Standard drops off for top students
ANALYSIS of a decade of student tests provides compelling evidence of a fall in achievement in Australia.
Education
PM recycles Trade Training Centres
The Prime Minister has trumpeted the fifth round of a $2.5 billion, 10-year program that has allocated almost $1.5bn.
Substandard teachers on notice
TEACHERS unable to meet expected standards will be moved out of the profession under tough new measures being introduced in NSW.
Australia ‘most costly’ study destination
AUSTRALIA has been ranked as the most expensive country for international students, but the falling Aussie could spark a boom.
Language a ‘window’ into Asian culture
LEARNING a language underpins Australia’s engagement with Asia but a radical rethink is required on what is taught and how.
Funding deal locks in Catholics
CATHOLIC education administrators have accepted a compromise deal with the South Australian and federal Labor governments.
$35m skills program for youth jobs
KEVIN Rudd has announced a $35 million program to give 8900 disadvantaged youth a pathway to gaining employment qualifications.
Reading Recovery a dud
READING Recovery fails to teach at-risk primary school children how to read.
No school to miss on funding: Shorten
PUBLIC schools in Queensland, WA and the Northern Territory will continue to receive extra funding under a Labor government.
Federal place needs to be debated
LAST week saw a host of important education policy statements.
Reading Recovery deemed a failure
READING Recovery has been blamed for a lack of improvement in skills in New Zealand, where the program was created.
PM repeats a year on school care
KEVIN Rudd has moved to woo working parents by channelling $450 million into out-of-school-hours care.
Langbroek cries foul
THE Queensland government yesterday failed in its last-minute bid to sign up to Labor’s school funding reforms.
School funding: state falls in line
KEVIN Rudd’s eleventh hour-deal on school funding with two conservative states has defused education as a key election issue.
Carr acts to ease pain of uni cuts
LABOR will move today to ease a feud with the tertiary education sector by outlining ways to cut burdens on universities.
Rudd’s plan no plus for schools
LABOR is merely playing catch-up with the Coalition.
Ensuring unis are free to flourish
A SOCIETY without knowledge or innovation is going nowhere.
‘Labor achievement’ an election weapon
ANNOUNCING the $12.2 billion schools deal with the Victoria, Bill Shorten flagged the agreement as a key election weapon.
We’ll sign on schools too: Queensland
QUEENSLAND will sign up to the federal school funding reforms if it gets the same deal as Victoria, the state’s education minister says.
Gillard policies dumped in deal blitz
KEVIN Rudd has dumped key demands of Julia Gillard’s education and disability policy to get deals with Victoria and WA.
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