Several Sydney high schools will transition to co-education after community consultation showed strong support for migrating schools away from single-sex education. Randwick Boys and Randwick Girls High School will combine to form a co-ed high school for years 7-12. The ...

The Australian Financial Review (AFR) has named the principal of a small public primary school in country Victoria among the most powerful people in education in 2023. Jacquie Burrows was a teacher at Churchill Primary School (Churchill) prior to taking ...

One in five Australian students are entering high school without basic literacy and numeracy skills, according to a new report Research by the Australian Education Research Organisation (AERO) found 20 per cent of primary school students are starting Year 7 ...

Maths anxiety has become a growing issue in Australian classrooms, driving students’ numeracy results down, an education expert has said.  USyd Lecturer in Mathematics Education Dr Benjamin Zunica said maths anxiety is a fear of negative repercussions of not knowing ...

The process has begun – finally! We hope that the work to review the mathematics (and digital technologies) curriculum over the next 12 months does indeed result in clarity about what is to be taught. The seemingly poor performance by ...

Graduates from accredited teaching courses will be required to pass literacy and numeracy tests before they can enter the profession this year. Potential teachers will have three attempts at passing the Literacy and Numeracy Test for Initial Teacher Education (LANTITE) ...

Schools now have their hands on early NAPLAN data, a day after two US professors called for the marks to be discarded, and questioned the futility of comparisons with previous years. ACARA today released the NAPLAN 2018 summary information, which ...

Months before controversial NSW Education Minister Rob Stokes called for NAPLAN to be scrapped last week, change.org user Sparkt started an online petition in this vein. In the interim, a retired MIT professor slammed the tests, calling them "bizarre". Some Australian experts joined him; ...

In August we learned that there were NAPLAN triumphs and concerns: overall, reading and numeracy were up, yet writing had declined. Now, with ACARA's release of the 2017 NAPLAN National Report, long-term demographic trends have come to light. Since 2008, Indigenous ...