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 ...

There are now more pathways for school leavers to get a degree with the federal government mandating its desire to increase the number of undergraduate students by 2020. The changes mean that those with lower ATAR scores and people with ...

ANALYSIS Having promised that no school would be worse off under the Gonski review’s proposed funding model, the federal government neutralised the greatest political risk: the spectre of an elite school hit list. That now leaves it dealing with the second ...

Jane Baker admits she used to think that teenagers played in garage bands purely for fun and the opportunity to “muck around with their mates”. Now she views garage bands as highly organised, goal orientated groups which place a high ...

With Australian waistlines expanding, keeping young people active remains an ongoing challenge. Numerous studies, here and overseas, show that as children move through adolescence, many drop out of physical activity, organised sport and recreation. While this is the case across ...

The number of students doing Vocational Education and Training (VET) in Schools programs has steadily increased in recent years from 171,700 in 2006 to 233,800 in 2010, according to National Centre for Vocational Education Research statistics published in December 2011. In ...

The thrust of the Gonski review’s formula for funding disadvantaged students, including those with a disability, is fairly straightforward. Take the schooling resource standard, a base amount, and add to it a loading, an additional amount, to reflect the cost ...

David Gonski and Denise Bradley need to talk. That might be the best way to sum up comments by university educators when asked for their thoughts on Gonski’s landmark Review of Funding for Schooling. At the heart of the funding ...

GONSKI – ANALYSIS Implementation Having promised that no school would be worse off under the Gonski review’s proposed funding model, the federal government neutralised the greatest political risk: the spectre of an elite school hit list.  That now leaves it ...

It took less than three hours after the release of the Gonski report for the first negative headlines to appear, screaming that the report called for means testing for private schools. The trigger was the ambiguous wording of Recommendation 2: ...