If the Turnbull Government is serious about innovation, it must match federal Labor’s commitment to Gonski, the Australian Education Union has said. Labor has announced its pledge to inject $4.5 billion into schools to fully fund the final two years of ...
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UniMelb helps link sport and education
University of Melbourne is aiming to get Indigenous school children on the track to higher education – literally. This year's Raising the Bar program, a partnership with Athletics Australia, concludes today. It has involved Indigenous students converging on UniMelb for athletics coaching, an ...
More »VU’s Dawkins challenges ATAR’s relevance
A vice-chancellor has downplayed the relevance of the ATAR as a measure of potential student success – especially when it comes to teaching degrees. Professor Peter Dawkins, of Victoria University, argued that ATARs are often meaningless when measuring a student’s potential in university. ...
More »Disability debate must go beyond money: speech pathologists
Debate following the Senate inquiry into children with disabilities in schools must not descend into a fight about funds, the speech pathologists’ peak body has said. Speech Pathology Australia acknowledged that while funding is important for disability education, throwing money ...
More »Autism stigma blamed on poor training, funding
A stigma against autism is “reasonably common” throughout Australian schools, an expert has argued. A recent Senate inquiry found parents of kids with autism are actively discouraged by some schools from enrolling their child. This occurs across the public, independent and ...
More »Clamp down on tax dodgers to pay for Gonski: Cobbold
The government can pay for Gonski if it reduces tax concessions for the wealthy and clamps down on corporate tax dodgers, a public school advocate has argued. Trevor Cobbold, national convenor of Save Our Schools and former Productivity Commission economist, ...
More »School preparation: make them want to go
Social wellbeing is more important than academic readiness when preparing kids for their first day of school, an expert has said. Professor Bob Perry, a Charles Sturt University expert on transitions to school, said parents should use the weeks before the ...
More »Indigenous students get a taste of uni life at USYD
The University of Sydney is showing Aboriginal schoolchildren what it has to offer. Federal Education Department data reveals Indigenous enrolments at country universities far outweighs that at city counterparts, despite the fact that over the past two years, the Universities Admission Centre has recorded ...
More »For schoolgirls, engineering pipeline must start early
Girl power can help solve Australia’s chronic shortage of engineers, and work on the career pipeline should begin in school, experts have expressed. Australia annually imports 12,000 engineers to fill job gaps. One quarter of these come on temporary work ...
More »Maths contractor touts for-profit model
For-profit is the best model for educational enterprises to thrive, survive and teach – the co-founder of Maths Pathway has said. Maths Pathway, established by former teachers Richard Wilson and Justin Matthys, contracts with schools to develop mathematics learning models. It has delivered models ...
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