The Prime Minister has defended his decision to promote Alan Tudge to the position of Education and Youth Minister last week as part of a cabinet reshuffle. Scott Morrison said Tudge, whose affair with a female staffer was aired on Four ...
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Fiery exchange over principal recruitment investigation
Queensland’s education minister has refused to reveal who the "mystery MP" embroiled in a corruption investigation alongside former deputy premier Jackie Trad was during a fiery hearing on Wednesday morning. Grace Grace was grilled about the Crime and Corruption Commission ...
More »Australian students break into the top 10 for maths and science, but significant inequalities still exist: TIMSS Report
Australian Year 8 students have cracked the top ten for maths and science globally, with the 2019 Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) showing they were outperformed by only six other countries. The results, which were released in ...
More »PETAA ‘committed to supporting teachers’ as NSW joins SA in implementing mandatory phonics checks
The Primary English Teaching Association Australia (PETAA) has committed to supporting teachers after New South Wales joined South Australia in introducing mandatory phonics screening checks in primary schools from 1 December 2020. The association has a long history of involvement ...
More »AEU calls for the government to ‘step up’ after releasing State of Our Schools survey
Public school principals are struggling to provide adequate funding for students with a disability and report having to siphon funds from other school budgets to make up for the shortfall, according to the Australian Education Union’s (AEU) 2020 State of ...
More »Self-harm study prompts calls for earlier intervention
Australian children are reporting self-harm as early as grade 6, a new study shows. Researchers assessed more than 1200 children living in Melbourne each year from age 8-9 years to 11-12 years. Twenty-eight of the 1059 students in the study ...
More »Force’s school letter tribute to fallen cop
School students across an entire Victorian country council will receive letters from their local police officers each week as part of a touching tribute to fallen Leading Senior Constable Dennis Cox. Cox, 47, tragically died earlier this month when he was ...
More »No link between birth type and final year test scores: study
Children born via caesarean section perform just as well at school as those who are vaginally birthed. Previously, research suggested C-section babies often had different microbes in their gut, which may influence their academic performance. But new research by academics in New ...
More »New research on period pain among young women shows significant impacts on attendance and performance
A new study of 4,202 young Australian women has found that more than a third of respondents have recently missed a whole day of school or university due to period paid, while roughly half said their period pain had affected ...
More »Cops to swarm unofficial schoolies week
Schoolies may be officially cancelled this year because of coronavirus but police are taking no chances with hundreds of officers set to swarm the Gold Coast this weekend. Queensland’s Year 12 students officially finish on Friday and even though there ...
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