Children with disabilities are frequently discriminated against in Australian schools, with parents asked to send their child to another school or fork out extra money.
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By tying funding to disability categories, schools and parents are being put under pressure to seek a diagnosis for their child in order to get funding support.
As the new school year begins, here’s some advice for how parents and teachers can get off on the right foot.
Inner-city parents in urban redevelopment zones are the most likely to have problems getting their children into a government school.
A change in enrolment patterns demands a more comprehensive approach to selection to teacher education programs that goes beyond establishing minimum ATAR cutoff points.
Rather than being microcosms of the community, schools are increasingly divided by class and ethnicity.
You wouldn’t feel so confident about claiming you weren’t good at reading, so why is it okay to be openly negative about mathematics?
Children don’t learn all aspects of language from their parents, but invent a language structure themselves.
Around a fifth of children aged five to 16 will experience reading difficulties. Schools need clear guidelines on how to choose the best literacy programs for their students.
Supervisors can significantly influence whether a PhD succeeds or fails. But their relationship style with PhD students can vary widely.
The only way to retain good teachers is to change the way schools operate at a systemic level.
The dumping of Gonski education funding model will inevitably increase social inequality – funding for public schools will reduce while support for private schools increase.
Simon Birmingham, Minister for Education and Training, said this week that Australia runs one of the most generous student loan schemes in the world. Is that right?
India has invested hugely in to reforming its higher education sector – Australia must view this as an opportunity to capitalise on this growth through partnerships and training schemes.
Australian’s care so much about regional differences in words because it’s a reflection on a person’s identity.
Parents shouldn’t be concerned if their bilingual child is slower to develop their vocabularly, because in most cases this is just a temporary lag.
2013 was the year of Gonski; 2014 the year of higher education reform; 2015 has been the year of … hmmm … wait, what actually happened this year? Just a lot of chat really, with much debate, but little…
Children who fail to read regularly during long breaks from school will often see their reading ability drop. Here’s how to keep kids engaged in reading.
Stories about Santa can help to develop imagination, so there’s nothing wrong with bringing a little joyful magic into your child’s life.
The celebration of Christmas has distinct variations around the world, with many of these local traditions arising from particular historical circumstances.
A selection of some of the best books to share between children and parents on the topic of family and friends.
Tightening regulation will contain the damage but this alone will not address the deeper problems in vocational education.
Don’t panic if you didn’t get the school results you wanted – here’s what to do.
The new impact framework will improve some of the problems arising out of the ERA’s university research audit, but major challenges will remain.
The ATAR is being used less and less as the sole measure that universities use to select students. It’s time to question its value and the pressure it puts on students in year 12.