The release of the NAPLAN 2019 summary information showed writing scores for primary school students improved over last year’s results, but criticisms of the test and its purpose remain. While presenting the results last week under embargo, Australian Curriculum, Assessment ...

Education union officials are taking their fight for more public school funding to Parliament House, flanked by some high profile supporters. Labor leader Bill Shorten, his deputy Tanya Plibersek, and Greens leader Richard Di Natale joined campaigners in Canberra on Tuesday ...

Deputy Labor leader Tanya Plibersek wants Australian teachers to be the cream of the student crop. Following Finland's lead, last week, she reiterated a policy prefaced in September last year that would bar students with an ATAR below 80 from entering the ...

Amid reignited political, charitable and medical calls for asylum-seeking children to be transported from Nauru to Australia are educational ones. The Australian Education Union (AEU) is emphatic about it: they are calling for transportation of children and their families "as ...

The title of the 'Australia' section of the OECD's latest annual, education-centric report could be 'nevertheless'. This is because most negatives seemed to be counterbalanced with positives. For example, Education at a Glance 2018 revealed that while our university fees are relatively high, ...

After 30 years as a union official, Mary Bluett, the Australian Education Union Victorian branch president, has announced she will not run be running in the next ballot. First revealed in a letter to members, Bluett confirmed that she and ...

Public schools could be forced to close across Victoria with thousands of education support staff workers poised to join teachers and principals in a mass strike. Fair Work Australia on Thursday granted an Australian Education Union (AEU) request to let its 7000 members ...

Thousands of Victorian teachers are preparing to begin rolling work stoppages from June after the breakdown of wage talks between their union and the state government. The Australian Education Union said it is preparing for a lengthy fight against the ...