If the incitement of debate on controversial topics was the goal of the Edu Tech conference taking place in Brisbane this week, then its organisers must have been thrilled with the presentation of MIT Media Lab founder Nicholas Negroponte. Addressing ...

A senior Harvard academic has issued educators at all levels of the education system as well as students and their parents a call to action to effect what he argues is a long overdue revolution in assessment and examination models. ...

More than 300 students in 176 schools across Australia are set to become principals for a day. The students will take on the leadership role on Wednesday to get a better understanding of what it means to lead the complex organisation ...

Digital tools or traditional, value counts. Leading educators have stressed the importance of maximising the academic and financial value of student screen time to ensure any digital learning modality schools adopt is not simply technology for technology’s sake. During a panel ...

A US educator has urged his Australian contemporaries to embrace the possibilities of tablet PC-based learning. He called it the simplest and most effective tech-based modality for transforming classroom experiences. Speaking at the EduTECH 2015 conference in Brisbane this week, ...

A bitter fight about federal education funding is either over $30 billion or absolutely nothing, depending on which political party you believe. State and territory Labor ministers say Australian schools will be left with a $30 billion black hole from ...

Federal Education Minister Christopher Pyne has said he remains resolute in his push to make mathematics and science compulsory subjects for years 11 and 12 despite apparently being rebuffed by his state and territory counterparts. Speaking after a recent meeting ...

Western countries trying to catch up with high-performing education systems in Asia will soon be left behind as they begin to shed their traditional models of learning, new research warns. A new report, Lessons that matter: What should we learn ...

The Australian Scholarship Group is disappointed by the uncertainty of future education funding as delivered in the latest Budget by the Abbott government. “Unfortunately, the budget was more silent than it should have been on a key topic like education. ...

The Australian Education Union is disappointed with the federal Budget. The AEU has said the spending plan abandons the promise to students with disability and confirms real cuts to schools by ending Gonski funding. AEU federal president Correna Haythorpe said the lack ...