Canberra Times (Australia)

The federal government will introduce laws to cut payments to families where children repeatedly miss school.

A student at Canberra Boys Grammar, Andrew re-imagined Australian photographer Bill Henson's controversial image of a naked girl as part of his final NSW Higher School Certificate Visual Arts assessment and intended on making the project as public as possible.

One-quarter of Australia's children have worries about their own safety and that of other children, a new study has revealed. In the lead-up to Childhood Hero Day this Friday, the Australian Childhood Foundation has released a report that reveals Australian children are worried about a surprising number of things, including being abused and being alone in public places.

IF ACT Education Minister Andrew Barr gets his way Canberrans may be celebrating their last Queen's Birthday long weekend. Instead of honouring our monarch we could soon be honouring our children, with the minister calling for the Queen's Birthday break to be renamed the Kids' Day long weekend.

A big pre-election spend on education will mark Tuesday's ACT budget, with teachers to receive nearly $3million in professional development and all ACT colleges to receive a specialist vocational education, training and careers teacher next year

The testing of all Australian students over three days next month could enable them to be ranked against a national average for literacy and numeracy for the first time.

Five teenage boys brandishing machetes and baseball bats have left a trail of destruction and injuries in their wake after storming a Western Sydney high school, police say.

Drug testing in schools was unreliable, ineffective, likely to cost billions of dollars and would potentially encourage students to skip classes and take more harmful substances to dodge detection.

The drift of ACT students from public to private schools is continuing, leading to "social segregation" between the haves and the have-nots.

More than 900 secondary schools would have first dibs on federal funding for new computers after an audit found too many of their students had to share terminals.

The Labor Dawkins higher education reforms are a failure and the Rudd Government should ditch a one-size-fits-all approach to universities if it hopes to bring about a real education revolution, according to Australian National University Vice-Chancellor Ian Chubb.

Literacy and numeracy performance among Australian students is no better now than it was in the 1960s and 1970s, according to new research from the Australian National University.

ACT proposes school watchdog
Government wants a wide-ranging independent authority to be established to oversee education standards in the territory

Canberra's school students remain in the nation's top ranks, according to the latest national benchmarks for reading, writing and numeracy.

A WEEK after Queanbeyan High was portrayed as "the roughest school in the state" in a Sydney tabloid, shock and disappointment was still resonating among students and parents, who say it is not true.