australian education

The ban on mobile phones in New South Wales schools is working, according to a survey of almost 1,000 principals.

These non-operating VET providers have been shut down as the government moves to tighten regulation of the sector.

In Australia, there has been a large increase in young people refusing to attend school and the pandemic ...

Ella Neve didn't always have the best experience at school.  But she wants that to change for kids ...

Department staff spent $171 a head at a Sydney restaurant.

Some students were asked to sign a confidentiality agreement after multiple errors were found in last year's VCE ...

A new Productivity Commission report reveals one in every five students nationally are not completing their full 13 ...

Encouragingly, despite the indoctrination meted out during the formal years of education, young Australians aged 25-34 overwhelmingly support ...

A 13-year-old in Singapore is performing as well as a 17-year-old in Australia.

The majority of Australia’s Year 9 students use punctuation at a Year 3 level.

'What this report showed us yesterday is that we have one of the most segregated school systems in ...

'It’s important to recognise that our position in the top 10 is largely due to the performance of ...

Queensland University of Technology has removed the word 'merit' from its hiring process.

There is a danger that by reducing the teaching days to four, neither teachers nor students will benefit ...

Australian universities are calling on the Albanese government to provide more flexible funding arrangements as the current model ...

One-third of the 1.3 million Australian students who sat the NAPLAN exam failed to meet its new benchmarks ...

Australia's opposition parties have raised concerns that the federal government’s plan to scrap the 50 percent pass rule ...

A court has ruled to formally annul thousands of student debts and slapped now-defunct private training college Phoenix Institute ...

Before m made headlines for her expulsion from the Victorian Liberal Party for attending a women’s rights rally, ...

An education expert has suggested that universities that do not have high-quality teaching degrees should face sanctions. Adam ...

One of the Victorian private schools facing a new $322 million (US$214 million) state tax caters to children with ...

Australia’s school retention rate has dropped to the lowest level in 10 years, with one in five teenagers ...

One in five students is starting high school with the literacy and maths skills of a Year Four ...

Experts have recommended a revamp to Australia's approach to developing its future teachers, including higher entry requirements, a ...

Commentary If, like most of us, you are under the impression that parents have a “right” to see ...

Commentary Children are society’s most precious commodity or asset. It is their well-being and the virtues instilled in ...

Financial incentives are encouraging Australian universities to admit more and more high school graduates that receive low Australian ...