December 2010     The reading literacy of Australian 15-year-old students has fallen sharply over the past decade results from the 2009 administration of the OECD Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) reveal.  ...read more »

December 2010     A team of 83 specially trained chaplains will be on stand-by to provide emotional guidance and support to students in WA public schools following traumatic incidents.  The program forms part of the State Government’s $46million Better Behaviour and Pastoral Care strategy.  ...read more »

December 2010     My School 2.0 will be launched in the New Year after further validation and consultation with Independent schools regarding their financial information.  ...read more »

November 2010     Educators need to face facts that addressing social media in schools is an important part of ensuring students are ready for the real world as a digital citizen, according to an Australian elearning education expert.

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November 2010     Young people in the ACT will have individual pathways plans within the next four years to support their transition through school and on to further education, training and employment, Minister for Education and Training Andrew Barr has announced.  ...read more »

November 2010     Minister for School Education, Peter Garrett has announced $219.6 million for 58 new Trade Training Centres that will create vocational education pathways for students at 195 secondary schools around Australia.  ...read more »

November 2010     Australian school students will get a better understanding of the Asian region, to prepare them for a globalised economy of the future with $6.28 million allocated to projects boosting Asia literacy in schools.  Minister for School Education, Peter Garrett, has announced that 122 projects in 191 schools will receive $2.68 million under the second round of Becoming Asia Literate grants.

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October 2010     The Minister for Education and Training Verity Firth has released an evaluation into the trial of ethics in NSW primary schools which has found a high level of support for the course in school communities.  ...read more »

October 2010     The Minister for Education and Skills, Lin Thorp, today announced a consultation process to explore the merits of a four term school year in Tasmania.  ...read more »

October 2010     The mathematical skills of boys and girls, as well as men and women, are substantially equal, according to a new examination of existing studies in the current online edition of journal Psychological Bulletin. These studies, all published between 1990 and 2007, looked at over 1 million people from grade school to college and beyond. Chief author Janet Hyde says, the difference between the two sexes was so close as to be meaningless.   ...read more »