The shape of Australia’s school system is undergoing a significant change. Enrolments in independent schools are growing, while fewer students are going to public schools. Why are more families choosing an independent or Catholic school, when they could send their ...

Aussies living in Sydney will for the first time spend about $150,000 per child on 13 years of education as the cost of schooling skyrockets in 2025. A Futurity Investment Group analysis found there has been a 33 per cent increase ...

The funding wars are a step closer to being resolved after the Prime Minister announced the federal government will meet demands to increase its public school funding offer to 25 per cent on Friday. During an address to the National ...

A major international test has revealed a concerning gender gap in maths among Australian school students. In the 2023 Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS), Australia’s boys did much better than girls. Year 4 boys outperformed girls by ...

The admissions centre that handles university applications in NSW and the ACT has said students applying for equity scholarships has surged more than 35 per cent this year. The University Admissions Centre (UAC) has received over 4,500 scholarship applications so ...

Year 4 students who were in Kindergarten and Year 1 during Covid-19 lockdowns have "defied concerns about disrupted learning," a report analysing Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) has found. TIMSS is a study that compares student performance ...

In the 1960s, when the real post-war revolution in education began, teachers believed they were helping transform schools from traditional teacher-centred approaches to child-centred approaches.  From learning by rote and repetition to learning by doing. Teachers of that era were changing the student ...

School-level results for the National Assessment Program - Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN), released on Wednesday, show that First Nations, poorer and rural, regional and remote students are still falling behind in learning due to those factors. NSW There were exceptions ...

Recent tutoring programs rolled out by education departments are being assessed as having little effect on student learning. Why is that, and how can we make tutoring actually work? An audit of a $1.2bn Victorian tutoring program, released in June, found ...

There is no doubt that we live in challenging times. Our era has been labelled by some as ‘post-truth’, implying that truth is irrelevant where appeals to emotion and personal belief override evidence and objective facts. A post-truth world is ...