A number of education support systems for disadvantaged and vulnerable students in Queensland are to share in $288m in 'prevention' funds as part of the larger $446.6m Community Safety Package, announced in the June budget. For instance, the Queensland Pathways ...

The Australian Framework for Generative Artificial Intelligence in Schools released last Friday outlines what best practice is when it comes to using generative artificial intelligence (AI) in schools in relation to a number of areas. In February, education ministers agreed ...

An industrial relations reform bill that will see the official abolition of wage caps in NSW passed Parliament last Friday, along with other reforms to improve working conditions in the public sector. The new laws hope to offer a more ...

A year 12 student from Brisbane Grammar School has been named Young Historian of the Year after his essay won the National History Challenge. Isaac Robinson's essay and video titled 'The Collapse of the USSR' was submitted under this year's ...

Nine sweeping education reforms have been recommended by the Senate in The issue of increasing disruption in Australian school classrooms report, released by the Education and Employment References Committee last Friday. The inquiry found evidence-based practices should be used to ...

Awareness enterprise Epilepsy Smart Schools is calling for mandatory epilepsy training for teachers and schools to avoid 'adverse educational outcomes', which they say can include early school leaving, unemployment, and poverty in adulthood for children with the disorder. Schools are ...

The 2008 Melbourne Declaration on Educational Goals for Young Australians, which was signed by all Australian education ministers at the time, stated that “as a nation, Australia values the central role of building a democratic, equitable and just society – ...

The Australian Education Union (AEU) and its supporters met with Minister for Education Jason Clare earlier this month to remind the government of their election promise to fully fund all public schools by 2028. The AEU said the federal government ...

The first and only bilingual school of an Aboriginal language in NSW has reached capacity and seeks partners to support its long-term growth. Giingana Gumbaynggirr Freedom School (GGFS), in Coffs Harbour, started in 2022 with just 15 students and is ...

If there is a one-word answer to the often-posed question, 'What is the one thing that’s most different about the Finnish system?', it is trust. As I led a tour group through Finnish schools, a number of the group were ...