NSW public school’s have dominated this year’s HSC First in Course list, with 73 of 114 courses topped by public school students. Sydney Boys High School was the most successful public school on the list, earning eight First in Course ...

It’s essential to test children for speech and language disorders, but applying monolingual tests to multilingual children only leads to poor diagnoses and damaged learning outcomes, experts say. The comments were made by linguistics scholar Dr Madalena Cruz-Ferreira, who this ...

It’s time to look beyond the Australian Tertiary Admission Rank. Australian universities have had it so good for so long. They expect and have become accustomed to secondary schools doing the university selection testing using the ATAR. At the completion ...

An education policy and research body has rebuked the government for its approach to sector funding, calling it "disjointed". Victoria University's Mitchell Institute, in its report Expenditure on Education and Training in Australia 2017, based its view on 2015-16 federal, state ...

In August we learned that there were NAPLAN triumphs and concerns: overall, reading and numeracy were up, yet writing had declined. Now, with ACARA's release of the 2017 NAPLAN National Report, long-term demographic trends have come to light. Since 2008, Indigenous ...

The majority of Gen Z students feel unprepared to leave school and want access to more hands-on and creative learning experiences in the classroom, a new study has found. The Adobe study, Gen Z in the Classroom: Creating the Future, ...

Studies show girls are 25 per cent less confident in their ability to learn maths than boys, but a new national mentoring program aims to alter this reality. The mathematics network is now being piloted in five states (NSW, QLD, ...

“As a uni student who just moved out of home, being able to pay rent as well as survive without a job or parental help was my biggest stress ... the availability of jobs to uni students, especially new ones I ...

Twelve-hour days and big classes are realities that Singapore's teachers face daily. Such conditions create stressful work environments which impede their capacity to live up to their global reputation for teaching excellence. They are usually too exhausted to be the classroom innovators they ...

It's been five years since the last – and Australia's inaugural – Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS) results were released. Now, with the 2016 crop divulged, we've improved, but not by much. Just 16 per cent of the over ...