Education

Last year it was announced the Government will be slashing funding for fine arts courses in Tafes across NSW. After...

When Prime Minister Julia Gillard officially released the latest installment of the Government’s MySchool website, she heralded it as an...

Literacy levels in Indigenous Australians have long been much poorer than non-Indigenous Australians. Today, Indigenous authors Dylan Coleman, Ali Cobby...

Where have the opportunities to learn about Africa in Australian universities gone? It seems there’s a blind-spot when it comes...

Will Julia Gillard’s ‘reading blitz’ blow illiteracy out of the water? Or has the new policy failed to address the...

An organisation is helping to close the gap in a very real way. With a tiny budget and some very...

An innovative program organised by the Indigenous Literacy Foundation (ILF) is providing experience with books for very young children in...

The birds and the bees. Or is it the bees and the bees? The birds and the birds? Sex education...

In results released today Australian children were beaten by 26 countries in the 2011 Progress in International Reading and Literacy...

The PIRLS results are the first to give information about younger readers, and suggest that funding at the early levels...