Over the last decade Australia has witnessed one of the largest increases in starting salaries for graduate teachers compared with its international colleagues. However, Australia’s flat salary scale could compromise its ability to retain its teaching workforce in the long ...

The evidence used to justify the NT government’s dismantling of bilingual education in remote schools is based on “incomplete, selective and biased data” and must be reviewed immediately, a bilingual education expert has said. Based on his analysis of My ...

Racial tensions in the community are spilling over into schools with new research showing 80 per cent of migrant students report experiencing racism. Intercultural and racial tensions are generating unsettling levels of verbal and physical abuse in Australian high schools, ...

NAPLAN has missed the point and focused on the wrong end of analysis; My School is a big yawn and has not greatly influenced what happens in schools and the digital education revolution is having virtually no effect. You would ...

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 ...