This story appeared in the October 2013 edition of Australian Teacher Magazine.
Contradictory in parts and clinging to elements of inquiry-based instruction, a report guiding ACT public schools' long-awaited shift toward the science of learning is "90 per cent" on the money, an expert has flagged.
Public school parents appear to be amongst the biggest winners from this year’s Victorian state budget, with cuts to education and delays to the rollout of free four-year-old Kindergarten flagged as the Allan Labor Government grapples with burgeon...
In a bid to ensure Tasmanian school students in regional and remote areas have access to quality education, the State Government has opted to extend remote teacher incentives.
A proven research project success story, designed to prevent and address student mental health problems, will be rolled out in South Australia this year.
Higher pay and less administrative work have enticed dozens of ex-teachers back to the classroom in NSW.
Almost half of Australian senior secondary students these days do school-based vocational education and training (VET), but those who teach them can feel “othered”, according to a study.
School meal programmes can feed children successfully without creating excess food waste when they offer a wide range of foods that students are familiar with and enjoy eating, new research has found.
Melbourne’s Yarra Valley Grammar School has suspended two Year 11 boys who created and shared an offensive spreadsheet ranking their female peers into categories based on their appearance, one being “unrapable”.
With the Coalition Government’s ban of student mobile phones in New Zealand schools coming into effect this week, reaction has ranged from the sceptical (kids will just get sneakier) to the optimistic (most kids seem OK with it).
Ka Ora, Ka Ako, New Zealand’s free school lunch programme has been given some reprieve with temporary funding to be put in place until a review is completed.