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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Reconciliation Week is a special time. It provides an opportunity to both think about what still needs to change in Indigenous Australians’ lives and also celebrate what has been achieved. Nicole Wade’s story belongs in the latter. The school principal, ...

"...Both students and parents have high expectations for achievement, but exposure to persistent and repeated negative representations of indigeneity or Indigenous academic ability from teachers and the media leads to disengagement, de-identification and reduced wellness." This statement, by a group ...

The 21st of February was International Mother Language Day, an annual UNESCO heritage day marking the important role of multilingualism in sustainable development. If you’re part of the 80 per cent of Australians who speak only English at home, then ...

David Unaipon - the Indigenous man on the Australian $50 note - would be proud. Professor Lester-Irabinna Rigney is about to give an inaugural lecture at King’s College London (KCL) bearing his name. Rigney, in addition to being a UniSA education ...