Australian Year 8 students have cracked the top ten for maths and science globally, with the 2019 Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) showing they were outperformed by only six other countries. The results, which were released in ...

Public school principals are struggling to provide adequate funding for students with a disability and report having to siphon funds from other school budgets to make up for the shortfall, according to the Australian Education Union’s (AEU) 2020 State of ...

Public schools have been dubbed one of the losers in the government’s 2020-21 Budget. Private schools will have their funding grow by 25.6 per cent over the next three years, to $16.1 billion by 2023/24. But public schools will only ...

The Australian Education Union (AEU) has responded to the latest Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development's (OECD) report on worldwide education indicators, saying Australia’s poor ranking in several areas reflects inadequate government funding policies. These indicators include resource equity, staffing, and ...

The Australian Education Union (AEU) is sceptical about a proposed new form of assessment called the Australian National Standardised Assessment (ANSA) after a review into NAPLAN last week. The NAPLAN review was commissioned by the Queensland, NSW, ACT and Victorian ...

A new global report by The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) has concluded that Australian educators require more investment in professional development and training to better equip them to deal with students with a disability and reduce ...

Today, being Public Education Day, is an opportunity to acknowledge the critical role that public schools, preschools and TAFEs play in strengthening the social, economic and cultural fabric of Australian society. The Australian Education Union (AEU) believes that “free, public ...

Pressure is mounting to cease normal school operations in NSW after the Australian Education Union (AEU) met with Prime Minister Scott Morrison yesterday, a day after the union met with Education Minister Dan Tehan. The AEU is yet to respond ...

The Australian Education Union (AEU) has criticised the Morrison government’s commitment to closing the gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous outcomes in a number of areas, including early childhood education. Following the release of the Closing the Gap 2020 Report, the ...

Despite the reform agenda made at the two-day Education Council meeting in Alice Springs, the Australian Education Union (AEU) has labelled it Groundhog Day. The AEU believes Australia’s education system is stuck in a “time loop of bad policy, no ...