Missing just one day of school has negative consequences for a student’s academic achievement, the first major study linking poor attendance to lower NAPLAN results has found.
Monash students take top honours in Microsoft Imagine Cup
Monash University students Jarrel Seah and Jennifer Tang are gaining global recognition for their Eyenaemia mobile phone app, which gives users an anaemia risk assessment within minutes based on a self-taken photograph of their lower eyelid.
NAPLAN's move online will be seriously delayed
The move to online NAPLAN testing will be delayed and could still be several years away despite the federal education minister Christopher Pyne's push to have all students sitting the exams via the web no later than 2016.
Unpopular uni debts likely to be reversed
The federal government is expected to ditch one of its most controversial budget measures - the plan to apply real interest rates to student debts - following advice from the architect of the HECS repayment scheme that it is unfair to poor graduates.
Schools need more support for children with autism
The federal government’s decision to abandon the Gonski funding model was a huge blow to students with autism, many of whom already find school extremely challenging, academics speaking at a major conference in Sydney have said.
Melbourne University pulls Teach for Australia "criticism"
Melbourne University has removed a perceived criticism of the controversial Teach for Australia program from its submission to the federal inquiry into teacher education.
Parents using teachers as babysitters
Parents who cannot secure after-school care or who want to avoid paying the fees are relying on teachers to be defacto babysitters outside school hours, principals and childcare groups warn.
Business Council calls for urgent education overhaul
An urgent intervention is needed in Australia’s education and training system as early as kindergarten to protect future prosperity, one of the nation’s leading business figures warns.
Sydney students fall down the rabbit hole
It didn't quite reach the absurdity of Lewis Carroll’s Wonderland. But the sight of 75 primary school girls dressed as Alice stampeding through inner-city laneways was surreal enough to snap passing commuters from their morning stupor.
Review partner rejects Donnelly view on school punishments
The co-chairman of the federal government's national curriculum review has disassociated himself from comments by his fellow co-chairman, Kevin Donnelly, supporting corporal punishment in schools.