Julia Gillard pledges $2.3bn for remote education
JULIA Gillard has pledged to pump $2.3 billion into improving indigenous education, confessing she was "hit in the guts" by theextent of illiteracy among remote students.
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Jobs drying up for graduates, school leavers: job index
University graduates and school leavers will find it harder to find work this year, according to new job advertisement figures.
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Grin and bear it: private schools lift fees
THE cost of a private school education will soar this year, with some of the nation's top schools increasing their tuition fees at a time when household budgets are tightening.
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Smart State students in exodus to private schools
THE public school system has lost more than 55,000 students to private schools since Labor won Queensland in 1998 and rebranded it the Smart State.
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School experiment leaves pupils to their own devices
IMAGINE your teacher giving you a brand-new music and video player and letting you download songs, trawl the internet and chat online to friends, all in the name of school work.
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$10,000 discount for maths, science degrees under HECS changes
DEGREES in maths and science will be offered at discounts of more than $10,000 under changes taking effect on January 1.
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School fees reality lesson
THE most academically elite private school in Sydney has responded to the economic downturn by keeping fee increases to less than half the inflation rate.
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Minister to rethink HSC special provisions
THE NSW Minister for Education will meet high school principals and the Board of Studies in the new year to consider reviewing contentious special provisions for Higher School Certificate students.
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Maths: who is confused?
THE NSW Government will delay introduction of a long-awaited new syllabus for Higher School Certificate mathematics courses to avoid confusing schools with further changes when a national curriculum is introduced.
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Call for plan to tackle indigenous youth illiteracy
THE higher than expected levels of illiteracy among Aboriginal children represents more a failure of the education system to teach than of the students to learn, a leading indigenous educator said yesterday.
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