Next month, we are expecting the results from the annual NAPLAN tests, which students in years 3, 5, 7 and 9 sat earlier this year. Each year, the tests are widely promoted as a marker of student progress and are ...

New laws set to be introduced to state parliament would ensure religious schools cannot knock back job applications from prospective teachers because of their sexual orientation or gender identity. Greens MLC Robert Simms will introduce the legislation in August, which would remove ...

There are quite a few phrases and words in Australian education right now that are raising eyebrows amongst many teacher-education researchers in universities. The terms we are referring to are ‘explicit teaching’, ‘explicit systematic quality teaching’, ‘explicit instruction’, ‘what works’, ...

Nine principal's associations presented jointly developed proposals on research and professional support mechanisms to retain school leaders, to the federal education minister at a roundtable in late June. The bodies will continue collaborating with Education Minister Jason Clare after he ...

A University of New England researcher has collated 25 years' worth of Australian students' test results and found there has been no significant decline in three out of the four major tests students take. Since the year 2000, when Australia ...

One of Victoria’s oldest Catholic boys’ schools will admit female students for the first time in 2025 as part of a landmark program guaranteeing direct entry to university without an ATAR. Parade College, which dates back to 1871, will enrol ...

Students struggling with mathematics are not getting the help they need early enough, which is causing them to fall further behind, new research has found. A paper from the Centre for Independent Studies has found that as many as 400,000, ...

Exorbitant school uniform prices that are the most expensive in Australia has driven the Victorian government to announce a review into their cost. Schools, parents, students, principal peak bodies and social and community sector organisations will be consulted on how ...

The Queensland government will not remove the part of its anti-discrimination laws that allow faith-based schools to discriminate against staff based on their sexuality, pregnancy, relationship status and gender identity. The Anti-Discrimination Act 1991 underwent a 14-month review by the ...

Hundreds of people rallied at Tyndale Christian School in Adelaide on Wednesday night to oppose possible changes to discrimination laws for faith-based schools. Organisers say the event was in direct response to a recent report by the Australian Law Reform Commission (ALRC) ...