The PM's call to raise education standards faces an uphill battle over funding and debate over teaching standards. Australia's educational future is under threat. David Gonski led a review endorsing a $5 billion school reform package (on a yearly basis) ...

Educational leaders say that slashing funding flies in the face of the recommendations from the Gonski review. The NSW government decision to cut $1.7 billion from the education budget has left many teachers, students, parents and others associated with the ...

Great Britain might have finished third on the medal table at the London Olympics but debate continues about the amount of playing field space available to children. The government education secretary, Michael Grove, has relaxed the rules that set out ...

Non-government school leaders are worried about the redirection of funding, saying it tips the scales too far to government schools. After a long and costly two-year process of research, analysis and consultations with key stakeholders across Australia, the education sector ...

A University of Melbourne study has backed tough government measures to

The federal government has put pressure back on the states to implement its school funding system

Opposition education spokesman Christopher Pyne said last week if Labor did anything to undermine non-government school funding "we will dismantle (it)". Mr Pyne wants the government to extend the existing school funding model for two years. It's due to expire at the end of 2013. School education parliamentary ...

Prime Minister Julia Gillard met the premiers and chief ministers on Wednesday for COAG, which had the Gonski schools funding review and the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) at the top of the agenda. While there was a result for ...

The NSW Government says a new resourcing model for public schools will make funding fairer. But Labor and the Greens argue that the reform is just a different way of dividing up a shrinking pool of school funding. The new Resource ...

Stripping millions of dollars in funding from disability services in NSW schools will seriously disadvantage students with special needs, a union says. The government denies that money is being cut but admits schools may lose resources if enrolments change. Parents ...