Consistent quality of care in the early learning sector is the focus of a new national education framework researchers are developing. Flinders University researchers hope to create a model for all professionals working with children aged from birth to 5 years. This comes after ...

Former Australian Federal Police cybercrime expert Alastair MacGibbon has officially stepped into his new role as children’s e-safety commissioner. The Office of the Children’s e-Safety Commissioner was created as a result government surveys that revealed up to 1 in 5 Australian ...

Gifted and talented school kids have taken time out of their holidays to attend university. The Holiday Enrichment Workshop Series hosted by the University of Southern Queensland in partnership with BRAINways Education, ran over two days (June 29-30), consisting of ...

In a quest to boost Tasmania’s education outcomes and lift participation rates, the University of Tasmania today launched the Children’s University Tasmania. The project was launched today with education and training minister Jeremy Rockliff at the Moonah Arts Centre, Hobart, ...

Central Queensland University and Fitzroy Basin Association are helping teachers find science education paradise in Gladstone for Science Week. Teachers from around Queensland will converge on CQUniversity Gladstone in August, for a hands-on weekend to help them bring science to ...

The government needs to give greater priority to funding schools enrolling students most at risk of leaving school and to develop sustainable funding policies for the future. In a new report – Australian Education Review – Lyndsay Connors and Jim ...

All teacher education students will be required to pass standardised literacy and numeracy tests in order to qualify for graduation under a new plan to be phased in via a trial starting this year. The test, developed by the Australian ...

Online education resource, LiteracyPlanet, has officially launched LiteracyPlanet WordMania 2015 and is calling on primary school children around Australia to exercise their literacy skills and help reach the goal of 10 million minutes of literacy development. LiteracyPlanet Word Mania 2015 ...

A Commonwealth Government program has delivered a $54 million investment return for some of the state’s most disadvantaged communities, a KPMG audit released today has found. Delivered via a partnership of five major universities (University of Western Sydney, University of ...

Teaching young kids computer science and coding is a good idea, argues a Charles Sturt University (CSU) expert, who says primary-aged children take to digital technology at a relatively fast rate. Jason Howarth, course director at the CSU school of ...