Education
Schools in disability funding crisis
Tuesday, July 14 2015
Children with disabilities across the nation are missing out on funding after the Abbott Government broke its election promise to......
Education for Palestinian children at risk from UN funding crisis
Tuesday, July 7 2015
The main group supporting Palestinian refugees will run out of money for vital services by September this year. The United......
Encouraging Indigenous engineers
Thursday, June 18 2015
Workshops at Australia’s first National Indigenous Engineering Summit are developing programs to increase Indigenous involvement in the discipline. The focus......
Indigenous families focus for early learning program expansion
Tuesday, June 16 2015
Indigenous families will be the focus of the expansion of early learning and parenting program HIPPY. Minister for Social Services......
Is porn taking the place of sex ed?
Friday, June 12 2015
Porn is the new birds and the bees talk. It is estimated that two thirds of the western world with......
Education budget to widen the gap
Friday, May 15 2015
The Federal budget is still on the spotlight, and the Education budget has been slashed again this year. While some......
Victorian government inquiry to decide whether homework is useful
Monday, May 4 2015
Students find it boring. Parents find it stressful. Teachers don’t always value it, and academics say that it doesn’t lead......
Students call on universities to drop fossil fuel investments
Wednesday, April 22 2015
University students and their lecturers joined The National Day of Campus Divestment Action, urging universities to divest fossil fuel investments.......
Coding club creeping up on the curriculum
Monday, April 13 2015
Last Year, England became the first country to teach programming in primary and secondary schools. At the time, British Prime......
Australia’s top research universities need more research money
Tuesday, March 31 2015
After a confusing press release in which the Group of 8 Universities withdrew support for the deregulation of university fees......