Quarter of young people not working or studying
Bianca Hall One in four young Australians do not work or study despite Australia's growing wealth.
Business endorses language plan
Bianca Hall The business sector has called on the states and territories to back Prime Minister Julia Gillard's plan to give every student the chance to study an Asian language by 2025.
Hearing told of sex education for kids
Bianca Hall Children will begin to be taught sexual education by as young as seven, a Senate estimates hearing was told yesterday.
PM pledges to push for better teachers to make the grade
Bianca Hall ONLY the best and brightest will be able to get into university teaching courses under the federal government's reform package to improve the educational outcomes of the nation's children.
Top-of-the-class teachers at heart of education plan
Bianca Hall Only the best and brightest will be able to get into university teaching courses, under the federal government's reform package to improve the educational outcomes of the nation's children.
Feds on attack as states cut budgets
Bianca Hall The federal government launched a bitter assault on Liberal states yesterday, saying Tuesday's state budgets that slashed education and health funding are a sign of what's to come under a federal...
Schools stick with religious chaplains
Bianca Hall Most Australian schools employing student welfare officers hired religious chaplains, figures released this week show.
New civics curriculum calls for students to be citizens of the web
Bianca Hall Students will be encouraged to use Twitter, blogs and Facebook as study tools in the new Civics and Citizenship curriculum.
School funds reform may be delayed
Bianca Hall Education Minister Peter Garrett says painstaking work to overhaul Australia's school-funding arrangements continues, but it's far from clear the work will be finished this year.
Gonski-model school funding legislation may miss 2013 deadline, says Garrett
Bianca Hall THE School Education Minister, Peter Garrett, says painstaking work to overhaul Australia's school funding arrangements continues, but it is far from clear the work will be finished this year.
School scheme gets 'F' despite millions spent
Bianca Hall A $540 MILLION government scheme to lift numeracy and literacy rates has made no discernible difference to the performance of schools taking part, an audit of the program found.
Audit pans literacy, numeracy program
Bianca Hall A $540 million government scheme to lift numeracy and literacy rates has made no discernible difference to the performance of schools taking part, an audit of the program found.
Push to add sex education to national curriculum
Bianca Hall With sexual infection rates among young people rising by 20 per cent in the past three years, there's never been a better time to talk about sex.
Broad-brush stroke for the arts in schools plan
Bianca Hall For the first time, all Australian students will study dance, drama, media arts, music and the visual arts until year 10, under a draft national curriculum issued yesterday.
School's out on $5b funding call: Gillard
Emma Macdonald, Bianca Hall The ACT government has welcomed the Gonski review's streamlined needs-based funding system for Australian schools, saying it was prepared to invest more in education if the Commonwealth and other...
Rich school, poor school
Dan Harrison, Bianca Hall OF ALL the scars the Labor Party carries from Mark Latham's turbulent 13-month reign as leader, perhaps the most visible ones can be seen in its approach to school funding.
High-spending Australia trails Asia in results
Bianca Hall School funding levels are no guarantee of good student results, a report to be released today reveals.
ACT focus of schools debate
Bianca Hall, Emma Macdonald Canberra will be the site of a ''grassroots, nationwide discussion'' on school funding this week as Prime Minister Julia Gillard defers any firm commitments to the Gonski review of funding and...
Govt talks up schools review
Bianca Hall The federal government spent yesterday trying to dodge leadership questions and talk up the most comprehensive review of the the education sector in almost 40 years.
Plea for school funds
Bianca Hall The Australian Education Union has called on the federal government to include an emergency $175 million ''equity package'' in this year's budget, with national literacy and numeracy programs...
