Regardless of the outcomes, the Gonski review and the four commissioned research papers it recently released are a game-changer in a decades-old debate. They already form a benchmark against which future decisions will be judged. We've had ample research and ...

"An ill-suited body for formulating and driving a national vision and a national agenda for education". That was how the present ministerial council for education was described by leading educationalist, Brian Croke, director of the NSW Catholic Education Commission , ...

Monday, August 1 saw the long-delayed release of the draft NSW version of the new Australian English curriculum. Now sit back and watch the fights; not quite Tour de France, but it's always entertaining to watch argie-bargie over new English ...

The most intriguing aspect of the four papers commissioned by the Gonski funding review panel and released August 31 is the fact that neither the education minister, Peter Garrett, nor chair of the review, David Gonski, wanted to acknowledge ownership. ...

I have heard of all kinds of silliness that clusters around committees but I think New Zealand took the cake recently when a committee representing key education groups came together for a weekend assembly. The lofty purpose of this committee? ...

If the digital world is the one which your students increasingly inhabit, how do you go about ensuring they behave in an ethical way? How do you prompt young people to consider their actions have consequences in the virtual world, ...

When the 1600 school leaders who undertook the Principals Australia survey were asked to score their proficiency across a range of benchmarks, rural and remote practice ranked third from the bottom. Just 14 per cent rated themselves as highly proficient ...

There are now more Year 7 to 10 students in private schools in the ACT than in public schools. This received national publicity when the ACT government's 2011 school census report was released in April. There was much speculation about ...

It's hard for anyone, from teachers through to school and system administrators, to escape the ever-insistent demand for school improvement and, yes, even revolution. Calls for changes in educational provision, management, curriculum, and pedagogy come from all corners. And, almost ...

Three years into the Australian Government's education revolution, school principals remain unconvinced, with many opposing key elements of the reforms. A new survey of 1600 school leaders, commissioned by Principals Australia, shows widespread division over the external push to reform ...