Australia's Year 12 students face an uncertain future with national educators unable to agree on the make-up of end of year exams amid the COVID-19 crisis. The National Education Council involving education ministers for all states and territories said the ...

Pressure is mounting to cease normal school operations in NSW after the Australian Education Union (AEU) met with Prime Minister Scott Morrison yesterday, a day after the union met with Education Minister Dan Tehan. The AEU is yet to respond ...

Teachers need to be involved in classroom design to improve student learning outcomes, researchers say. Monash University researchers looked at more than 8000 peer-reviewed research articles and found school leaders were alienated from the classroom design process and teachers weren’t ...

Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s statement on Sunday night regarding school closures has caused major confusion among principals, teachers, education support staff and parents, according to Australian Education Union (AEU) federal president Correna Haythorpe and the NSW Teachers Federation. She has urged ...

NAPLAN tests have been cancelled this year due to COVID-19. Australia's education ministers met via video link today and later announced that the decision to scrap NAPLAN in 2020 was taken “to assist school leaders, teachers and support staff to ...

A West Australian maths teacher has been shortlisted for an international US$1m prize. Ashley Stewart, from Newton Moore Senior High School in Bunbury, was named in the top 50 of the Varkey Foundation Global Teacher Prize 2020, run in partnership ...

Schools in Australia will remain open for the foreseeable future amid the coronavirus crisis, with governments heeding advice that closing them would have dire consequences. But Prime Minister Scott Morrison said the nation's top medical officers and leaders are constantly ...

The My School website – which includes schools’ NAPLAN latest results from 2019, among other information – has been updated to reflect the annual test results in a more helpful light. The website change, which took effect yesterday, follows last ...

One of Australia’s leading audio companies has launched a program to provide free podcasting equipment to NSW schools to help them manage remote learning challenges caused by COVID-19 coronavirus. RØDE Microphones is making up to $2m worth of its podcasting ...

Non-government schools don't bring about the savings to the taxpayer that they're purported to. That’s the call from a group of Australian researchers following their analysis of My School website data. The team from the Universities of Sydney, Wollongong and ...