An annual design competition has brought young people and professionals together to offer primary and secondary students an opportunity to create and develop robots. Young robot designers revealed their machines for the 2015 RoboCup Junior competition at the University of ...

States should take full control over the way primary and secondary schools in Australia are run, funded and regulated, a new report concludes. The report, published by the Melbourne School of Government, found that the current system of mixed responsibilities ...

Teachers are "flocking to participate” in the newly launched pilot of teacher literacy and numeracy testing, the Education Minister Christopher Pyne has said. In a statement issued on Friday, Pyne said the initial stage of the pilot testing regime – developed ...

The number of students learning a second language is in decline, with a shortage of qualified teachers and the high-cost of offering languages at university being partly to blame. This is according to professor Jane Simpson, deputy director of the ...

The Australia National University’s inaugural chair of leadership says community leaders are more respected and valued by society than politicians. Professor Giles Hirst says this emerging group is made of people who have a strong commitment to particular visions and ...

School principals are getting ready to jet off to the remote Indigenous communities of the Torres Strait Islands. The annual Women Yarning Up trip is organised by Bond University in conjunction with the Alliance of Girls’ Schools Australasia. “Indigenous education ...

UTS architecture students will get hands-on experience developing a master plan for the campus redesign of a local high school. Postgraduate students and staff from UTS’s school of architecture have been appointed to guide the International Grammar School (IGS) through ...

The University of Melbourne has launched its new Bachelor of Agriculture degree, designed to meet the high demand for agricultural scientists. The world’s population is projected to reach around 8 billion by 2025, with millions of people likely to move ...

Principals will gather in Melbourne today to launch the Prototype Trial for an industry-first certification. Louisa Rennie, director of Australian Principal Certification said the team is delighted to be able to launch the Australian Principal Certification Prototype Trial. “We're gathering ...

Strengthening Australia’s long-term relationship with India depends partly on the investment schools make in teaching students Hindi. Recognising the importance of teaching school-aged students Hindi, the Australian National University (ANU) South Asia Research Institute is holding a workshop on Friday ...