Education

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...

Education plays huge and important role for Australian society over the years. The main role of educational institutions is to...

Teachers need further enrichment and confidence to incorporate the Aboriginal community into their teaching practices. That’s according to findings from...