The draft national professional standards for teachers have been released for consultation and, much like the national curriculum, have the profession talking. The standards describe what is required of teachers at four levels of professional expertise – graduate, proficient, highly ...

The government’s P21 program looks set to achieve its intended outcomes, with economic indicators showing it helped reverse the decline in non-residential construction caused by the global financial crisis. However, the recently released report of the Auditor-General into the P21 ...

Leading science educators have defended the teaching of climate change against charges of classroom indoctrination – describing it as a matter of scientific literacy However, disagreement continues over teaching methods, with many arguing for its explicit and mandated place in ...

Schools may be unwittingly breaching federal legislation by failing to effectively deal with both parents following a separation or divorce. New research has found that despite a federal law stating both parents should have a role in their child’s education, ...

A leading ethicist has hit back at criticism of the NSW trial into the teaching of ethics, describing the attack led by Anglican Archbishop Peter Jensen as “false and distorted”. In an open letter published in Southern Cross magazine, Jensen ...

It’s been billed as one of the most important chapters in the history of schools funding in Australia. The government’s promised review into the funding of schools is gathering steam with the announcement that chancellor of the University of NSW, ...

It’s often said that university days are the best of your life. Now new research appears to corroborate, showing graduates are happiest in school and university and become less happy following graduation. School and university, quite literally, is as good ...

They’re known as the baby bonus generation or Generation Z and they will be the most formally educated generation in history. And recently Sydney University brought 600 Year 3 students onto its campus to give them their first taste of ...

Jimmy needs to try harder. Jimmy must make more effort. Jimmy needs to apply himself more. New research has found that attributions of laziness, reflected in teacher comments such as these, could be masking cognitive, learning, attentional or emotional problems ...

The total number of students undertaking a VET in Schools program increased by 25 per cent in 2008. School-based apprentices and trainees increased by 71 per cent while the number of students enrolled in other VET in Schools programs increased ...