Most school principals and other school leaders sent to the bush are inexperienced and almost half admit to being ill-prepared for their roles, a survey has found. Releasing details on Tuesday, John Halsey, a professor of rural education at Adelaide's ...

The federal government's computers in schools program has had a generally positive review by the Commonwealth Auditor-General. Labor's $2.2 billion National Secondary Schools Computer Fund aims to give all students in Years 9 to 12 access to a computer by ...

Even though Cyclone Carlos has been downgraded to a tropical low, after battering Darwin with gale force winds and heavy rains last night, schools remain closed today. ABC Online reported that Police Commissioner John McRoberts said while the system was ...

Educators have welcomed the review of disabled students’ education entitlements, announced by the government on Tuesday. Independent Education Union of Australia (IEUA) federal secretary Chris Watt said the needs of disabled students were not being met and schools were struggling ...

The review of the National School Chaplaincy Program is well and truly underway with the government releasing the discussion paper last Friday. The paper seeks the community’s views about how the program may be targeted and expanded, including how the ...

Defence has made deep cuts to its gap-year program, suspending the RAAF intake and more than halving the number of navy entrants this year. Only the army intake remains unchanged at 317. The changes reflected Defence's strong improvement in both ...

Prime Minister Julia Gillard wants indigenous people to take greater responsibility for improving their own lives, after admitting the task was proving difficult for government. Gillard yesterday delivered Labor's third report card on actions taken to improve indigenous health, employment ...

The development of the new national teacher standards is an historic move toward making every school a great school, because it is known that outside of the home, teachers have the greatest impact on the development of young Australians. That’s ...

The release of the National Professional Standards for Teachers creates the platform for a national system of accrediting teacher education courses, initial and full teacher registration, and voluntary certification at the higher levels supported by ongoing professional learning. That’s according ...

The largest survey of Australian secondary students in 25 years has revealed a "chronic disease time bomb", with weight problems, lax exercise habits and poor diets as the norm. The survey of 12,000 teenagers across almost 240 schools found one ...