Central Queensland University and Fitzroy Basin Association are helping teachers find science education paradise in Gladstone for Science Week. Teachers from around Queensland will converge on CQUniversity Gladstone in August, for a hands-on weekend to help them bring science to ...

Monash University has partnered with the Melbourne Football Club to deliver the club’s Read Like a Demon literacy program. The program is aimed at inspiring a love of reading and to improve literacy among primary school students. It offers students ...

The government needs to give greater priority to funding schools enrolling students most at risk of leaving school and to develop sustainable funding policies for the future. In a new report – Australian Education Review – Lyndsay Connors and Jim ...

With technology set to play an increased role in the classrooms of tomorrow, the Queensland Education Leadership Institute (QELi) and Optus have joined forces to help schools accelerate their plans to digitalise education. Under a recently-signed Memorandum of Understanding, the ...

Queensland’s top science students engaged in a week-long challenge to learn about the biofuels industry in order to support future jobs. Sixteen students joined the Queensland University of Technology’s Process Engineering Challenge at QUT’s Mackay Renewable Biocommodities Pilot Plant in late June. The ...

Online education resource, LiteracyPlanet, has officially launched LiteracyPlanet WordMania 2015 and is calling on primary school children around Australia to exercise their literacy skills and help reach the goal of 10 million minutes of literacy development. LiteracyPlanet Word Mania 2015 ...

Bridging the perceived disconnect between universities and schools is the aim of a new Monash University program designed to better prepare teachers. Justen O’Connor, senior lecturer for the faculty of education at Monash University, said there has been ongoing criticism ...

A new million dollar partnership aims to inspire young Queensland minds to aim high in the fields of science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM). With the support of a $3.95 million partnership announced last week between natural gas producer QGC ...

A Commonwealth Government program has delivered a $54 million investment return for some of the state’s most disadvantaged communities, a KPMG audit released today has found. Delivered via a partnership of five major universities (University of Western Sydney, University of ...

Teaching young kids computer science and coding is a good idea, argues a Charles Sturt University (CSU) expert, who says primary-aged children take to digital technology at a relatively fast rate. Jason Howarth, course director at the CSU school of ...