School and education could be a solution to save indigenous languages from extinction, experts have said. Earlier this year, a survey revealed that students in primary school would rather learn an indigenous language than a traditional foreign one. While more ...
More »From disaster to distinction: one Indigenous woman’s education journey
Carmel Debel can remember the time her mother tried to enrol her and her brothers in the local primary school. It was back in 1990, when she was seven, and when the administration staff and principal saw her mum standing ...
More »Report finds relocating Indigenous students ‘off country’ has failed
A controversial strategy that involved moving Indigenous Australian students off country and relocating them at boarding schools to improve their educational opportunities has failed, a new report concludes. The report was led by Dr Marnie O’Bryan and Dr William Fogarty ...
More »New targets for closing the education gap
Prime Minister Scott Morrison and Indigenous leaders have announced 16 new Closing the Gap targets. The new agreement has the support of Australia's local, territory, state and federal government leaders. It's the first time the agreement has been developed with ...
More »Critical resources deployed to re-engage Indigenous students after COVID-19
A new kit of tools and resources has been rolled out to educators and teachers in schools to re-engage Indigenous students as NSW lessens its pandemic restrictions. Based at the University of Newcastle, The Office of Indigenous Strategy and Leadership and ...
More »Is direct instruction for all? Government program aimed at improving Indigenous literacy fails to hit the mark
A new study conducted by the University of South Australia and Batchelor Institute of Indigenous Tertiary Education (BIITE) has found that a $30 million federal government program developed to improve literacy outcomes for Indigenous Australians has failed to meet its ...
More »AEU slams government’s performance on closing early education gap
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 ...
More »Closing the Gap Report 2020: what progress has been made in education?
Over a decade ago, Commonwealth, state, territory and local governments committed to closing the gap in Indigenous disadvantage in a number of key areas. The 2020 Closing the Gap Report has just been released, containing information relating to Indigenous peoples’ life ...
More »Partnership helps make a difference in Indigenous literacy
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 ...
More »‘A school within a school’: helping to close the gap on Indigenous education
https://youtu.be/ABciWrJpRUI Gawura School, co-located at St Andrew’s Cathedral School in Sydney, is a coeducational K-6 school for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children primarily from urban areas. Although located on Gadigal Country, it teaches a highly successful Wiradjuri language ...
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