Teachers need to learn maths
Helping early childhood educators overcome their difficulties with maths could be the key to improving students’ performance, an Edith Cowan University researcher says.
Education
Closing the Gap a matter of pride
For Libby Cook-Black, Closing the Gap isn’t some random set of numbers in an annual report.
More STEM funds to target women
Australia desperately needs to increase the number of women in science and maths.
Selective schools for rich kids
Students from highly privileged backgrounds are filling the classrooms at academically selective schools.
Call to rethink metrics tool
The learning gap between remote indigenous students and those in capital cities could be greater than measures suggest.
Payback from pre-school
Early childhood education can multiply disadvantaged kids’ prospects of obtaining post-school qualifications.
$750m top schools ‘don’t need’
Wealthy private schools are overflowing with private cash but still receive taxpayer-funded handouts.
Gillard learning fund falls short
Despite Julie Bishop’s generosity, pledges to the Julia Gillard-chaired Global Partnership for Education are well short of target.
Labor, Greens the same: PM
PM uses Adam Bandt grilling to say there are no differences between Greens and Labor left after a heated first QT of 2018.
Postcodes don’t equal top marks
Educational success has little to do with socio-economic status, despite the cultural left’s claims.
Private schools freezing fees
The shift to public education is accelerating, and private schools are feeling the pressure.
Gonski driving Catholic exodus
Public schools are grabbing enrolments from the Catholic system, according to new data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics released today.
Billions wasted on VET
Open market training schemes have backfired, as governments spent billions of dollars to help fewer students.
School bubbler ban over lead risk
Children at West Australian schools were given bottled water after contaminated bubbler scares.
Education Minister slams ABC
The Education Minister has hit out at the ABC over an interactive tool he described as ‘deliberately provocative clickbait’.
Training system could fail nation
Vocational education needs urgent attention to stop Australia becoming a backwater in the global innovation race.
Year 1 for phonics test push
The Victorian opposition will introduce a compulsory phonics check for all Year 1 students as part of its election package.
Expert urges uniform curriculum
An education expert has warned the national curriculum is at risk of significant variation across the nation.
Minister backs ‘Aussie values’
Simon Birmingham has backed a Victorian Coalition plan to prioritise the teaching of civics and “Australian values’’ in schools.
Push for new schools formula
A new system that gives schools access to evidence-based research has been pushed in a bid to improve student results.
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