A leading US education academic has warned that it would be "extremely foolish" and even damaging to student learning if NAPLAN writing tests were marked by computers next year, as education ministers across Australia back a move to online marking.
Across Australia, about 22 university graduates are competing for every new graduate position and many will need to settle for low-paying entry roles "just to get their foot in the jobs market", a new national report has found.
When Sharna Clemmett got into law, after many years of full-time work, she felt like she "was a bit of a fraud."
Every Australian would receive a "lifelong skills account" to spend as they wished on university or technical education under a new proposal from the Business Council of Australia.
About 300 teachers are leading a change in the way maths is taught as part of a bid to arrest Australian students' declining or stagnating numeracy results and reverse the drop in students choosing to study maths after year 10.
Every Wednesday afternoon in term 3, all students at Malabar Public School put away their textbooks and gather in their classrooms to talk about everything from beauty and fear to terrorism and other global issues.
Students are offering other students up to $10,000 for a place in post-graduate law classes at UNSW, amid complaints that courses frequently fill up within a minute after online enrolments open.
When Ateeq-ur Rahman first arrived in Australia from Pakistan in 2011, he had very few plans after high school. Two years later, he was tossing up between offers to study medical science or mining engineering.
A handful of Sydney students spoke to NASA's acting administrator Robert Lightfoot and CSIRO's chief executive Larry Marshall about the possibilities for Australian students following this week's announcement that the country will establish a domestic space agency.
The coordinator of the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) has linked Australia's steady decline in all three test areas of maths, reading and science to the country's "tolerance of failure" in schools..
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"You don't get better at teaching just by doing it for longer" a visiting expert says.
Students in regional and remote parts of Australia are up to two years behind their metropolitan peers in NAPLAN English and PISA maths tests, and this gap is likely to widen in coming years if major funding and structural issues are not addressed, according to the Australian Education Union.
For nearly six months, Nicole Lim says her son Carlos Blanch, who has autism and is nonverbal, came home from school every week with cuts and bruises on his arms and legs.
An innovative Queensland project is helping preserve endangered languages.
A NSW primary school teacher who says she attempted suicide after being bullied by her principal and isolated by her colleagues for more than a year has received a six-figure settlement from her school authority.
National and NSW teachers' unions and education experts have strongly criticised Australian Education Minister Simon Birmingham's plan to introduce literacy and numeracy checks for all year 1 students, and say that it involves importing a test that has failed to improve reading skills in UK primary schools.
All year one students would undergo a national literacy and numeracy test, under a federal government plan to improve the detection of learning difficulties.
Grace Vegesana, in year 12 at Girraween High School, is planning to study law at university once she graduates, but said her perspective on the popular subject has completely changed since she learnt more about the disability and care sector.
About 200 students gathered around a few students who were making speeches and holding signs that read "It's ok to say 'no.' "
Australians are attending university at one of the highest rates in the OECD but the country has one of the lowest rates of graduates in science fields, which have some of the highest levels of employment.
Isabelle De Gioia, 12, is among the first group of year 6 students to sit the test to get into newly-created selective streams at Sydney's Catholic high schools.
The University of Sydney has been ranked fourth in the world for graduate employability.
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