The Federal Opposition's plan to shelve $448 million in aid to Indonesia may be dominating the news agenda today, but School Education Minister Peter Garrett has accused the Coalition of planning to ‘decimate Australian schools’. The coalition has said it ...

Teenage higher education students began embracing the Bradley expansion agenda a few years before the federal government adopted it in 2009, according to new figures from the National Centre for Vocational Education Research. The number of 15 to 19 year-old ...

While 2010 was a busy year in education, featuring the litany of policy announcements typical of a federal election campaign, 2011 is shaping up to be just as interesting – if not more so. Significant consultation and debate lies ahead ...

The NSW opposition has retreated from its promise to remove ethics classes from the state's public schools if elected. A spokesman for Opposition Leader Barry O'Farrell told AAP that reports yesterday of the opposition's backflip on the matter were correct, ...

Administrators have been appointed for Adelaide's only Jewish day school because of cash flow pressures and declining enrolments. However, administrator Peter Lanthois, from KordaMentha partners, said Massada College would continue to operate as normal with students due to start the ...

WELLINGTON: Labour is pledging to restore $400 million the Government has cut from early childhood education, and the party was warning parents they would face stiff fee rises when centres opened earlier this week. Party leader Phil Goff said a ...

The University of Melbourne has released an independent evaluation which it says shows that 90 per cent of its Master of Teaching graduates consider themselves ‘well prepared’ or ‘very well prepared’ when they begin. That is in contrast to the ...

Just as Queensland schools were returning to normality, following the devastating floods in the state, the arrival of Tropical Cyclone Yasi has meant further disruption. The Queensland Department of Education advised that more than 300 schools in Far North Queensland, ...

More parents are becoming involved in cyber-bullying, taking up disputes involving their children, a federal parliamentary committee has been told. Phil Lewis, an Adelaide high school principal and a representative for Catholic principals across South Australia, said cyber-bullying involving students ...

Children in state care are significantly more likely than their peers to struggle with literacy and numeracy, a new report has revealed. The Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) today released its pilot study into the educational outcomes of ...