Archived News for Education Sector Professionals

A new report from Early Childhood Australia (ECA) has highlighted the importance of the Australian Government's national reforms to early childhood education and care.

The State of the Sector report: Our future on the line; keeping the early childhood education and care reforms on track, examines national progress towards the new National Quality Framework and how each state and territory measures up.

The Australian Government is working with State and Territory governments to introduce a National Quality Framework for child care, which will lift the standard of care across the country. The new reforms will improve staff to child ratios, so that every child gets more individual care and attention and raise staff qualifications, to ensure staff are better able to lead activities that help children learn and develop.

New research paper: Accessing VET Learner Attainment Data

The benefits of enabling electronic access to learner information for formal verification are addressed in a new positioning paper.

New regime for education in NSW

The NSW Deputy Leader of The Nationals, Adrian Piccoli, has been appointed Minister for Education in the state’s new coalition Cabinet.

Call for Asian language learning proposals

Applications have been called for the third and final round of the Federal Government’s Strategic Collaboration and Partnership Fund, part of the National Asian Languages and Studies in Schools program.

WA and Victoria call for VET awards nominations

Western Australia and Victoria are both calling for nominations for their state vocational education and training awards.

Go8 calls for new model to meet university funding gap

Australia’s leading universities have called for measures to address a 30% funding gap between base funding provided to universities and the costs of their core activities.

Teaching preparation programs under assessment

The Australian Learning and Teaching Council has launched two new projects looking at university professional development programs and how they are evaluated.

Industry Skills Council calls for action on literacy and numeracy

A report released by the Industry Skills Councils, representing 11 separate industry skills groupings, has warned that as many as 53 per cent of working-age Australians have difficulty with numeracy skills, and 46 per cent of Australian adults have problems with reading skills.

Lack of access to education services still affects rural population

Australian children growing up in major cities do better in terms of their physical development and educational outcomes than children living in regional and remote areas, according to an analysis by the Australian Institute of Family Studies.

UWA appoints new Vice-Chancellor

An internationally-recognised academic and university leader has been appointed as Vice-Chancellor of The University of Western Australia from 2012.

Guidelines for student safety released

Universities Australia, representing Australia’s 39 universities, has released its commissioned Good Practice Guidelines for Enhancing Student Safety, providing a safety good practice frameword for students and staff, both on and off university campuses.