We have just received the long-awaited response from the Australian government to the disability royal commission’s final report. One of the most controversial aspects of the final report was a split between the commissioners on the issue of school segregation ...

Education academics have shared their analysis of the new NSW HSIE and Science and Technology syllabuses, stating the new content will be successfully integrated into schools with the right teacher development. The curriculum changes, which the that the Minns government ...

A campaign by an anti-co-education group of alumni to take over the Newington College ‘old boys’ executive, and prove its former students are mostly against the co-ed move, has failed. The Old Newingtonians’ Union (ONU) is divided into two warring old boys ...

A Gold Coast dad has started looking into research that suggests there is a correlation between attitudes around gender inequality and strict gender-based uniform policies in schools. Mark Morris pulled his sons out of the independent A.B. Paterson College earlier ...

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 ...