Education
Indigenous approaches to Kids Teaching Kids
Wednesday, October 26 2011
Another facet of the 2011 Kids Teaching Kids Conference is its focus on Indigenous approaches to environmental sustainability. ...
Indigenous literacy on the shelves
Friday, October 21 2011
What happens when a bunch of kids get together with successful children’s author Andy Griffiths? A lot of fun and......
Young academics leaving higher education
Friday, October 21 2011
A new report has found that 40% of young academics are planning to leave the sector in the next decade,......
NT intervention continues, welfare to be linked to school attendance
Tuesday, October 18 2011
The Federal Government has today proposed reforming the Northern Territory intervention welfare policy to link parents’ welfare payments to their......
Homophobia in our schools
Friday, October 14 2011
School yard bullying is a growing concern in school yards. In today’s politically correct society more and more attention is......
NT’s English in schools policy quashed bilingual ‘creative enclaves’
Monday, September 26 2011
The Northern Territory has released a draft update to its controversial policy on language in schools. In 2009 the Territory......
Indigenous Literacy Day highlights the need to close the gap
Wednesday, September 7 2011
Today’s Indigenous Literacy day highlights the need to close the gap between literacy levels in Indigenous students living in remote......
Steiner Independent Curriculum
Friday, August 26 2011
The new national education curriculum is due to be introduced in to Australian schools from 2012. Only three education systems......
International Students
Friday, August 19 2011
As if increasing competition, the high Australian dollar and our vigorous visa application system weren’t enough, international students are now......
Childcare centres starting out on the road to gender-neutrality
Monday, August 1 2011
A pre-school in Sweden received a lot of publicity recently because of its gender-neutral curriculum. It has avoided using books......