PETALING JAYA: The streaming of Year Six pupils from primary schools to secondary schools should be a yearly routine that prioritises the parents’ preferences over the Dual Language Programme (DLP) schools they want their children to attend, say parent groups.
Since 1979, there have been more than 100 government inquiries into Australian teacher education. Another review will be handed down later this month, but there's reason to believe this will be the most consequential.
Music education wires children for learning. So with many schools currently trying to improve language and literacy levels, music educator and researcher Dr Anita Collins explains how learning music could be a vital key.
Many organisations are using new technologies to automate decisions about what opportunities are or are not available to us. And this is increasingly impacting children in education.
For Reconciliation Week, primary and secondary students are being encouraged to work with their local Indigenous community to translate an Acknowledgement of Country into the first language of their local area.