australian education

The ban on mobile phones in New South Wales schools is working, according to a survey of almost 1,000 principals.

These non-operating VET providers have been shut down as the government moves to tighten regulation of the sector.

In Australia, there has been a large increase in young people refusing to attend school and the pandemic is believed to have played a major role in this trend.

Department staff spent $171 a head at a Sydney restaurant.

Some students were asked to sign a confidentiality agreement after multiple errors were found in last year’s VCE exams.

A new Productivity Commission report reveals one in every five students nationally are not completing their full 13 years of basic education.

Encouragingly, despite the indoctrination meted out during the formal years of education, young Australians aged 25-34 overwhelmingly support our national day.

A 13-year-old in Singapore is performing as well as a 17-year-old in Australia.

The majority of Australia’s Year 9 students use punctuation at a Year 3 level.

‘What this report showed us yesterday is that we have one of the most segregated school systems in the OECD.’

‘It’s important to recognise that our position in the top 10 is largely due to the performance of other countries dropping below ours.’

Queensland University of Technology has removed the word ’merit' from its hiring process.

There is a danger that by reducing the teaching days to four, neither teachers nor students will benefit because flexibility is the natural enemy of discipline.