The Tasmanian government has abandoned its controversial post Year 10 education reforms, coming to a compromise with the Greens. The Tasmania Tomorrow reforms were a crucial issue at the last election, which saw Labor win government in minority, relying upon ...

The recently released Queensland and NSW state budgets both contained big education spending. Queensland’s education budget included a big boost to early childhood services. The state pledged $9.5 billion for education in this year's budget, which will fund 40 kindergartens ...

The federal government is not funding projects being built under the Building the Education Revolution at schools facing closure, education minister Julia Gillard has said. More than a dozen schools which are the subject of consultation over possible closure next ...

As parents rallied outside Parliament House in Canberra yesterday to protest alleged waste and mismanagement in the government’s Building the Education Revolution (BER) program, the pressure on education minister Julia Gillard to fix problems with the scheme intensified. The $14.1 ...

Australian researchers are about to begin a landmark study to determine how rejection affects children at one of the most sensitive times in their lives. Researchers have long understood the destructive power of rejection on human beings, who are driven ...

Opposition Leader Tony Abbott has made it clear – high school students counting on a computer from the federal government won't get it if he wins power. Labor's $2.1 billion National Secondary School Computer Fund aims to give all children ...

New figures showing Queensland students' graduation results by school will lead to better standards, not unhelpful league tables, the state’s education minister has said. The Queensland government on Tuesday released information about how 2009's Year 12 students performed. Education Minister ...

Children living in disadvantage are unaware of the harsh realities awaiting them, with a new poll showing all students share the same ambitions and dreams. A thousand primary school students aged five to seven, from low and high socio-economic communities, ...

Almost 200 trade training centres would be at risk if Opposition Leader Tony Abbott wins the election, according to education minister Julia Gillard. The coalition has identified the centres as a potential $968 million budget saving, should it get back ...

The government says it is working to lift the quality of teachers in schools, despite a report that gave Australia low marks for teacher development. A report from the Grattan Institute, ‘What Teachers Want: Better Teacher Management’ placed Australia 19 ...