A state government proposal to give more money to disadvantaged schools will instead remove targeted assistance and leave thousands of students unable to participate in the opportunities school has to offer, the Victorian Council of Social Service warned. “While the new ...

The Victorian Government has teamed up with Facebook to launch a campaign to tackle cyber-bullying within school communities. Premier Denis Napthine and education minister Martin Dixon joined students at Albert Park College to unveil the latest phase of the $4 million Bully ...

The health of local teddy bears was the focus of a program at University of Tasmania’s Brighton Campus last week. The day involved the university’s medical students acting as Teddy Doctors, who guided kindergarteners and their bears through scenarios including ...

Pre-service staff in art education use Twitter to stay connected and share knowledge worldwide. By Antonia Maiolo Students at La Trobe University are taking to Twitter to learn skills that will help make them better teachers. Dr Narelle Lemon, a ...

Student bodies show big improvement in performance over a year of increased activities. By Antonia Maiolo Hundreds of schoolchildren in NSW have gained fitness benefits from a year-long physical activity and movement skills intervention program. Participants in the initial SCORES ...

Starting school for little ones may be smoother than ever thanks to a NSW government program. NSW Nationals MP Katrina Hodgkinson said the move to big school in the local area should be smoother for next year’s kindergarten children with a ...

In 2015, the Northern Territory will join Western Australia and Queensland in introducing the Independent Public Schools initiative to increase local decision-making in government schools. The Australian Government plans to invest $1.61 million to help government schools in the Northern ...

The Tasmanian opposition has criticised a state government scheme to pay teachers assistants to perform medical procedures on students. Under the policy, teacher assistants will be paid an extra $11.80 a week to perform high-level medical procedures on students including; catheterisation, ...

A leading education academic has called for a rethink of primary schooling in Australia, saying there’s a need to introduce a degree of specialisation and avoid fads and fashions that undermine teaching practices. In a speech at the recent Australian ...

About 75,000 NSW school teachers will soon have to be accredited under new national standards, including requirements to undertake ongoing professional development. The NSW education minister, Adrian Piccoli, said the government wanted all teachers to be accredited by the end of ...