For Brendan Nicholson and Pi Lee, the sky’s the limit. The two NSW students have been given a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity – a trip to the International Space and Rocket Center in Alabama, USA. They will be accompanying Tyril Houghton, a ...

It began with a rusty lawnmower and 15 students, but now Ben Princehorn’s program to encourage young people to volunteer by performing backyard makeovers for disadvantaged families boasts a waiting list of students keen to help. Princehorn, a legal studies ...

Eight days in August and eight in September. Six in October and five in November. That’s all the time that the House of Representatives has scheduled to sit in the second half of 2012. While only one or two days ...

A group of year 10 and 11 students at a school south-east of Melbourne is the first in the country to study a Certificate III in Carbon Management. Taking on the role of carbon manager, the students at St Peter’s ...

The Australian Education Union has written to Tertiary Education and Skills Minister Chris Evans, along with the premiers and chief ministers of every state and territory, asking them to clarify their positions on aspects of the National Partnership on Skills ...

School education looks set to feature strongly in the forthcoming white paper Australia in the Asian Century to be handed to the federal government in the next few months, submissions indicate. More than half of the 250 submissions to the ...

Development snapshot of kindergarteners The federal government is collecting data on how young Australian children fare in key development areas for the second time in three years. More than 750 government and non-government schools across the nation will take part ...

As Australia moves towards a system of school autonomy, the role of the education business manager will become more professionalised, visible and valued within the education system. This manager will become increasingly central given the devolution of power and responsibility ...

Professor Barbara Comber tells a story about a school in South Australia. Waterwell Primary* serves a low socio-economic, linguistically and culturally diverse community in suburban Adelaide. Some 60 per cent of its children are on a school card (an indicator ...

There has been mixed reaction among teachers, parents and education experts to the new national plan for assessing and improving teachers’ performance. Under the model, developed by the Australian Institute for Teaching and School Leadership (AITSL) for the federal government, teachers ...