Peter Garrett
$74m put aside to pay for 'blatant' campaigns
Daniel Hurst An extra $74 million will be channelled into federal government advertising campaigns despite the budget's bleak finances.
Australian children among the sleepiest
Dan Harrison Sleepiness is holding Australian schoolchildren back in the international education race, a study suggests.
Families still struggling with cost
Rachel Browne, Daniella Miletic and Mark Kenny More than one-third of families struggle to pay childcare fees despite increased federal government assistance over the past decade, according to a new report by public policy think tank The...
PM warns of need for improvement
Daniel Hurst Some of Australia's disadvantaged schools have been marked up but the nation still has room for improvement, Prime Minister Julia Gillard said as she trumpeted the latest performance data.
Victoria throws education reforms into disarray
Farrah Tomazin Furious Gillard government warns more than $1 billion in funding placed at risk.
Butt out of education, Queensland tells PM
Daniel Hurst and Amy Remeikis Queensland has told Julia Gillard to “butt out of education” while revealing it would follow Victoria in hatching its own school funding reform plan.
Pyne vows to scrap My School rankings
Jewel Topsfield The federal Coalition would review controversial NAPLAN tests and remove the publication of individual school results on the My School website if elected to government, to prevent the ''unnecessary...
NAPLAN tests take heavy toll
Jewel Topsfield Teachers are holding practice tests for months prior to NAPLAN and children are experiencing stress-related vomiting and sleeplessness, according to a national study.
Peter Hartcher
Report card makes grim reading
Peter Hartcher A lifelong primary teacher talks about a school she worked in as having two eras - first was a prehistoric age that she calls "Before Tess".
Just 14 recruits in push for teachers
Jewel Topsfield A $16 MILLION federal Labor commitment to stem the shortage of maths and science teachers by fast-tracking bankers, accountants and engineers into classrooms has recruited only 14 participants.
PM urged to spell out education reforms
Daniel Hurst THE states have demanded the Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, urgently spell out her signature education reforms amid fears time is running out to effectively implement the $6.
Twentysomethings still suffering GFC effects
Daniel Hurst The share of Australians in their 20s who are not learning or earning has remained stubbornly high, failing to ease to pre-global financial crisis levels, a new report reveals.
Garrett calls for all to back school reforms
Emma Macdonald Education Editor Federal Schools Minister Peter Garrett concedes the latest international school comparisons confirmed Australia's education performance is flatlining and ''urgent action is needed''.
Garrett calls for all to back school reforms
Emma Macdonald Federal Schools Minister Peter Garrett conceded the latest international school comparisons confirm Australia’s education performance is "flat-lining" and "urgent action is needed".
Maths and English - nation could do better
Josephine Tovey AUSTRALIAN schoolchildren's results in maths and science have flat-lined over two decades, while their reading ability is lagging many developed nations, including the United States, England and...
The great race to the top of the class
Late one night last year, a group of South Korean government inspectors set out for a series of raids in Seoul.
Yunupingu voices hope for change to constitution
Michael Gordon Twenty years after releasing the song that became an anthem of the reconciliation movement, Yothu Yindi's front man has embraced constitutional recognition of indigenous Australians as the next step...
Yothu Yindi singer hospitalised
Yothu Yindi singer Mandawuy Yunupingu has been rushed to hospital after collapsing at his home in Arnhem Land.
Crushing debt leaves private school struggling
Jewel Topsfield Shocked parents question how private school could have amassed $18m in debt.
Proving ground
Tom Arup IT IS early morning on Cape York and Environment Minister Tony Burke is bouncing across the vast Aurukun wetlands in the back of a speedboat.
