The NSW government has set a target to increase the percentage of 25 to 34 year olds in that state who hold a bachelor degree to 44 per cent by 2025, higher than the federal government’s target of 40 per ...

A new cross sector education leadership institute in Queensland is believed to be the first of its kind in Australia. The recently launched Queensland Education Leadership Institute (QELI) has been established by the state’s public, Catholic and independent sectors to ...

Planning for quality learning in maths must take culture, language, attendance and core mathematical understanding into consideration to help indigenous learners succeed. Griffith University Professor of Education, Robyn Jorgensen, told the recent ACER research conference that indigenous students may have ...

Children with special health care needs in early childhood may be more prone to social and learning difficulties in their first years of school, new research has found. Children with chronic physical, developmental, behavioural or emotional conditions requiring health and ...

Skyrocketing numbers of disadvantaged and disaffected boys are being segregated into NSW behaviour schools placing them at greater risk of failure and further social exclusion. Macquarie University’s Centre for Research on Social Exclusion found there had been no systematic evaluation ...

The return of Labor to government – albeit a minority government – is a positive development for Australian education if for no other reason than the long awaited review into schools funding will go ahead. That’s the view of many ...

Australia needs to do more to attract and retain its immigrant teachers, as new research has found a third were dissatisfied with their experience of migrating to Australia. Further, 40 per cent had experienced significant periods of unemployment since their ...

The national accreditation of pre-service teacher education programs will raise the quality of teachers, improve teacher mobility and boost Australia’s international reputation for teacher training. Initial responses to the consultation paper for the new national system, recently released by the ...

It’s back to the future for the island state. The Tasmania Tomorrow reforms have unravelled, with two of the three post-Year 10 educational authorities to be brought back under the ambit of the state education department. The controversial reforms – ...

Primary school principals have welcomed the BER taskforce’s interim report, saying it has vindicated the positive view they took of the program all along. The report by taskforce chief, former investment banker Brad Orgill, said just 254 schools, or 2.7 ...