Educational Leadership

New analysis finds if Australian universities were treated like Australian schools, they would gain 11% in funding per year.

Ahead of a special COAG meeting, education experts at the Grattan Institute say it’s important David Gonski’s education vision isn't a tick-the-box exercise.

The damning report, released on Monday, says the decline is widespread and "equivalent to a generation of Australian school children falling short of their full learning potential".

Education Minister Simon Birmingham is confronted by a high school student questioning whether it is fair to continue to direct Commonwealth funds to private schools while their public counterparts can't afford to buy enough paper to print out all their resources.

Former principal Peter Hutton says doing away with year groupings and introducing an elective curriculum yielded strong results

Report says students must move from year-based curriculum to one that’s independent of age or grade