The proposed schooling resource standard is nothing less than revolutionary. Ignoring the ideological battles of the past 30 years, the Gonski panel has set a goal of finding a single, base amount to be applied to all students regardless of ...

Independent Public Schools (IPS) in Western Australia have cut the number of education assistants and increased overall staff on fixed term contracts, staffing data has revealed. In September 2011, 47 per cent of teachers in the IPS system were employed ...

Dorothy Hoddinott isn’t sure how many refugee students she has helped obtain their education in Australia, but she admits it’s in the hundreds. For the last decade, the Trust founded by Hoddinott has been providing assistance to refugee students to ...

A national program which has proven to be effective in boosting educational outcomes for indigenous youth through extra-curricular activities faces an uncertain future, with government refusing to confirm its ongoing funding. An independent evaluation by the Australian Council for Educational ...

A Harvard University-backed trial at two NSW public schools is investigating whether elements of coaching and positive psychology can be combined to provide social and emotional support to students. While the results are still being analysed, the researchers behind the ...

A 60-hour working week is the norm for a quarter of Australian principals and almost half spend 25 hours a week in the office during school holidays. On top of this heavy workload, some 46 per cent of principals volunteer ...

It’s clear that the Australian school education landscape is in for further profound change in 2012. Enhanced autonomy for 1000 principals under a national trial; the release of the Gonski panel’s review into school funding and the government’s subsequent response; ...

Teachers and principals are broadly positive of academically accelerating gifted and talented children, but are often reluctant to do so for fear it could damage the child’s social and emotional development. Yet this is contrary to the reality that academically ...

A new stakeholder group to provide advice to government on how to boost Asia literacy in schools is to be convened shortly, Minister for School Education Peter Garrett has confirmed. The group will consist of educators, academics, teachers, the business ...

A concerted effort to extend and challenge top performing students could start this year in the wake of the latest national testing results, comments by the government suggest. While the NAPLAN 2011 results showed the difficulties faced by indigenous and ...