AIME Mentoring today revealed to Education Review that it has raised just under $90,000 through its first year of partnering with Triple J's Hottest 100 countdown. The Australian Indigenous Mentoring Experience works with Indigenous high school students to provide them ...

United States government research has raised concerns that computer writing tests could disadvantage students from low socioeconomic backgrounds. A study published in December by the US Department of Education’s National Centre for Education Statistics, found conducting computer-based persuasive writing tests “appeared to widen ...

If the Turnbull Government is serious about innovation, it must match federal Labor’s commitment to Gonski, the Australian Education Union has said. Labor has announced its pledge to inject $4.5 billion into schools to fully fund the final two years of ...

University of Melbourne is aiming to get Indigenous school children on the track to higher education – literally. This year's Raising the Bar program, a partnership with Athletics Australia, concludes today. It has involved Indigenous students converging on UniMelb for athletics coaching, an ...

A vice-chancellor has downplayed the relevance of the ATAR as a measure of potential student success – especially when it comes to teaching degrees. Professor Peter Dawkins, of Victoria University, argued that ATARs are often meaningless when measuring a student’s potential in university. ...

Debate following the Senate inquiry into children with disabilities in schools must not descend into a fight about funds, the speech pathologists’ peak body has said. Speech Pathology Australia acknowledged that while funding is important for disability education, throwing money ...

A stigma against autism is “reasonably common” throughout Australian schools, an expert has argued. A recent Senate inquiry found parents of kids with autism are actively discouraged by some schools from enrolling their child. This occurs across the public, independent and ...

Poor literacy and numeracy skills are plaguing Australian employers to the point where it is affecting businesses, a report has revealed. International research has found nearly half of Australians, 44 per cent, have literacy skills below a level considered to ...

The government can pay for Gonski if it reduces tax concessions for the wealthy and clamps down on corporate tax dodgers, a public school advocate has argued. Trevor Cobbold, national convenor of Save Our Schools and former Productivity Commission economist, ...

A teenage boy facing terrorism charges in Sydney will live under effective house arrest after he was granted bail. The 15-year-old Georges Hall Public School student was allegedly one of five people involved in a terror plot to target government buildings, ...