Former principal Jan Tinetti appointed Minister of Education

School news / NSW schools referred to standards authority over ‘perverse’ teachings

The NSW Education Standards Authority (NESA) will investigate several independent Catholic schools following shocking allegations aired by the ABC’s Four Corners program last night.

School news / NSW Labor dishonest or dumb on school funding: Liberals

Labor has vastly underestimated how much it will cost to address historic underfunding in the 800,000 NSW public school students, the NSW State Government says.

School news / Principals support Auckland school closures despite delayed communications

Principals have backed the Ministry of Education’s call to close all Auckland schools this week due to floods.

School news / ‘Failing to see 50 years of evidence’: Noel Pearson slams inquiry-based learning

The surge of crime and chaos plaguing Alice Springs is rooted in education authorities’ ongoing refusal to discard student-led learning and adopt evidence-based teaching methods – a shameful rejection of the science that has denied the most disadv...

School news / Small-group tutoring key to equalising education, report finds

Small-group tuition could help close Australia's massive gap in outcomes between advantaged and disadvantaged students, a new Grattan Institute report has found.

School news / Labor pledge to up NSW public school funds

NSW public schools would receive 95 per cent of their needs-based funding two years earlier than planned under a $400 million Labor election pledge.

Opinion / Children in New Zealand left rudderless by failing education system

New Zealand’s education system is in a state of deep malaise. For more than two decades, the literacy and numeracy achievement of our young people has been declining. The downward trend is clear, in both our national monitoring data and internatio...

School news / Call for NSW screen addiction studies fund

Understanding screen addiction and its impact on children's developing minds would be improved by a $2.5 million research fund under a NSW Labor proposal.

Opinion / AI chatbots will be a game-changer for educational assessment

I hated sitting exams at school and university.

Opinion / Australian teachers are dissatisfied with their jobs but their sense of professional belonging is strong

Teachers around Australia are preparing to head back to the classroom for 2023.