, will argue for the traditional place of secularism in Australian public schools when he delivers the Bob Meyenn Lecture tonight at Charles Sturt University. Speaking on the topic of ‘Public education and the ...

An estimated 50,000 additional undergraduate students enrolled at Australian universities in the last two years, new figures released by government show. Minister for Tertiary Education, Senator Chris Evans, said the data showed more students than ever before had the opportunity ...

About one in eight Australian children speaks Arabic at home, a study shows. New data has been released by the federal Department of Education providing a snapshot into the early development of children. It found Arabic to be the most ...

The education of Australia's future teachers will be consistent across the board following the adoption of new standards, the federal government says. The country's education ministers met in Melbourne last Friday to green light the system for accreditation of pre-service ...

Changing the way teachers are appraised could boost Australia's economy by up to $240 billion by 2050, a think tank says. The Grattan Institute argues that a proper system of appraisal, carried out by individual schools rather than bureaucracies, could ...

Students' literacy and numeracy levels appear to be improving across the country, in part due to a $540 million national investment. But an independent review of the Numeracy National Partnership has questioned the transparency of reporting under the joint government ...