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Teenagers in Australia have fallen two years behind the performance of students who sat an equivalent test 20 years ago, with half now struggling with basic reading and mathematics. The OECD blamed ...

The education system needs to change. No argument, but catastrophising the PISA results is an annual hobby of the media.

Our students now perform at levels up to two years below what they did more than a decade ago. In the past 20 years the proportion of low-performing students in maths has doubled, with similar trends ...

The beginning of the 2025 school year has seen the release of new data pointing to the depth of the crisis confronting the public education system. Successive Labor and Liberal-National governments ...

While the Australian Tertiary Education Commission (ATEC) has been operating in an interim capacity, legislation to formally establish it passed parliament on March 31, as the government moves to ...

Institutions and agents have largely welcomed Australia’s decision to close a loophole that allows international students to switch to cheaper providers shortly after arriving in the country, but some ...

Australia’s schooling system is among the most highly segregated in the OECD. Public schools educate the majority of disadvantaged students, while there is concentrated advantage in private schools.

Nationals leader Matt Canavan says boys are ‘sick and tired of the feminisation’ of Australia’s curriculum. An education ...

The controversy was ignited by columnist Kylie Lang who highlighted Australia is not only falling further behind Asian powerhouses like Singapore, Japan, and South Korea, but also ranking among the ...

Geostrategic competition is usually seen in terms of military modernization, infrastructure development, technology investment, resource exploitation, or economic statecraft. Education generally isn’t ...