“Instead of helping her develop the language, all primary teachers assessed her language in comparison with the monolinguals and demanded to cut the other languages ‘to improve’ the school language.” That was one parent’s account of the way their daughter’s ...

Australia’s largest supplier of education resources to secondary schools has congratulated the Indigenous Literacy Foundation (ILF) for its tireless work in bolstering young Indigenous Australians’ literacy levels and engagement across remote parts of Australia. Campion Education partnered with ILF in ...

In 2017, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students constituted approximately six per cent of all Australian school enrollments. Yet, it is well-known that they tend to struggle in this context compared with their non-indigenous peers: their 10 point lower school ...

Never mind beautiful failures. University of Melbourne academic Tim Mayfield has deemed Australia a spectacular failure in terms of learning languages. Mayfield, who is executive director of the university’s Asia Education Foundation, noted that there has been a drastic decline ...